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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 44., Nov. 1. 'oG. 



10. " Nil desperaiulum Teiiero ducc, et auspice Teucro." 



Ducrow would have substituted himself for Teucer 

 to timid pupils in rough riding. 



11. " Procul omnis absit 



Clamor et ira." 



If written claymore, would have suited a Highland 

 hostel in the olden time. Effigies. 



Stamford. 



Which is Quercusthe Rohur ? ('i""^ S. ii. 309.) — 

 Sir William Hooker and Dr. Arnott, in the sixth 

 edition of The British Flora, designate Q. pedun- 

 culata as Q. Robur a ; and Q. sessiliflora as Q. 

 Robur (3. 



It is not fair upon your general readers to give 

 them long extracts from printed books ; nor would 

 it be consistent with your title, " Notes and 

 Queries," to publish them at length ; but I am 

 glad of an opportunity of conveying information 

 to your correspondents, and at the same time 

 placing on record in your pages several passages 

 whence information on this question of the value 

 of the two species (or varieties, be they which 

 they may) can be derived. I therefore refer him 

 to Evelyn's Silva, edit. 1786, vol. i. pp. 67. et seq.; 

 Selby's British Forest Trees, 1842, pp. 243. 246. 

 et seq. ; Low on Landed Properly, 1844, p. 577. ; 

 Gardeners Chronicle, 1841, pp. 3, 4. 70. 102. 344. 

 735. 812. 843. ; 1842, 5. 723. ; 1844, 53. 335. 450. 

 736.; 1845, 471, 655. 705. 721. 737. 818. 837. 

 856, 857.; 1854, 40.; 1855, 104.696. 728.742, 

 756. 803. 821. 854. ; 1856, 51. 102. 134. 191. 283. 

 405. 454. 518. I would observe also, that the 

 mere noting the single character whether the 

 acorns are stalked or sessile, will not sufEce to 

 distinguish the species or variety. The petioles 

 of the leaves must also be noted, which in Q. 

 pedunculata are almost obsolete, and of a reddish- 

 green colour; while in Q. sessiliflora they are 

 long and of a yellowish-green colour. If this 

 character is not attended to, the tree may prove to 

 be a mere variety or subvariety of Q. pedunculata. 



Geo. E. Frehe. 



Eoydea Hall, Diss. 



I have always understood that the Quei-cus 

 rohur had the minority ; and as far as my ob- 

 servation has gone, in Devonshire, the Quercus 

 sessilis is the far more abundant variety. 



Circumnavigator. 



Death at Will (2"'' S. ii. 147.) — One of the re- 

 corded cases of this kind is that of Jerom Cardan, 

 described by himself in his work De Rerum Va- 

 rietate. Not having the book to refer to, I copy 

 Bayle's quotation of the passage {Diet. " Car- 

 dan ") : 



" Quoties yolo, extrk seasum quasi in extasim 



transeo Sentio dum eam ineo, ac (ut veriiis 



dlcam) fiieio, juxta cor quandam separationem, quasi nnima 

 abscederet, totique corpori res base communicatur, quasi 

 ostiolum quoddam aperiretur. Et initium bujus est a 

 capite, maximfe cerebello : diffunditurque per totam dorsi 

 spinam, vi magna continetur : hocque solum sentio, quod 

 sum eatrh meipsum, magnaque quadam vi paululum me 

 contineo." 



Mr. Couch in his Illustraiions of Instinct refers 

 to this case, and that of Col. Townshend, and 

 another mentioned by St. Augustine, and con- 

 siders this extraordinary faculty of voluntary 

 ecstasy to be analogous to that which he supposes 

 to be exercised by hybernating animals. F. 



Premature Literments (2°'* S. il. 278.) — Some 

 account of Dr. Graham and his assistant. Lady 

 Hamilton, is given in an amusing collection called 

 Professional Anecdotes, or Area of Medical Lite- 

 rature, 3 vols. 12mo., London, vol. i. p. 22, 



H. B., F.R.C.S. 



Warwick. 



Etymology of ''Fellow'' (2°^ S. ii. 285.) — In 

 confirmation of Mr. Bates's derivation of this 

 word, see Cotgrave's French- English Dictionary, 

 London, 1650 : 



" Un genlil fulot. A trimme mate, sweet youth, fine 

 fellow indeed ; a good companion sure ; (ironically, or with 

 an ironical allusion to our word goodfellow'). 



" Falotement. Good-fellow-like." 



Chris. Roberts. 



South Place, Norwood. 



Proportion of Males and Females (2""^ S. ii. 

 268.) — What is the fact as to the census of Eu- 

 rope, I cannot say ; and it is not much to the 

 purpose, as far as the Mormon! te argument for 

 polygamy is concerned. That each man is in- 

 tended by his Maker to have but one wife is 

 pretty clear to all whose eyes are not wilfully 

 blinded ; from the fact, that the birth of males 

 and females is nearly equal. Last week, the 

 Registrar-General gives the return of births in 

 London : boys 828, girls 768. 



I know several sad cases of Mormon delirium 

 in this country. One poor man, whom I have 

 known for years, has been swindled out of nearly 

 all his little property, the savings of an industrious 

 life ; and when he refused to give up the last 

 home he had left, he was, in great form, turned 

 out of the society. His eyes are now open, when 

 he finds himself an old man and destitute. 



A. Holt White. 



Oct. 12. 



Rvfus, or the Red King (2"'^ S. ii. 269.) —This 

 romance was written by Mr. James Gregor 

 Grant, author of Madonna Pia, and other poems. 

 I have seen a presentation copy, in the inscription 

 on which Mr. Grant acknowledges the authorship. 



S. H. 



Edinburgh, 



