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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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critical point of the course. Sophocles (Electra, 

 1_ 738— 48.) gives a vivid description of the "ruck" 

 and crash at this " Tattenham corner." 



F. Phillott. 



(Queried. 



DRAWING SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 

 This institution has been recalled to my mind 

 by seeing, from the Life of Sir Martin Shee, that 

 he was educated by it ; and I am desirous of 

 knowing something of the Society itself, and of a 

 plan of education which was proposed by it in 

 1768. I have a book with the following title : — 



" Second Volume of the Instructions given in the 

 Drawing School established by the Dublin Society, pur- 

 suant to their Resolution of the 4th of February, 1768 ; 

 to enable youth to become proficients in the different 

 branches of that art, and to pursue with success geo- 

 graphical, nautical, mechanical, commercial, and mili- 

 tary studies. Under the direction of Joseph Fenn, here- 

 tofore professor of philosophy in the University of Nants." 

 Dublin, 1772, 4to. 



The motto on the frontispiece is " Multi per- 

 transibunt et augebitur scientia," from Bacon (see 

 post, p. 450.) This is probably from Montucla, 

 whose work, published in 1758, was unfairly used, 

 and without mention, by Mr. Fenn, who certainly 

 had the means of doing better. His historical 

 preface is very learned, and somewhat fanciful ; 

 entirely out of place for his proposed readers. 

 The book is a perfect marvel, as intended for a 

 school of drawing, geography, &c. Under the 

 old name of specious arithmetic, certain parts of 

 algebra are given, the parts most foreign to 

 graphical application being most dwelt upon. 

 The handling of the algebraic solution of equa- 

 tions, and of elimination, is far too extensive and 

 minute even for a technical treatise of our day. 

 The mathematician will be amused to hear of a 

 book of 300 pages, which defines integers at page 

 1., and gives the result of elimination between two 

 general equations of the fourth degree at page 

 104. The differential calculus is also used on 

 one occasion, at least, and this in the language of 

 Leibnitz, not of Newton, — a thing unique in the 

 English of the time. And Newton's analytical 

 triangle, as it was then called, is given as a matter 

 of pure algebra, unconnected with geometrical use. 



Can any account be given of this drawing 

 school ; of the history and duration of its course ; 

 and of the other volumes, if any, of this book? 



A. De Morgan. 



The Eev. John Hutton, B.D., vicar of Burton, 

 was author of " A Tour to the Caves in the West 

 Riding of Yorkshire, in a Letter to a Friend," in- 

 serted in West's Guide to the Lakes. In the tenth 

 edition of that work (1812), he is called the late 

 Rev. John Hutton, B.D. It appears that the 



article inserted in the Guide to the Lakes is only 

 part of a work. The following Queries arise : — 



1. Was the author John Hutton, Fellow of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge; B.A. 1763; MA. 

 1766; B.D. 1774? 



2. Was he vicar of Burton, in Westmorland? 



3. What is the title, size, date, and place of 

 publication, of the work from which the article in 

 the Guide to the Lakes is taken? We only know 

 that it was to be had of W. Pennington, Kendal, 

 price Is. Gd. 



4. When did he die ? 



C. II. & Thompson Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



Kippen. — What is the etymology of this term 

 in the, names of places, as Kippenross ? J. P. O. 



Donnybrook burned in 1624. — It has been 

 lately asserted very confidently in an Irish period- 

 ical, that Donnybrook, in the neighbourhood of 

 Dublin, was destroyed by a great fire in 1624. 

 The writer has given neither his name nor his 

 authority ; and I have not any means at hand of 

 ascertaining the truth of his assertion. Being 

 anxious to know whether it really was so, I am 

 induced to trouble you with a Query. Abhba. 



Soldiers' Library. — Can any of your readers 

 give some more particulars and copious informa- 

 tion respecting the library mentioned above than 

 is contained in the following title-page : — Biblio- 

 theca Militum ; or the Soldiers' Public Library, 

 lately erected at Walingford House. 4to. London, 

 1659 ? Civis. 



William Baker, of Clare Hall, has verses in 

 the University collections on the marriage of 

 Geo. III., 1761, and the birth of George, Prince 

 of Wales, 1762. He was afterwards of Bayford- 

 bury, in Hertfordshire, and M.P. for that county. 

 When did he die ? C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Manifold Writers. — Here is an extract from 

 one of quaint old Fuller's Sermons (Grand As- 

 sizes), alluding to an invention which is generally 

 supposed to have originated in modern times : — 



" There is still a Project propounded on the Royall 

 Exchange in London, wherein one offers (if meeting with 

 proportionable encouragement for his paines), so ingenu- 

 ously to contrive the matter, that every Letter written, 

 shall with the same paines of the Writer instantly render 

 a double impression, besides the Originull; each of which 

 Inscript (for Transcript I cannot properly tearme it) 

 shall be as faire and full, as lively and legible as the 

 Originall. Whether this will ever be really effected, or 

 whether it will prove an Abortive, as most Designes of 

 this nature, Time will tell. Sure I am, if performed, it 

 will be very beneficiall for Merchants, who generally 

 keepe Duplicates of their Letters to their Correspondents." 



This is another addition to the already well- 

 filled list of so-called modern inventions which, 

 whether intentionally or accidentally, are nothing 



