1808.] 
days, have ready for publication, An- 
threpologia; or, Dissertations on the 
Form and Colour of the Person of Man, 
with Incidental Remarks. 
The first folio edition of the plays of 
Shakespeare publishe od in 1628, being 
considered by the commentators seh that 
great dramatic Poet,as by far more au- 
thentic and valuable ‘than the succe ‘eding 
oues, but from its scarcity and conse- 
quent high price, only being accessible 
to few, it “has been thought proper tot re- 
print it; and ac cordingly a copy of this 
edition has been a considerable time ‘in 
the press, and is now ne: arly ready for 
publication. ‘The greatest care has been 
taken to ensure its fidelity, and during the 
time it has been in hand, three separate 
copies of the original edition have been 
constantly consulted, ‘The new edition 
is printed in the common roman type, but 
1a arrangement, orthography and punc- 
tuation, 1s literally and scrupulously 
page for page, throughout, an exact copy 
of the edition of 1623, with all its pecu- 
liarities, nota word being added, altered, 
or omitted. 
The Rey. T. F. Disprn, is about to 
publish a new variorum edition of Sir 
Thomas. More’s Utopia. The text js 
from the first English edition of 1551; 
a book of consulerable rarity, and scarce- 
ly, known. to bibliographers and lexico- 
graghers, Beneath the text, will be co- 
pigus notes, and various readings trom 
the Latin, French, and Envlish, editions, 
inciuding the whole of Dr. Warner’s. 
The Utopia will be preceded by a Bio- 
graphical and Literary Introduction; 
comprehending, among other subjects, 
a_complete Catalogue Raisonné of the 
various editions of the Utopia hitherto 
published. The work will be ornamented 
with some fac-simile wuod cuts. 
A.Paper on Oxalie Acyl, by Dr. T. 
Tomson, of Edinburgh, was lately read 
befor the Royal Society ; containing the 
results of a great variety of experiments 
made to ascertain the relative qualities 
of the conetene parts of this acid, on 
a principle of calculation laid down by 
tae able chemist in the last edition of his 
excellent System of Chemistry. 
Mr. Caristp, the Sec: eh: ary of the 
Socicty of Antiquaries, lately laid before 
that body, some ingenious observations 
on the round painted boards, found in 
some familiesin Staifordslire, and called 
Rondels, Tt is supposed that they are 
of the age of Henry VIL. or VILL. and 
mS that they had been imported from Plan- 
“ ders, and used either as conversation 
“ 
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cards, or wooden platters. The poetical 
stanzas, written in the old English cha- 
racters, supposed of the above ave, are 
chiefly amatory, and some of them ra- 
ther indelicate ; the poetry is generally 
as bad as the sentiments are trifling. 
The figures are also very coarse, and 
painted mostly round the outside Stl the 
verses in the centre. ) 
The following letter, addressed by the 
PresipentT Jerrerson tO Mr. Danten 
EccLeston, of Lancaster, in return for 
the fine Med: alion of Washington, lately 
produced by the latter gentleman, indi- 
cates a degree of attention no less ho- 
nourable to the statesman than the artist : 
SIR, Washington, Nov. 21, 1807. 
I received, on the 22d ult. your favour of 
May 20, beh the medals accompanying it, 
through the channel of my fica and: an= 
cient classmate, Mr. Maury, of Liverpool. 
That our own nation should entertain sen= 
timents of gratitude and reverence for the 
great character who is the subject of your 
medailion is a matter of duty 3 his disin- 
terested and valuanle services to them have 
rendered it so, but such a monument to 
his memory by the member of another come 
munity, proves a zeal for virtue in the abs 
. stract, honourable to him who inscribes it, 
as to him whom it commemorates In ree 
turning you my individual thanks for the 
one destined fur myself, I should perform but 
a part of my dutv, were i-not to-add an as-’ 
surance that this -estimonial in favour of 
the first worthy of our country will be grate= 
ful to the feelings of our estizeng generally. 
i immediately forwarded the two other 
medals, and the letters to Judge Washington, 
with a request that he would hand on one of 
them to Chief Justice Marshall. 
T salute you with great respect, 
Pag JEFFERSON. 
Danie! Eccleston, Esq. Lancaster. 
A complete Mammoth has lately been 
found (though not alive) in a state of 
perfect preservation on the borders of 
the Frozen Ocean. It was ces 
by Schoumacholf, a Tunguose chief, 
the: autumn of 1799, in the midst ars 
rock of ice; but it a not til! the fifth 
year after finding it, that the ice had 
melted sufficiently to disengage the 
Mammoth, when it fell over on its side 
on a bank ‘se sand. Schoumachoff then 
cut oif the tusks, which he bartered for 
goods with a Rissian merchant to the 
value of 50 rubles, (111. 5s.) He then 
left the carcase to. he devoured by bears 
and wolves; but, previously to which, 
he had a rude drawing made of lbs which 
represents 1t with pointed ears, very small 
eyes, horse’s hoofs, and a bristly’ mane, 
extenting 3 Alone the whole of its back. 
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