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CONTENTS. 



NoTHs I — Page 



Original Correspondence, by Professor 



De Morgan - - - - 57 



" A Sleeveless Errand," by S. "W. Singer S8 

 Shubshadun : Haslam's Serpent and 



Cross, by G. Oc. Wray - - - 59 



Public Records of Ireland, by James F. 



Terguson - - - - - 59 



Pope, and Bathurst the Bookseller - 60 

 The Bells of Bletchley in Buckingham- 

 shire, by the Rev. A. Gatty - - 60 



Minor Notes : — Sense versus Sound 

 — The Founder of the Russian Mon- 

 archy a Warwicksliire Man —Ladies 

 and Wives — Autliorship of Anson's 

 Voyage — Alison's llistory of Europe 61 



QCERIKS: 



The" Annual Register"- - - 62 

 The Destruction of the Exchequer Re- 



cords 

 The Alchemic Term " Tincture ' 



63 



Mtnor Queries: — Tlie Widow Come- 

 walleis— " Monody on the Death of 



Hellebore " — The Lancasliire Song 



Robespierre — Milton, Lines on 



Carmelites in Hereford — Etymology 

 of the Word " Chess" — Ear-piercing 



— Telegraphic System of the Universe 



— Holidays — Quotation wanted — 

 Full Fig — Verb and Nominative Case 



— Epigram on Prayer— Old CoUege 



of Physicians - - - - 64 



Mjnor Queries with Answers : — 

 Robert Pont — Blue Beard — Cocker 



and Walkinghame — Old Phrases 



Mennenius - - - - 66 



Replies : — 



Prynne, Cowley, and Pope, by John 



Bruce - - - - - 67 



Picture at Louvain - - - 69 



Bankers' Cheques, by T.J. Buckton - 70 



Notes on Trees and Flowers, by the 



Rev. W. Denton, &c. - - - 70 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 Photographic Copies of Oil Paintings 



— Photography apjplied to Archaeo- 

 logy— Recovery of Silver from wasted 

 Hypo. — Large and small Lenses - 72 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Mar- 

 riages made up in Heaven — General 

 Braddock — Scottish Nursery Song — 

 " Ovum anguinum " — Door-head In- 

 scription _ Wayside Crosses — Pierre 

 Marteau — Eslie, Ushaw.aud Flass — 

 Lightning and Bells — Captain Jones 



— Archbishop Abbot — Cromwell's 

 Skull — St. Alban's Day — Deadening 

 Glass Windows - - - - 1 72 



Miscellaneous : — 

 Notes on Books, &c. - - - 75 



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