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The Folk I/Ore of a Cornish Village : 

 Fairy Mythology, by Thomas Q. 

 Couch - - - - - 457 



Anticipated Inventions, &c. - - 459 



Ben Jonson's " Catiline," by Rev. W. L. 

 Nichols - - - - - 459 



Kotes on Trees and Flowers, by Mac- 

 kenzie Walcott, M. A. - - - 460 



Minor Notes : — Miss Strickland's 

 "Life of Margaret Tudor " — Funeral 

 Exp -nses — Naval Victories — A Cre- 

 dulous Place : Witchcraft, Spiritual 

 Rappings, and Mormonism — Au- 



. thors' Names anagrammatiscd : Fa- 

 ther Paul — Doors of the Theatre open 

 at Four o'Clock — Undesigned Coin- 

 cidence : " Nothing new under the 

 sun" - - - - - 462 



Queries : — 

 Variation in the Editions of the Book 



of Common Prayer, by George Offor - 463 

 Peter de Corbario and Petrus Corba- 

 riensis, by Rev. J. Sansom - - 464 



Minor Queries : — Brass of John Fortey 



— Typography of old numeral Sym- 

 bols — " Ruptuary " — Candles — 

 Lines on gigantic Coal — Meaning of 

 the Word " Donuy," or "Donni" — 

 "Juvenile Essays — Verses on Loss 



of the Blenheim — " Aa-ix-rradiov Spa/^a- 



roc " — Arms of Bishopric of Glou- 

 cester — Lord Washington — Commo- 

 dore in tlie British Navy _ Allan 

 Kamsay— Jonathan Sidnam— Stained 

 Glass Pictures of Virgin, &c. — "De 

 amore Jesus " — Army Estimates, 

 1670-1/60 465 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Dean Sherlock — " The English Phy- 

 sician Enlarged"— Buff— Seraphims 



, and Cherubims — Peace of Aix-la- 

 Chapelle — " Xactometria " - - 466 



Replies : — 

 Erasmus and Allusions to him - - 467 



Chauntry of the Irish Exchequer, by 



James F. Ferguson ... 4S8 

 Calves'-head Club, by Edward Hawkins, 



&c. 470 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 Mr. Crooke's Wax-paper Process — 

 Horizontal Bath for Nitrate of Silver 



— Recovery of Silver from waste Hypo. 



— Removal of Hypo, from Positives - 471 



Replies TO Minor Querifs : — Deaden- 

 ing Glass Windows — Book-plates 



Saints Dorothy and Pior —New Silk- 

 worm — Howard's Monument — 

 Pontypool Waiter — Author of the 

 " Invisible Hand " — Two Brothers of 

 the same Christian Name — Lord 

 Byron and Ariosto — The " Old 

 Week's Preparation"— Prolocutor of 

 Convocation in 1717, &c. - - 471 



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