1811.] 
INTELLIGENCE, 
The governors of the British Instituti- 
on have elected his Royal Highness the 
Prince of Wales president of their so- 
ciety, in the room of the late Earl of 
Dartmouth; and the Marauis of Stafford, 
deputy-president. , 
On Monday, the 10th of December, 
being the anniversary of the institution 
of the Royal Academy, a general as- 
sembly of the Academicians was held at 
Somerset-place, when the following gen- 
tiemen were elected officers for the year 
ensuing : 
President —BrensamMin Wesz, esq. 
Visitors—W, Owrn, H. Tuomson, 
J. Nortexens, J. Nortucore, and 
S. Wooprorps, esqrs. 
Succeeded by rotation to the council : 
—A. W. Callcott; J. M. W. Turner; 
J. Soane; and C. Rossi, esqrs. 
And-silver medals were given to the 
following students:—Mr. C. W. Ross, 
for the best drawing of an Academy 
figure; Mr. J. Linnell, for the best 
model of an Academy figure; Mr. 
Louis Vulliamy, for the best architec- 
tural Drawing. 
The academical body has sustained 
the loss of two inembers, J. F. Rigaud, 
and John Richards, esqrs. The former 
was a skilful painter, aed is best known 
by his picture of Samson breaking. his 
Bonds, in the council-room of the Aca- 
demy; and the latter, by his abilities as 
a scene and landscape painter: be was 
at the head of that department in Covent 
Garden ‘Theatre for some years, 
On Monday the 17th ult. Mr. Car. 
Liste, F.R.S. &c. professor of anatomy 
to the Royal Academy, concluded a most 
viilaable course of lectures on the applica 
tion of the science of anatomy to the pur- 
pose of the fine arts: they were in every re- 
spect original in matter and manner; and 
superior to those of either of his predeces- 
sors. The audience was the most re- 
spectable and numerous that ever pro- 
fessor drew within those walls.) We 
jament that our present limits will not 
allow us to give each of the imteresting 
discourses at a length proportioned to its 
interest. 
They were similar in substance to 
those delivered last year by the learned 
professor, immediately after his election ; 
but considerably matured, and delivered 
avith a greater tlow and freedom; the de- 
mronstrations were more perspicuous and 
connected, -the effect of which could now. 
te perceived from the improveménts 
that have been nade in the theatre, and 
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in the disposition of the lights. The first. - 
lecture contained a general and enlarged 
view of the subject, but as it was nearly 
the same as that we gave an abstract of isa 
the Magazine jor January* last, we shall 
not here repeat it. The remainder of 
the lecture consisted of: a demonstration 
of the bones of the skeleton, under the 
general division of the head, trunk, limbs 
or extremities; and which were subdi- 
vided as follows: viz. 
: Cranium 
Head } Stull { nine 
Lower Jaw 4 Teeth 
Spine 
Trunk 2 Ribs 
| Bones of the Pelvis. 
pee 
Scapula 
‘ Brachia 
Upper limb } Gubie 
or extremity } Carpus 
Metacarpus 
Phalanges 
Femur 
Patella 
Lower limb2 2/22 
; arsus 
| Metatarsus 
: ( Phalanges 
ae 
The second lecture was devoted to an 
accurate description 6f the bones of the 
head and trunk, 
The professor took occasion to advise 
the stndents to follow the principle of 
Homer, who, when he intended a hero: 
should die, always took care to wound’ 
him mortally; and he pointed out where 
wounds are mortal, | 
The third lecture displayed the bones 
of the upper and lower extremities. 
The fourth lecture was also devoted te 
the skeleton, and was chiefly a recapitus 
lation of the former, demonstrated upon 
the living subject, 
fn the two concluding lectures, Mr. 
Carlisle ‘described the origin, inser= 
tion, and use, of the superficial musa 
cles; and, after pointing out the cir- 
cumstances which disguise and soften 
their appearance, demonstrated them in 
the last lecture on the living subject, in 
the various and. opposite actions of pul- 
ling and pushing, &c. on a machine 
constructed for the purpose. He con 
cluded, with a general recapitulation of 
the course, to which he added some ex-- 
cellent observations for directing the 
anatomical studies of the student. The 
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aziney vol. 28, page 
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