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See also:BARRETT, See also:LUCAS (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. BARRETT, See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
WILSON (1846–1904), English actor, manager and playwright, was born in See also:Essex on the 18th of See also:February 1846, the
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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
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
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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End of Article: BARRETT, LUCAS (1837-1862)
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