BARTHOLOMEUS HEINRICH, a learned and amiable German poet and lawyer, was born at Lubeck in 1680. On leaving college he settled at Hamburg, where he practised as a lawyer with such distinguished success, that he was made a senator, and afterwards an aulic counselor, with the title of Count Palatine. After a useful and laborious life he died in 1747. His most ambitious work is his Earthly Contentment in God, a collection of moral poems still highly esteemed in Germany. His translations from foreign poets are very numerous. Among these may be specified his version of Pope's Essay on Man, and his translations from Marini and other Italian poets.

JOSHUA, a celebrated English anatomist, was born in 1761. At a very early age he devoted himself to medical science, and attended the lectures of the most eminent surgeons in London and Paris. As soon as he had completed his studies, he began to teach anatomy and physiology, and continued to do so during forty years of his life, training no fewer than 5000 students, many of whom afterwards became famous in different parts of the world. His museum, which contained specimens not only of human and comparative anatomy, but also of natural history in all its branches, was arranged on a system combined from the various methods of Cuvier, Blumenbach, Linnaeus, and other naturalists, and cost its proprietor about £30,000. Many of his treatises are printed in the Transactions of Brooklyn the various scientific societies of which he was a member. He died suddenly at London, Jan. 10, 1833.