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of the number of the natives of these places, who were invited by 
our Edward I. and succeeding kings to settle in this country as 
weavers, etc. The English working classes would thus be induced 
to adopt the names these people used. 
Another interesting word is mistletoe. In one of the Anglo- 
Saxon lists it is given, along with the Latin, viscarago musti/tan. 
As regards the prefix, Mr. Earle quotes the German author, Grass- 
=i who baht) the word mistil to mean sfraw/er. But I think 
o be a modification of the Latin zéscum, in Italian véschio. 
fhe Wine? part of the word, namely, tan, is considered to signify 
twig or rod. us in Icelandic, it is mistilteinn. 
It is quite possible that a many of the vernacular names may be 
traced to the Indo-Germanic source, of which Sanskrit, Greek and 
Latin are only dialects. As the emigrations from the north of the 
Himalayas advanced along the more fruitful west, in the course of 
two or more thousand years, the first-comers would be driven 
forward by the succeeding hordes; and thus it is highly probable 
that, as in numerals, so in the names of plants and animals, the 
extreme West of Europe may have many names in common with 
the Sanskrit, but slightly altered. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
We e it is not too late to mention S excellent portrait and Di eat 
notice sf the late Thomas Gough, who did so much for natural hist n West- 
morland, which is given in the fifth part sof. the Wistucien Note. Book and 
Natural History Record, published in March 1889. Gough was born at Middle- 
shaw, Old Hutton, Nov. 30th, 1804, entered the medical profession, and practis 
at Kendal from 1833 to 1854, and after an interval caused by ill-health, again from 
1860 to 1872. He died July 17th, 1880. As a naturalist he was an excellent all- 
round man, but cer ve Bp little. ‘Ihe cope institutions of Kendal owed 
much to him, ast that — reciated his great w was abundantly manifested 
be. the great pain: hae ye en to persua eta m to succeed the eminent 
Prof. A. Sedgwi ick as President of the pres ja Literary and Scientific Institution. 
dees ayes book, co rnpiled by the Rev. aie Seymour St. ee n, is of me sas 
for the pocket, ~~ iia of 165 pages. e plan is that of an English-Foreizn, 
Foreign-English dictionary, and is ak ge into two portions ; the first, consisting 
of 79 pages, is spent o * Larvee a -plants’ and in this section the names 
of the insects printed in shoe aon type, while immediately under each 
species a list of the Steet pee is a ark Pages 81-144 are devoted to ‘ Food- 
plants and pecigi’ prea ~~ ged botanically. The names of the larve 
feeding upon any given plant are ty at a glance. The work is rendered more 
useful to non borane lpidopterists by ra ng the common, as well as the 
scientific, names of the plants printed in both portions of the book, and also in 
the index, which deals with the gen ae rot both insects and plants. A few blank 
yes are added for private notes and memoranda. ihe book may be obtained 
either ion the publishers, Messrs. Wm. Wesley and Son, 28, Essex ee 
Strand: or from the author, 42, Castlewood Road, Stamford Hill, London 
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