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SSTotes: — Page 



Palindrome Verses - 343 



Children crving at their Birth - - 343 



Unpublished Letter of Lord Nelson, by 



E. G. Bass - - - - 314 



Polk Lour. :_ Devonshire Superstitions 

 _ Quacks — Burning a Tooth with 



Salt 314 



Parallel Passages, by H. L. Temple, 



Cuthbert Bede, &c. - - - 345 



Minor Notes : — Vallancey's Green 

 Book— Herrings _ Byrou and Roche- 

 foucauld — "Abscond" — Garlands, 

 Broadsheets, &e. — Life-belts _ Tur- 

 key and Russia— "Verbatim et lite- 

 ratim" ----- 347 



Queries : — 



Prints of London before the Great Fire 318 



Battle of Otterburn, by J. S. Warden - 348 



Do Beauvoir Pedigree, by T. R. Potter - 349 



Minor Queries : — Dog-whippers : 

 Frankincense — Achievement in 

 Yorkshire : Lipyeatt Family—" Wae- 

 start" — Rebellion of 1715 — "Athe- 

 nian Sport" — Gutta Percha made 



. soluble — Arms of Anthony Kitchen 



Griesbach Arms — Postage System 



of the Romans — Three Crowns and 

 Sugar-loaf — Helen MacGregor — 

 Francis Grose the Antiquary — " King 

 of Kings : " Bishop Andrews' Ser- 

 mons — Scroope Family — Harrison 

 the Regicide: Lowle —"Chair" or 

 "Cbar" — Aches — Leeming Hall — 



•Caricature ; a Canterbury Tale — Per- 

 petual Curates not represented in 

 Convocation — Dr. Whichcote and 

 Dorothy Jordan — Moral Philosophy 



— Shelley's " Prometheus Unbound " 



Turkish Language - - - 349 



'Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Illustrated Bible of 1527 — Heraldic 

 Query — Richard de Sancto Victorie 



— St. Blase - - - - 352 



Leicester as Ranger of Snowdon • - 353 



Inman Family, by T. Hughes - - 353 



Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by 



Dr. E. F. Rimbault - - - 354 



Hardman's Account of Waterloo - 355 



Churches in " Domesday Book," by 



Wm. Dobson - 355 

 Memoirs of Grammont, by W. H. 



Lammin ----- 356 



Celtic and Latin Languages - - 356 



Photographic Correspondence : Box 



Sawdust for Collodion _ Proportions 

 of Chloridca and Silver — Photo- 

 graphic Copies of Rembrandt — Co- 

 loured Photographs - 358 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Dr. 

 Eleazar Duncon— Christian Names- 

 Abigail —" Begging the question" 



Russian Emperors— Garble— Electric 

 Telegraph— Butler's "Lives of the 

 Saints" — Anticipatory Use of the 

 Cross — The Marquis of Granby , &c. - 359 



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Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 362 

 Notices to Correspondents - - 362 



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