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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 164. 



Edwin and Emma. Taylor. London, 1776. 



Watson's New Botanist's Guidb. 



Elegiac Epistles on the Calamities of Love and War ; in- 

 cluding a Genuine Description of tlie Tragical Engagements 

 between His Majesty's Sliips the Serapis and Countess of Scar- 

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 I'aul Jones, on the 23rd September, 1779, 8vo., 1781. 



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p. R. (Belgravia.) The lines are spoken by Macbeth (Act V. 

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Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 

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H. H. J. The article was certainly intended for insertion : and 

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Rev. R. H. Hoare will see that his kind communication has 

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Mr. AHCHEH'i letter on the subject of his claim to be the first who 

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The Chemical and Visual Foci op Achromatic Lenses. We 

 are indebted to Mr. A. C. Wilson fSr reminding us that there 

 are two very ingenious instruments, — that of M. Claudet {de- 

 scribed before the Royal Society), and that of Mr. Knight, for 

 determining the difference between them ; which may be cheaply 

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E. J. (Southsea.) We cannot trace the communication to which 

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 us further particulars, or another copy of itf 



Photography. We have to apologise to many Correspondents 

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