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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 270. 



(Vol. v., p. 310.) 



Mb. Strickland, in his letter at the above re- 

 ference, has — 



" Query 11. In the Penny Magazine for Jan. 4, 1834, it 

 is stated that Mr. Eeinagle, the eminent artist, had sent the 

 editor a letter recording that he one day discovered among 

 the Cimelia of the British Museum the head and beak with 

 the short thick legs of a bird which instantly struck him 

 to be those of the Dodo. Mr. R. immediately ran with 

 the relics to Dr. Shaw, who in the end concurred with him 

 in considering the remains as those of the Dodo. Mr. R. 

 has not been able to learn what became of the fragments, 

 but they ought still to be somewhere in the British JIu- 

 seum." 



Me. Steickland asks whether such relics are in 

 the Museum, and adds : " N. B. Of course they 

 have no reference to the well-known Dodo's leg," 

 &c. 



I can now show that Mr. Reinagle's statement 

 was not quite correct, as I have now before me 

 the third volume of Dr. Shaw's Naturalisfs Mis- 

 cellany^ with the coloured figure of a " Dodo's leg," 

 natural size, with the following account : 



" In a preceding Number of the present work I have 

 given a description accompanied by a figure accurately 

 copied from an original picture, said to have been taken 

 from nature, of that most singular bird called the Dodo ; 

 axx animal so very rare, and of an appearance so uncouth, 

 as to have given rise to some doubts as to its real ex- 

 istence, which was also rendered still more suspicious from 

 the supposed want of any remains of the bird itself in the 

 museums of Europe. A very short time since, however, 

 on cursorily examining several miscellaneous articles in 

 one of the apartments of the British Museum, in company 

 with that very ingenious artist Mr. Reinagle, jun., we had 

 the good fortune to discover a leg, which even at the first 

 view appeared of so peculiar an aspect that it instantly 

 •uggested the idea of the bird in question." 



From this extract it is clear that the " well- 

 known leg " was all that was found, and that Dr. 

 Shaw was with Mr. Reinagle when the discovery 

 was made. I am sorry I did not see Me. Strick- 

 land's letter at the time it appeared, that I might 

 have answered his Query at once. 



Dr. Shaw's work is not paged or dated, and 

 I see in his dedication of this volume to the Earl 

 of Ailesbury, he calls it the Jifth^ though it ap- 

 pears in my copy bound up as the third. C. de D. 



EDWARD LAMBE S MURAL TABLET. 



(Vol. X., p. 267.) 



The explanation of this epitaph, given by a 

 correspondent of the GentlemarCs Magazine, 

 seems inadmissible fur the following reasons : — 

 First, the sense, as he makes it out, is far-fetched ; 

 while the phrase, " Lord, let extremities like even 

 life learne," is, to my mind at least, utterly mean- 

 ingless. Secondly, in that explanation the words 



are taken at random from each column, sometimes 

 alternately, and sometimes consecutively. Thirdly, 

 it is clear that the writer of the epitaph aimed at 

 the quaintness, or rather conceit, of placing under 

 the name of " Edward " words beginning with the 

 letter e, and under that of " Lambe " words be- 

 ginning with I; and in each case only single 

 words. The substitution, therefore, of he died for 

 " ledede " must be rejected, both Isecause it in- 

 terrupts the series of words beginning with an Z, 

 and because it proposes two words for a line in- 

 stead of one. 



As the main stumbling-block in the way of a 

 solution is the unintelligible expression ledede, I 

 suggest that we should substitute the word lewde ; 

 and that, instead of intermixing the words of each 

 category, we should read them separately. 



"Edward Lambe 



Ever Lived 



Envied Laudably 



Evill Lord 



Endured Lett 



Extremities .... Like 



Even Life 



Earnestly .... Learne 



Expecting .... Lewde 



Eternal Livers 



Ease Lament." 



The whole would then read thus : 



" Edward, ever envied, evill endured, extremities even 

 (even the extremes of prosperity and adversity) ; ear- 

 nestly expecting eternal ease : — Lambe lived laudably. 

 Lord! lett like life (such a life) learne (teach) lewde 

 livers lament (to lament)." 



This reading, I venture to think, has the merit 

 of simplicity ; and the deviations which it pro- 

 poses from the ordinary sense of the Avords are 

 few, and such only as were imposed on the writer 

 by the peculiar form of the epitaph. 



Henry H. Breen. 



St. Luda. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Talhot V. Laroche. — The great importance attached to 

 the late trial (Talbot v. Laroche), which occupied the 

 attention of the Court of Common Pleas from Monday the 

 18th until Wednesday the 20th December, induces us_ to 

 preserve the following report of it. It is that which 

 appeared in The Times, with the omission of the details of 

 the patent, which we have already given at length {ante, 

 p. 230.) : 



" COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Guildhall, Dec. 20. 

 {Before Lord Chief Justice Jervis and a Special Jury.) 



TALBOT V. LAROCHE. 



" This action, for the infringement of the patent known 

 as the Talbotype, was commenced on Monday morning, 

 and brought to a close this afternoon. 



" Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Grove, and Mr. Field, were coun- 

 sel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Byles, Mr. Willes, 

 and Mr. Hannen for the defendant. 



« It appeared that the plaintiff, who is a gentleman of 

 property, residing at Lay cock Abbey, in Wiltshire, has 



