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Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc   By:

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Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text.

{341} NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of." CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

No. 233.] SATURDAY, APRIL 15. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES: Page Palindrome Verses 343 Children crying at their Birth 343 Unpublished Letter of Lord Nelson, by E. G. Bass 344

FOLK LORE: Devonshire Superstitions Quacks Burning a Tooth with Salt 344 Parallel Passages, by H. L. Temple, Cuthbert Bede, &c. 345

MINOR NOTES: Vallancey's Green Book Herrings Byron and Rochefoucauld "Abscond" Garlands, Broadsheets, &c. Life belts Turkey and Russia "Verbatim et literatim" 347

QUERIES: Prints of London before the Great Fire 348 Battle of Otterburn, by J. S. Warden 348 De Beauvoir Pedigree, by T. R. Potter 349

MINOR QUERIES: Dog whippers: Frankincense Atchievement in Yorkshire: Lipyeatt Family "Waestart" Rebellion of 1715 "Athenian Sport" Gutta Percha made soluble Arms of Anthony Kitchen Griesbach Arms Postage System of the Romans Three Crowns and Sugar loaf Helen MacGregor Francis Grose the Antiquary "King of Kings:" Bishop Andrews' Sermons Scroope Family Harrison the Regicide: Lowle "Chair" or "Char" Aches Leeming Hall Caricature; a Canterbury Tale Perpetual Curates not represented in Convocation Dr. Whichcote and Dorothy Jordan Moral Philosophy Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" Turkish Language 349

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS: Illustrated Bible of 1527 Heraldic Query Richard de Sancto Victorie St. Blase 352

REPLIES: Leicester as Ranger of Snowdon 353 Inman Family, by T. Hughes 353 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 354 Hardman's Account of Waterloo 355 Churches in "Domesday Book," by Wm. Dobson 355 Memoirs of Grammont, by W. H. Lammin 356 Celtic and Latin Languages 356

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE: Box Sawdust for Collodion Proportions of Chlorides and Silver Photographic Copies of Rembrandt Coloured Photographs 358

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES: Dr. Eleazar Duncon Christian Names Abigail "Begging the question" Russian Emperors Garble Electric Telegraph Butler's "Lives of the Saints" Anticipatory Use of the Cross The Marquis of Granby, &c. 359

MISCELLANEOUS: Books and Odd Volumes wanted 362 Notices to Correspondents 362

Just Published, with ten coloured Engravings, price 5s.,

NOTES ON AQUATIC MICROSCOPIC SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY, selected from the "Microscopic Cabinet." By ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.

Also, in 8vo., pp. 720. plates 24, price 21s., or coloured, 36s.,

A HISTORY OF INFUSORIAL ANIMALCULES, Living and Fossil, containing Descriptions of every species, British and Foreign, the methods of procuring and viewing them, &c., illustrated by numerous Engravings. By ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.

"There is no work extant in which so much valuable information concerning Infusoria (Animalcules) can be found, and every Microscopist should add it to his library." Silliman's Journal.

London: WHITTAKER & CO., Ave Maria Lane... Continue reading book >>


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