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Notes : — 



Page 



Burton's " Anatomy of Melancholy," by 



Dr. E. F. Rimbault - - - 191 



" Auuv," its Derivation - - - 192 

 William Lyons, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, 



and Ross - - - - - 192 



Curious Marriage Agreement - - 193 

 Ancient American Languages, by K. 



R. H. Mackenzie - - - 194 



Conduitt and Newton, by Bolton Corney 195 



Minor Notes : — The Music in Middle- 

 ton's Tragi-Comedy of the " Witch " 



— Mr. Macaulay and Sir Archibald 

 Alison in error — " Paid down upon 

 the nail " — Corpulence a Crime — 

 Curious Tender — The Year 1851 



A Significant Hint - - - 198 



Queries : — 



Literary Queries, by the Rev. R. Bing- 

 ham - - - - - 197 



Minor Queries : — Hunter of Pol- 

 mood in Tweed-dale — Dinteville Fa- 

 mily—Eastern Practice of Medicine 



— Sunday — Three Picture Queries — 

 *' Cutting off with a Shilling "— Inman 

 or Ingman Family — Constable of 

 Masham — Fading Ink — Sir Ralph 

 Killigrew - - - - - 198 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Pepys — " Retainers to Seven Shares 

 and a Half " — Madden's "Reflections 

 and Resolutions proper for the Gentle- 

 men of Ireland — King Edward I.'» 

 Arm Elstob, Elizabeth Monu- 

 mental Brasses in London - - 199 



Replies : — 



Rapping no Novelty ; and Table- 

 turning, by Wm. Winthrop, &c. - 200 

 General Whiteloekc, by J. S. Harry.&c. 201 

 "Man proposes, but God disposes," by 



J. W. Thomas, &c. - - - 202 



Napoleon's Spelling, by H. H. Breen - 203 

 Memoirs of Grammont, by W. H. Lam- 



min - - - - - 204 



The Myrtle Bee, by Charles Brown - 205 



Celtic Etymology - - - - 205 



Photographic Correspondence : — Im- 

 provements in the Albumenized Pro- 

 cess — Mr. Crookes on restoring old 

 Collodion— Photographic Queries - 206 



Replies to Minor Queries : — London 

 Fortifications— Burke's Domestic Cor- 

 respondence — Battle of Villers-en- 

 Couche — "I could not love thee, 

 dear, so much " — Sir Charles Cot- 

 terell — Muffins and Crumpets — 

 " Clunk " — Picts' Houses — Tailless 

 Cats — " Cock-and-bull story " — Mar- 

 ket Crosses — " Largesse — Awk- 

 ward, A wart, Await — Morgan Odo- 

 herty — Black Rat — Blue Bells of 

 Scotland— Grammars, &c. for Public 

 Schools — Warville - - - 207 



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Notices to Correspondents 



Vol. IX.— No. 227. 



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