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St. Augustine on Clairvoyance, by J. E. 



B. Mayor - - - - - Ml 



Edward Gibbon, Father and Son - 511 



Bonn's" Ordericus Vitalis" - - 512 



A Curious Exposition - - - 512 



Minor Notes : — Inscription — Anti- 

 quarian Documents— Bishop Watson's 

 Map of Europe in 1854— Extracts from 

 the Registers of the Bishops of Lincoln 

 — Marston and Erasmus — Puzzle for 

 the Heralds - - - -513 



'Queries: — 

 Sepulchral Monuments - - - 514 



Queries on South's Sermons, by the Rev. 

 W. H. Gunner - - - - 515 



Minor Queries : — Norwich, Kirkpa- 

 triok Collection of MSS. for the History 

 of — Corbet — Initials in Glass Quar- 

 ries — Church Service : Preliminary 

 Texts— The Spinning-machine of the 

 Ancients — View of Dumfries — " To 

 pass the pikes" — May-day Custom — 

 Maydenburi — Richard Fitz-Alan, 

 ninth Earl of Arundel — French 

 Refugees — " Dilamgabendi " — Mr. 

 Plumley— Designation of Works under 

 Review— North-west Passage —Foun- 

 tains — Pope and John Dennis - 515 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 The Irish at the Battle of Crecy— 

 King of the Isle of Wight - Theodore 

 de la Guard— Back — Broom at Mast- 

 head - - - - - 517 



'Ri-: plies : — 



The Advice supposed to have been given 



to Julius III., by B. B. Woodward,&c. MS 



LordRosehill - - - - 519 



Major Andr£ - - - - 520 



The Terminations "-by" and"-ness," 



by Wm. Matthews, &e. - - 522 

 Newspaper Folk Lore, by Edward Pea- 

 cock - - - - - 523 

 Ventilation, by T. J. Buckton - - 524 



3PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE : — 



History of Photographic Discovery — 

 Photographic Cautions— A Query re- 

 specting Collodion — The Ceroleine 

 Process — Mr. Fox Talbot's Patents - 524 



'Replies to Minor Queries : — The 

 Olympic Plain — Encyclopaedia of In- 

 dexes, or Table of Contents _ " One 

 New Year's Day"— Unregistered Pro- 

 verbs — Orange Blossoms — Peculiar 

 Use of the Word " Pure " — Worm in 

 Books — - Chapel Sunday — Bishop 

 Inglis of Nova Scotia — Gutta Percha 

 made soluble — Impe— Bothy— Work 

 on Ants — Jacobite Garters — "The 

 Three Pigeons" — Corporation Enact- 

 ments — The Passion of our Lord 

 dramatised — Hardman's Account of 

 Waterloo — Aristotle— Papyrus— Bell 



at Rouen — Word-minting Cole- 



ridge'6 Christabel, &c. - 526 



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Books and Odd Volumes Wanted - 530 

 Notices to Correspondents - - S30 



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