1804.] 
lin, who, m his work entitled Mufeum 
-Schapflinianum, has given a defcription of 
the cabinet bequeathed to the city of Straf- 
burg by the celebrated Schoepflin. 
COLLECTORS. 
This ‘name is beftowed on thofe who 
have united in one body different monu- 
ments ufually tending to the fame aim ; 
fuch as Ficorini, in the cafe of the f{cenic 
mafks, and Paflery in that of the antique 
lamps; or on different fubjeéts, as has 
been done by Caylus. hele antiquaries 
have deicribed and engraved the objects 
which ornamented the cabinets of diffe- 
rent individuals, and which were in many 
inftances depofited there by men who 
braved the dangers attendant on diitant 
travels, in their fearch after antique mo- 
numents. 
Thofe who were the firft to engage in 
thefe travels had no other aim than the 
ardent thirft of riches, and the ambition 
of conquefts. They almoft invariably 
brought back fome of the objeéts which 
had ftruck them moft forcibly ; but did 
“not propofe to themielves, as their fole 
aim, the refearch and obfervation of the 
works of art. 
After the revival of Jearning, men 
braved the fatigues and perils of long 
voyages, to add new knowledge to that 
which had been already acquired. The 
“moft ardent of thefe travellers were the 
naturalifts and antiquaries. In thefe two 
claffes of men of letters this paflion is 
commonly carried toan extreme. They are 
as greedy in feeking inftru€tion as others 
are in acquiring riches; they are not re- 
ftrained by any inconvenience, difcon- 
certed by any difappointment, nor flopped 
by any peril. Along catalogue of names 
of men might be given, who have endured 
a thoufand calamities, and even fuffered 
death, for the fciences. To how many 
torments have feveral of the antiquaries, 
who vifited Egypt.and ancient Greece, to 
obferve the monuments, been fubjeéted ! 
The celebrated Vaillant was made pri- 
foner by the Algerines, and fubjected for 
feveral months to a rigid flavery. At 
length he fet out for France with about 
twenty of the moft valuable and unpub- 
lifhed gold medals he had contrived to 
preterve; but, in the midft of the paflage, 
was menac-d by a new danger, by a pri- 
vateer which gained onhis veffel. Infen- 
fible to his own fituation, he dreaded no- 
thing but the lofs of his medals ; and, un- 
der this embarraffment, came to the refo- 
lution to {wallow them. The privateer 
and the merchartman were feparated by a 
tempeft, which caft the lattsr on the cvat 
Introduétion to the Study of Archeology. 
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of France. The veffel was loft; but 
Vaillant and fome of the crew were faved 
in the boat. He now became fenfible of 
his danger, and confulted feveral medical 
men, who could not agree as to the remedy, 
While they were in doubt, nature, thé 
beft of all phyficians, interfered, and re- 
flored the medals to our antiquary. What 
was the courfe he took? He had (carcely 
publithed his new treafures, when he fet 
out to revifit Egypt and Perfia. Many 
fimilar examples might be given; but this 
one will fuffice to fhow the incredible avi- 
dity after knowledge which takes poffef- 
fon of the travelling antiquaries. 
The moft celebrated trave's which have 
been publifhed on antiquities, are thofe of 
Chardin and Pocock, in Perfia; of Nie- 
buhr in Arabia; of Norden in Egypt; of 
Le Roi, Stuart, and Choiffeul-Gouffer 
in Greece; of Saint-Non in Italy, &c. 
&c. An indication of almoft all thefe 
travels may be found in the Magazine of 
Travels by Struve, and in the Catalogue 
of the library of Courtanvaux. : 
Nothing more now remains than to 
fpeak of the 
ICONOGRAPHS, MONOGRAPHS, 
MISCELLANIES. 
The Inconographs are thofe who have 
publfhed the figures of monuments, but 
without a detailed explanation ; and the 
monographs, thofe who have given {mall 
feparate treatifes on certain monuments. 
The defcription of the agate of Tiberius, 
by Albert Rubens3 that of the feal of 
Michael Angelo, by Baudelot; and the 
one given by me in one of the laft numbers 
of the Magazin Encyclopédique, on an 
engiaving reprefenting Diana Lochia, are 
monographs. 
The mifcellanies are collections on dif- 
The moft 
important of them are the great academi- 
cal colJeétions, the principal of which, 
on the fubject of antiquities, are the Me- 
moirs of the Academy of Belles-lettres of 
Paris ; thofe of the Academy of Cortona ; 
of the Antiquarian Society of London; 
of the Society of Gottingen, &c. 
aS 
To the Editor of the Monikly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the chapter in Dr. Darwin’s Phyto- 
logia, which treats of the convertion 
of the leat-buds-of thofe fruit-trees, which 
produce abundance of healthy luxuriant 
wood, but littie bloffom, into flower-buds, 
the doétor gives feveral dire&tions for 
caufing this defirable change; {uch as 
binding the two vigorous ftems with wire 
ox itring, breaking fome of the branches 
Qq2 haf 
AND 
