Aug. 25. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



143 



John Green and William Wales, who were suc- 

 cessively the astronomers In Cook's voyages, and 

 he had probably been beaten by them in some 

 competition for places. Whenever he bought a 

 work of either, he wrote some scurrility on the 

 fly-leaf, as I have seen in various instances. But 

 in the Miscellanea Scientifica Curiosa, of which 

 both Wales and Green were editors, he wrote as 

 follows. His copy is in my possession : 



" Miscellanea Scientifica Curiosia Or a Balderdash 

 Miscellany of damn'd Stupid Raggamuffin Methodistical 

 Nonsense and Spuability. By two of the most stupid 

 and most dirty of all possible Fools Rogues and Scoun- 

 drels, viz' John Green A.M. Late Tubthumper now Soul- 

 driver in Hell and William Wales, brasher at Christ's 



Hospital, not only the dh-tiest Scoundrel that God ever 

 made, but The dirtiest rascal that he Possibly could 

 make. Amen." 



I need not say that Green and Wales were both 

 respectable men. On an editorial note Burrow 

 remarks as follows : 



" This stupid, pimping, affected, dull, pert, contempt- 

 ible, vile, fulsome, nauseous, villainous Note, the reading 

 of which is enough to make a person spew their liver up, 

 and to give the devil a vomit ; was written by William 

 Wales." 



I highly approve of the publication of fly-leaves 

 and manuscript notes, when written by men of 

 any note whatever. Remarks made in books are 

 more directly left for printing than manuscript 

 diaries, because executors have not the oppor- 

 tunity, usually, of exercising a discretion. It will 

 thereibre be a good thing if those who write in 

 their books, and thereby leave their opinions for 

 publication (in the genuine sense of the word), 

 are informed that they do so under responsibility. 

 There are not many who carry their freedom so 

 far as Reuben Burrow, but there are some who 

 forget that an addition to a book is not a private 

 note. A. De Morgan. 



Minav ^attS, 



A Green Rose. — 



" At an exhibition of flowers which took place at the 

 beginning of this month, at Mannheim, a prize was 

 awarded for a very extraordinary floral curiositj' — a 

 green rose. The petals of the flower were green, and had 

 somewhat the form of leaves." — Galignani's Messenger, 

 May 14, 1855. 



w. w. 



Malta. 



The Tippet. — Several portions of the dress of 

 the learned professions were at first designed for 

 use ; such as the pouch for drugs on the gown of 

 a D. Med. ; the patch or coif of a serjeant of law 

 which concealed the tonsure ; the lamb-skin on a 

 determining B.A.'s hood in imitation of the toga 

 Candida of the Roman ; and in the same way the 

 tippet on a barrister's gown was a wallet to carry 



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his breviates in ; and probably that on the proctor's 

 and pro-proctor's gown were for carrying papers 

 when he attended the University Court, as a sort 

 of academical sabretache. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Almanacs. — Old almanacs have been recently 

 mentioned in "N. & Q." as of historical value. 

 One would think, judging from the following 

 newspaper cutting, that they were so esteemed. oa 

 this side of the water : ;•!;! 



" Thk Sale of the Ingkaham Libraky. — The grkii' 

 event of the week, in the literary world, has been the sale 

 of the library of the late Edward D. Ingraham. As Mr. 

 Ingraham was known to be indefatigable in the pursuit of 

 literary oddities, the bringing of his collection to the 

 hammer created no little excitement, and the circum- 

 stance was turned to a good account in the sale of his 

 books at auction. The sale occupied the greater part of 

 the week, being continued from day to day. Yesterday, 

 among the works sold was one entitled 'A Historical 

 Sketch of the Continental Bills of Credit, from 1775 to 

 1781, with Specimens thereof. By Samuel Breck, Esq.' 

 This interesting work was transcribed by Mr. Ingraham 

 from the author's MS., and many curious notes added to 

 the original work. It was purchased for 105 dollars by 

 Mr. Mitchell, of this city. 



" Some of the books sold during the week brought 

 prices rather calculated to astonish. Among them was 

 an original 'Poor Richard's Almanac,' which sold for 

 jifly-twQ dollars. We have a file of those almanacs which 

 we would be willing to part with at half that rate." 



S. H. 



Philadelphia. 



Meaning of " Codds."— At p. 333. of The New- 

 comes, Mr. Thackeray writes, respecting the " Poor 

 Brethren " of the Charterhouse, " the Cistercian 

 lads call these old gentlemen codds, I know not 

 wherefore." I always understood this title to be 

 an abbreviation of " codger." They were old 

 codgers in the boys' estimation ; and " Cod Curio," 

 a cotemporary of Mr. Thackeray as well as my- 

 self, was a funny old man, who ornamented his 

 little room with curiosities that were more absurd 

 than valuable. Alfred Gatty. 



Epigram. — The following lines, addressed by 

 I know not whom to a lady v/ho was in the habit 

 of keeping five-pound notes in her Bible, thinking, 

 I suppose, that there they would be secure from 

 pillage, were repeated to me the other day by an 

 octogenarian friend : 



" Your Bible, Madam, teems with wealth. 

 Within the leaves it floats ; 

 Delightful is the sacred text, 

 But heavenly are the notes." 



E. H. A. 

 Places in the Crimea. — Koslof is now called 

 Eupatoria, a name given in the time of Ca- 

 tharine II., the Eupatoria of Strabo being on the 

 opposite or south-eastern coast. So the Sebas- 

 topol of Arrian was in Cappadocian Pontus on 

 the south shore of the Euxine. Inkerman is the 



