Henry, R.A.,** the most eminent enamel painter of Great Britain, was born at Truro in 1755. He was much employed by London jewellers for small designs in enamel, before his merits as an artist were well known to the public. In 1800 the beauty of his pieces attracted the notice of the Royal Academy, of which he was then admitted as an associate, and in 1811 as an academician. From the beginning of this century until 1831, he executed many beautiful pieces of much larger size than had been attempted before in this country: among these his 85 portraits of the time of Queen Elizabeth, of different sizes, from 5 by 4, to 13 by 8 inches, are most admired. They were disposed of by public sale after his death, which took place in 1834. His "Bacchus and Ariadne," after Titian, painted on a plate, brought the great price of 2200 guineas.

**BONES.** See Anatomy and Index.

**Boxes of the Dead.** Different usages and ceremonies relating to the bones of the dead have obtained in different ages; as gathering them from the funeral pile, washing, anointing, and depositing them in urns, &c. Among the ancients, the bones of travellers and soldiers dying in foreign countries were brought home to be buried; but during the Italic war this was prohibited by the senate.

The Romans acknowledged a deity, called *Ossipanga*, or *Ossipangia*, to whom the care of the induration and knitting of the human bones was committed, and who on that account was invoked by pregnant women.