CAVALLUCCI ed a very correct taste in the execution of vocal music. He possessed also his country's aptitude for the painter's art; and he was particularly happy in cutting out striking likenesses of his acquaintances in paper. The principal object of his life was to collect and arrange the labours of others; and he was so much in the habit of collecting, that he had for many years made it his amusement to collect specimens of the handwriting of eminent persons, which he had extended to an immense number of individuals of different ages and countries. But he was by no means incapable of copying from the great book of nature; and he made, in the course of his various researches, a number of original experiments, well calculated to illustrate particular questions relating to the sciences which he cultivated. In the latter part of his life he had discontinued his attendance at the meetings of the Royal Society, as well as his contributions to the Transactions; but he was in the habit of frequenting some other literary conversations, at which he constantly met some of his oldest and kindest friends. A short time before his last illness, he was engaged in some experiments on M. De Luc's perpetual pile of paper, and on the electricity of different specimens of crystals; but he does not appear to have obtained any new results from these investigations. He died at his residence in Wells Street, on the 26th of December 1809, and was buried in St. Pancras church-yard, near the tomb of General Paoli, with whom he had long been on terms of the greatest intimacy. (Literary Memoirs of Living Authors; Dance's Collection of Portraits; Gentleman's Magazine, 1809; Supplement to the Monthly Magazine, 1810, p. 86; Aikin's General Biography, vol. x.; Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary, vol. vii.) (T. y.)