[58] Mr. Henry Bore, who has been connected with the Perryan Pen Works for nearly thirty years, has in the press a work dealing principally with the origin of pen making. Mr. Bore’s investigation points to Mr. John Mitchell as the first to introduce the making of pens by means of tools principally if not entirely his invention, but there is little doubt that the use of steel pens by the writing public is due in the first instance to the energy of Mr. James Perry, who was assisted in this work by the late Sir Josiah Mason.
[59] An amalgam of gold is spread on the work to be gilt. The article is then put in an oven and heated till the mercury escapes, leaving the gold behind. Military buttons and ornaments are gilt in this manner.—C. J. W.
[60] Ramsay. Quart. Journal Geol. Society, 1855, p. 191, &c.
[61] Jukes, South Staffordshire Coalfield, 2nd Edition, p. 15.
[62] For a Note by the writer on the distribution of this species in Britain, see Midland Naturalist, Vol. 1, 1878, p. 323.
[63] Those who are interested in the Embryology of these lowly creatures will find a paper upon the subject by Professor E. Ray Lankester, in the “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.” Part I. 1875.
[64] A paper by Professor E. Ray Lankester on the Invaginate planula, or Diploblastic phase of Paludina vivipara, may be found in the “Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.” New Series. No. 58. April, 1875.
[65] For a paper by the writer on this habit in the Mollusca, see “Conchological Journal,” Vol. I., p. 401, et seq. 1874-8.
[66] See the “Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,” New Series, No. 56, October, 1875, for the Embryology of L. stagnalis, by Professor E. Ray Lankester.
[67] For detailed description see “On a group of minerals from Lilleshall, Salop, by C. J. Woodward.” “Quarterly Journal Geological Society,” August, 1883, p. 466.