CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| Original English Royal Letters to theGrand Masters of Malta, by WilliamWinthrop | [263] |
| Fata Morgana, by J. Macray | [267] |
| On the Destruction of MonumentalBrasses | [268] |
| Original Letter of the Countess ofBlessington to Sir William Drummond | [268] |
| MINOR NOTES:—The late Judge Talfourd—Authors'Trustee Society—TheOld Clock at Alderley—TheOlympic Plain, &c.—Electric Telegraph—IrishLaw in the EighteenthCentury—Gravestone Inscriptions | [269] |
| Queries:— | |
| Minor Queries:—Paintings of OurSaviour—Heraldic—Dedication ofKemerton Church—Consolato delMare—Consonants in Welsh—Atonement—SirStephen Fox—"Accountof an Expedition to the Interior ofNew Holland"—Darwin on Steam—ScottishFemale Dress—"The Innocents,"a Drama—Waugh of Cumberland—Norton—DeLa Fond—"ButtonCap"—Cobb Family—PrinceCharles' Attendants in Spain—Sack | [270] |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—RalphAshton the Commander—ChristopherHervie—Dannocks—Brassin All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—ImperfectBible—The Poemof "Helga"—"Merryweather'sTempest Prognosticator"—EdwardSpencer's Marriage—Yew-tree atCrowhurst | [272] |
| Replies:— | |
| The Electric Telegraph in 1753 | [274] |
| Factitious Pedigrees: Dixon of Beeston,by Lord Monson, E. P. Shirley, &c. | [275] |
| Licences to Crenellate, by the Rev. W.Sparrow Simpson, &c. | [276] |
| Newspaper Folk Lore, by C. MansfieldIngleby, &c. | [276] |
| French Season Rhymes and WeatherRhymes, by Edgar MacCulloch | [277] |
| Vault Interments: Burial in an ErectPosture: Interment of the Trogloditæ | [278] |
| Do Conjunctions join Propositions only?by H. L. Mansel, &c. | [279] |
| Has Execution by Hanging been survived? | [280] |
| Photographic Correspondence:—AStereoscopic Note—PhotographicQuery—Deepening Collodion Negatives—Cautionto Photographers | [282] |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—ArtesianWells—Prior's Epitaph onHimself—Handwriting—"Beggingthe Question"—When and wheredoes Sunday begin or end?—PreciousStones—Scotch Grievance—"Corporationshave no Souls," &c.—DevereuxBowly—Reversible Names—DuvalFamily, &c. | [283] |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, &c. | [288] |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | [289] |
| Notices to Correspondents | [289] |
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