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from puder, powder; and thus the name of our dog will serve to keep 

 in mind, for the benefit of future generations, the memory of the 

 "good old time" when wigs and hair-powder were indispensable. 



Pug. — This word seems to be the Anglo-Saxon and Swedish piga, 

 Danish pige (a girl, whence our name Peggy), Spanish poco, Latin 

 paucus (few), and perhaps the Greek nvyixouog, pigmy. The name was 

 first applied to the monkey, as resembling a pigmy man, and was thus 

 transferred to a variety of dog whose flat nose somewhat reminded one 

 of a monkey. Now, there are many words which exhibit what may 

 be called a pregnant etymology. They may be referred, in the first 

 place, to one root; but they are also influenced by other roots, of 

 similar sound but of totally dissimilar meaning. It is probable that 

 our present word is a case of this nature. Pug, as applied to a mon- 

 key, may have a secondary reference to the name of Puck, the mis- 

 chievous elf of fairy tales, whose name is akin to bogle, bug, bugbear, 

 and other words which are taken from a root denoting terror. 



Spaniel is corrupted from the French espagneul, Latin hispaniolus, 

 the breed being originally Spanish. Terrier is from the Latin terra- 

 rius, " earth-dog," " from its subterranean employ," says Pennant. 



Lastly, a mongrel is a dog of mixed breed, from the Anglo-Saxon 

 mengan, to mix ; German, mengen ; our own mingle. 



(To he continued.) 



P. H. Newnham. 

 Guildford. 



On the Aquarium; being the Substance of a Discourse delivered by 

 Robert Warington, Esq., at the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain, on Friday, March 27, 1857. 



The speaker opened the evening's demonstration by stating that 

 he had immediately responded to the invitation of the Managers of 

 the Royal Institution to deliver this discourse, on what they had been 

 pleased to call his "own subject," from the feeling that, as the origi- 

 nator of the aquarium, he was in duty bound to afford to all those 

 who had taken up this " new pleasure " every assistance, from the 

 results of his own experience, that lay in his power, in order to ren- 

 der the undertaking more easy and pleasurable ; and for this purpose 

 he proposed to lay before his audience, as far as was practicable, a 

 demonstration of the principles on which it was founded, particularly 

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