CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| Stone Pillar Worship | [535] |
| Somersetshire Folk Lore | [536] |
| Irish Records, by James F. Ferguson | [536] |
| Derivation of Curious Botanic Names, and Ancient Italian Kalydor, by Dr. Hughes Fraser Halle | [537] |
| Minor Notes:—Forensic Jocularities—Ridley's University—Marvellous, if true—Progress of the War—Hatherleigh Moor, Devonshire—Cromwellian Gloves—Restall | [538] |
| Queries:— | |
| Sepulchral Monuments | [539] |
| "Es Tu Scolaris" | [540] |
| On a Digest of Critical Readings in Shakespeare, by J. O. Halliwell | [540] |
| Minor Queries:—"Original Poems"—A Bristol Compliment—French or Flemish Arms—Precedence—"Σφιδη"—Print of the Dublin Volunteers—John Ogden—Columbarium in a Church Tower—George Herbert—Apparition which preceded the Fire of London—Holy Thursday Rain-water—Freemasonry | [541] |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—Lewis's "Memoirs of the Duke of Gloucester"—Apocryphal Works—Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Fouché—"The Turks in Europe," and "Austria as It Is"—"Forgive, blest Shade"—"Off with his head," &c.—"Peter Wilkins"—The Barmecides' Feast—Captain | [542] |
| Replies:— | |
| Coleridge's unpublished Manuscripts, by Joseph Henry Green | [543] |
| King James's Irish Army List, 1689 | [544] |
| Barrell's Regiment | [545] |
| Clay Tobacco-pipes, by W. J. Bernhard Smith | [546] |
| Madame de Staël | [546] |
| Cranmer's Martyrdom | [547] |
| Photographic Correspondence:—Difficulties in making soluble Cotton—Light in Cameras—Cameras—Progress of Photography—A Collodion Difficulty—Ferricyanide of Potassium | [548] |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Postage System of the Romans—Epigram on the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini—Power of prophesying before Death—King John—Demoniacal Descent of the Plantagenets—Burial Service Tradition—Paintings of our Saviour—Widdrington Family—Mathew, a Cornish Family—"Πιστις," unde deriv.—Author of "The Whole Duty of Man"—Table-turning—Pedigree to the Time of Alfred—Quotation wanted—"Hic locus odit, amat"—Writings of the Martyr Bradford—Latin Inscription on Lindsey Court-house—Blanco White's Sonnet—"Wise men labour," &c.—Copernicus—Meals, Meols—Byron and Rochefoucauld—Robert Eden—Dates of Maps—Miss Elstob—Corporation Enactments, &c. | [549] |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, &c. | [554] |
| Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | [554] |
| Notices to Correspondents | [555] |
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