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NoTKs ; — Page 

 Arithmetical Notes, No. III., by Pro- 

 fessor De Morgan - - - 1 1 7 

 " Tlie Menagiana " - - - 118 

 Belgian Sports and Pastimes, by Henry 



Daveney - - - - - 118 



Thomas Tusser's Will, by G. Blencowe lia 

 Military Bands in the last Century, by 



G. Blencowe - - - - 121 



Monumental Brasses, by W. R. Crabbe 121 



Minor Notes : —Reference —Summer 

 Climate of the Crimea — Simon Wad- 

 loe — Astounding Geographical Facts 

 — Historical Parallels — Shakspeare 

 and his Descendants (?) — " "Win of 

 ape" 122 



Queries ; — 



NamhyPamby - - . - 123 



Harold, his Wife and Family, by E. 

 Weit - - - . - 124 



Minor Qubbies : —Executors of Wills 



— Picture by Wilson-" Maud," by 

 Alfred Tennyson —Duchess of Marl- 

 borough — Roman Catholic Bishop- 

 rics— Bardon Hill, Leicestershire — 

 Length of Miles — Staniforth Family 



— Order of St. John of Jerusalem — 

 Palindromon — A Book-post Query _ 

 William Booth, of Witton, near Bir- 

 mingham — " ft'aringtou," " ffolUott," 

 &c. — " Philosophy of Societies " — 

 St. Jerome— Piazzetta and Cattini — 



" Coney Gore " - - - - 124 



Minor Qufries with Answers : — 

 Mrs. P. Llewlyn's Hymns — Oc- 

 tagonal Fonts — Sir Samuel Shep- 

 herd — History of Captain Thomas 

 Stukeley — "Homo naturse minister 

 etmterprea" - - - - 126 



Bbplibs : — 



" MUnchhansen's Travels," by John 



Macray, &c. - - - - 127 



Apparition of " The White Lady," by 



C. Mansfield Ingleby - - - 129 



Health of Tobacco Manufacturers, by 



J. C. Hotten - - - - 129 



Inscriptions on Bells, by Mackenzie 



Walcott, M.A.,&c. - - - 130 



Fhotooraphic Correspondence : 



Gutta-percha Baths —Deepening Col- 

 lodion Negatives — Old Collodion - 131 



Eeplies to Minor Qderies : _ Ri- 

 chard Kent, Esq. — Simile of a Wo- 

 man to the Moon — Bells of Cast 

 Steel — Wines of the Ancients — A 

 oermon on Noses : Shakspeare's Auto- 

 SJ'^P'? — BeatlngtheBounds_M ethod 

 ot taking out Ink _ Absorbent Paper 

 — Stained Glass Picture of Blessed 

 Virsjin - Sir Cloudesley Shovel _ The 

 hphinx _ Knights Hospitallers in 

 Ireland, &c. - - . . 131 



MlSCELLANEODS : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - . - 136 



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