628 Queries and Atiswers. 



Geography, without either the etymology or definition. One winter 

 evening I began to make a list from Ure's Dictionary of Chemistry, of what 

 appeared to me " crack-jaw names," and marked them according to 

 Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. Well, I did 

 not proceed far, before I found not a few of those terms not as yet 

 Anglicised. From what Mr. Mallet has, in Vol. IX. p. 122,, said, it 

 would appear that he had supposed I wished the derivation of the words 

 also : no, I could not expect so much. However, I am glad to learn from 

 him, that a knowledge of chemistry can be acquired without the aid of the 

 learned tongues; but I suspect that that gentleman had been well founded 

 in them before he studied chemistry, or, perhaps, learned both at the 

 same time. To an ordinary English scholar, such words as caoutchouc, 

 are " kittle" words to pronounce. I believe we are told that ch from 

 the Greek is generally pronounced hard, as in architecture, and from the 

 Prench it is soft, as in chaise. Supposing these words were not anglicised, 

 how are we to know ? By attending public lectures, where you may pick 

 up these sort of things. Very good : but many must be content to peruse 

 Sir H. Davy, Dr. TJre, &c., at home. Had the latter gentleman added to 

 his Dictionary a vocabulary similar to the one in Ewing's Geography, it 

 would have made his book still more valuable. I am. Sir, yours, &c. 

 r—W. Taylor. Thainston, May 29. 1833. 



Square-blown Bell-glasses.^ Sir, I should feel greatly obliged if you 

 would, through the medium of your Magazine, inform me of the place where 

 I can obtain, and the price of, square-blown glasses, 9 in. or 12 in. in length, 

 and 6 in. or 8 in. wide, for striking Cape heaths or other exotic plants. — 

 Jiivenis. July, 1833. 



Millepedes.^ I should be glad to know the best method of destroying 

 monkey-pees [millepedes ?] in mushroom beds, as they appear to me to eat 

 and destroy the spawn. — Id. 



What are the relative Degrees of Effect on Vegetation of the following, or 

 any additional. Kinds of Manures ? — Sir, The subject of manure is a very 

 curious one, and not well understood. Which is the most powerful 

 manure ? It will be asked ; do you mean on clay, or sand, or loam, or 

 gravel ? The reply is, let us take each, or any, or take all l-and generally; 

 and then, I ask, which is the most powerful manure ? The following list 

 (I wish any one would supply those which are omitted) contains the names 

 of the principal manures now in use. The relative effects have never, as 

 far as I know, been ascertained. If they have, I shall be obliged by inform- 

 ation on the subject ; if they have not, I should be obliged by yom* opinion ; 

 and I hope some skilful person may be induced to make the requisite 

 experiments. 



Lime. Dung of poultry. Refuse of butchers' 



Marl. Sugar skimmings. shops. 



Clay. Refuse of glue. Refuse of candle-ma- 



Vetches, &c. ploughed Shreds of leather. king. 



in. Shreds of rags. Street dirt. 



Horse-dung, fresh. Refuse of soap-boiling. Urine (of man and ani- 



Horse-dung, old. Oil cake. mals). 



Cow-dung, fresh. Fish. Night soil, dry. 



Cow-dung, old. Malt dust. Night soil, not dry. 



Sheeps' dung. Bones. Whale-blubber refuse. 



Pig's dung. Road stuff. 



Now, all these things are known to be useful manures ; yet some are 

 much better than others, and contain in one hundred weight as much 

 efficient matter as some of the others do in perhaps ten hundred weight. 

 Now, a knowledge of their relative powers would not only be useful in 



