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LUCAS BARRETT (1837-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCAS See also:BARRETT (1837-1862)  , See also:English naturalist and geologist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 14th of See also:November 1837, and educated at University See also:College school and at Ebersdorf . In 1855 he accompanied R . McAndrew on a dredging excursion from the Shetlands to See also:Norway and beyond the See also:Arctic Circle; and subsequently made other cruises to See also:Greenland and to the See also:coast of See also:Spain, . These expeditions laid the See also:foundations of an extensive knowledge of the See also:distribution of marine See also:life . In 1855 he was engaged by See also:Sedgwick to assist in the Woodwardian Museum at See also:Cambridge, and during the following three years he aided the See also:professor by delivering lectures . He discovered bones of birds in the Cambridge See also:Greensand, and he also prepared a See also:geological See also:map of Cambridge on the one-See also:inch See also:Ordnance map . In 1859, when twenty-two years of See also:age, he was appointed director of the Geological Survey of See also:Jamaica .. He there determined the Cretaceous age of certain rocks which contained Hippurites, the new genus Barrettia being named after him by S, P . See also:Woodward; he also obtained many fossils from the See also:Miocene and newer strata . He was drowned at the See also:early age of twenty-five, on the 18th of See also:December 1862, while investigating the See also:sea-bottom off See also:Kingston, Jamaica . Obituary by S . P .

Woodward in Geologist (Feb . 1863), p . 6o . See also:

BARRETT, See also:WILSON (1846–1904), English actor, manager and playwright, was born in See also:Essex on the 18th of See also:February 1846, the 434 See also:manners and customs of the See also:Netherlands,' we find the following allusion:—" The diversions of the Dutch differ not much from those of the English, who seem to have borrowed from them the neatness of their drinking booths, skittle and other grounds . . which See also:form the amusements of the See also:middle ranks, not to mention their See also:hand-See also:organs and other musical inventions." An See also:illustration of the hand-See also:organ of that See also:period is given in See also:Knight's London,2 being one of a collection of See also:street views published by Dayes in 1789 . In a description of See also:Bartholomew See also:Fair, as held at the beginning of the 18th See also:century, is a further reference to the Dutch origin of the See also:barrel-organ:—" A See also:band at the See also:west-end of the See also:town, well known for playing on See also:winter evenings before See also:Spring See also:Garden See also:Coffee See also:House, opposite Wigley's See also:great See also:exhibition See also:room, consisted of a See also:double See also:drum, a Dutch organ, the See also:tambourine, See also:violin, pipes and the See also:Turkish jingle used in the See also:army . This band was generally hired at one of the booths of the fair." 3 Mr See also:Thomas See also:Brown relates that one Mr See also:Stephens, a Poultry author, proposed to See also:parliament for any one that should presume to keep an organ in a Publick House to be fined X20 and made incapable of being an See also:ale-See also:draper for the future.4 In 1737 See also:Horace See also:Walpole writes':—" I am now in pursuit of getting the finest piece of See also:music that ever was heard;, it is a thing that will See also:play eight tunes . See also:Handel and all the great musicians say that it is beyond anything they can do, and this may be performed by the most ignorant See also:person, and when you are weary of those eight tunes, you may have them changed for any other that you like." . The organ was put in a lottery and fetched £1000 . There was a very small barrel-organ in use during the 18th and 19th centuries, known as the See also:bird-organ (Fr. serinette, turlutaine, merline) . One of these now in the collection of the See also:Brussels See also:Conservatoire is described by V . C .

Mahillon.6 The See also:

instrument is in the form of a See also:book, on the back of which is the See also:title " Le See also:chant See also:des oiseaux, Tome vi." There are ten See also:pewter stopped pipes giving the See also:scale of G with the addition of Fb and A two octaves higher . The whole instrument See also:measures approximately S X 51X 24in. and plays eight tunes . See also:Mozart wrote an See also:Andante 7 for a small barrel-organ . For an illustration of the construction of the barrel-organ during the 18th century, consult P . M . D . J . Engramelle, La Tonotechnie ou See also:Part de noter See also:les cylindres et tout ce qua est susceptible de notage dans les See also:instruments de concerts mechaniques (See also:Paris, 1775), with engravings (not in the See also:British Museum) ; and for a clear See also:diagram of the See also:modern instrument the See also:article on " Automatic Appliances connected with Music," by Dr E . J . See also:Hopkins, in See also:Grove's See also:Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. i . (1904), p . 134 .

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