ve ey) 
1805. | 
which could fcarcely have been wholly pre- 
pared by the fcanty vegetation and foliage 
of the preceding year. 
As inferences from his experiments, Mr. 
Knight concludes that the fluid which en- 
ters into and circulates through the leaves’ 
of plants, as the blcod through the lungs 
of animals, confifts of a mixture of the 
true fap or blood of the plant, with matter 
more recently -abforbed, and lefs perteétly 
affimilated. 
fap undergoes a confiderable change on its 
mixture with the alcending aqueous fap ; 
and that the faccharine matter exilting in 
the afcending fap, is net wholly derived 
from the fluid which had circulated 
through the leaf. in the preceding year, 
but that it is generated by a procefs fimi- 
dar to that of the germination of feeds, and 
Monthly Retrofpe of the Fine Arts. 
It is probable that the true~ 
that the fame procefs is always. going for’ 
ward during the {pring and fummer, as: 
long as the tree continues to generate new, 
organs, 
fummer, the true fap fimply accumulates ia 
the alburnum, and thas adds te the {peci~ 
fic gravity of winter-felled wood, and in- 
creafes the quantity of its extraétive matters 
And he adds ‘ff fabfequent experiments 
prove that the true fap defcends througty. 
the alburnum,”’ as he fufpects to be the 
cafey ‘it will be ealy to point out the 
caufe why trees continue to vegetate after 
all communication between the leaves and 
roots, through the bark, has been inter- 
cepted ; and why fome portion of alburnoug 
matter is in the trees generated below ine 
cifion through the bark,’” : 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
The Loan of all new Prints and Communications of Articles.of Intelligence are requefieds 
Carolus Linnccus in bis Lapland Drefs. Hoffman. 
pinxt. H, King foury feulpt. Publifhed Fan. 
I, 1805. 
HE very high reputation of this 
dt great and criginal genius mult render 
this a very interefting and popular print ; 
the habit is fo peculiar, that it almoft be- 
comes grotefque ; it, however, effectually 
feparates the portrait from every other en- 
gravipg ancient or modern ; and it is ex- 
tremely well engraved in the mezzotinto. 
£be Earl of Darlington and his Fox-bounds. B. 
Marfhell pinxt.. F. Dean feulpt. April 5, 
1805. 
Another very fingular portrait. The 
noble Earl is equipped at all points likea 
hunt{man, and it muft, be admitted that 
he appears to fill the charaéter with eale 
and propriety. The hounds are. well 
drawn. The engraving is a mixture of 
chalk and ftroke, and has a ftrong effect. 
The Begearss Vir, Owen, A. pinxt. Charles 
Turner, fculpt. 
‘‘ Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor.” 
This is copied from an admirable pic- 
ture in’ the poffefiion of R. Heathcote, 
Efg. and publifhed by the engraver. 
though the general eff: is fomewhat 
dafhing and yiolent, it comes in the very 
Gril clafs. 
It 
is finely engraved in mezzotinto, and, - 
A. Hunter, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Societise 
of London and Edinburgh, Painted and ex- 
graved by F.R. Smith. ce 
A mezzotinto print in the ufual judi- 
cious ftyle of this artitt. 
Samuel Arhawes, Efq. Painted, engraved, and 
publifhed, by F. R. Smith, 5th March, 1805. 
To the portrait from which this is co-. 
pied, we gave, in a former Retrofpett, 
the.praife it merited. 
Smith has manifelted a very fuperior 
tafte and judgment ; and it certainly may 
be clafled among the very fir and finett 
mezzotinto portraits that ever was engrav- 
ed, and it will bear a comparifon with - 
any of them. : 
Meflis. Boydell have juft publithed the 
Supplementary Number to the large 
Prints of Shakefpeare, which entirely 
completes that great work. In this Nem- 
ber are contained, 
4.4 Midfummer-Night’s Dicam3 painted by 
Fufeli, and engraved by Ryder. 
2. The Chriffening of Queen Ehmabeth 5 painted 
by Mr. Peters, engraved by Cabyn, 
3+, Imogen entering the Cave; painted by Mr, 
Wefiall, engravid by Gaugain. | 
4. Defdemona in Bed 5 panied by Mr. Boydell, 
engraved by Leney. 
§. Shakejpeare nurfed by Tragedy and Comedy 3 
painted by Mr. Romney, engraved by B. Smith. 
Ty 
In the print, Mr. 
But towards the conclufion of 
Befides the above Shekefpeare fubjects, 
this Number contains a whole length Por- 
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