Notices to Correspondents.
A. J. N. (Birmingham). Will this Correspondent let us see the papers respecting John Henderson?
J. C. K. The coin is a penny of Henry III., struck in London.
Mr. Pinkerton's letter has been forwarded to Eirionnach.
F. C. J. We cannot discover that James Murray, the second and last Earl of Annandale, was executed. The Earl joined Montrose after the battle of Kilsyth, and upon that heroic chieftain's defeat retired to England, where he died in 1658. At his death the titles of Annandale, Annand, and Murray of Lochmaben, became extinct, and those of Stormont and Scoon devolved on David, second Lord Balvaird, who married the Earl's widow. See the Earldom of Mansfield in Burke's Peerage.
Sander's History of Shenstone.—Will any reader of "N. & Q." oblige me by lending me a copy of Sander's History of Shenstone? Of course I would pay the carriage and expenses. A letter would find me directed, Cid, Post Office, Stourbridge, Worcestershire.
B. H. A. For the derivation of Czar, see our last Volume, pp. 150. 226. 422.
T. H. On the Lord Mayor being a Privy Councillor, see our Fourth Volume passim.
S. C. (Norwich). The line—
"When Greeks joined Greeks then was the tug of war"
—is from Lee's Alexander the Great.
Piscator will find ample illustration of "ampers and and the character &" in our last Volume (8th), pp. 173. 223. 254. 327. 376. 524.
A. Baden, Jun., will find that his Query respecting the pronunciation of Tea in Queen Anne's time, has already been treated of in the curious discussion on Irish Rhymes in our 6th, 7th, and 8th Volumes.
X. Y. Z. Brother-german is a brother by the father's or mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, or by the mother only.
E. H. McL. Some examples of wage, the singular of wages, are given in Todd's Johnson: consult also Richardson, s. v.
Gallo-Nitrate.—1. We advise you to try the formula given in our former Number (Vol. vii., p. 324.) for positives; 30 grains of nitrate of silver may do, but it is not very active. 2. A glass rod is inappropriate; it works up the albumen into a lather. 3. Towgood's paper will take the albumen very excellently. As we have often said before, when you may obtain certain excellent results from known good formulæ, why waste your time upon uncertainties?
T. D. L. If your bath contains the smallest portion of hypo., or any salt of iron, it is useless. Precipitate the silver with salt; collect and reduce it to its metallic state.
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