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No. 226.Saturday, February 25. 1854.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Legends and Superstitions respectingBees[167]
Oxford Jeu d'Esprit[168]
Ansareys in Mount Lebanon[169]
Primers of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth,by the Rev. T. Lathbury[170]
Minor Notes:—Objective and Subjective—LucyWalters, the Duke ofMonmouth's Mother—General Haynau'sCorpse—"Isolated"—Officeof Sexton held by One Family—SententiousDespatches—Reprints Suggested[170]
Queries:—
Pictures from Lord Vane's Collection[171]
Burial-Place of Thurstan, Archbishopof York, by George Fox[172]
Minor Queries:—Admiral Hopson—"Threecats sat," &c.—Herbert's"Church Porch"—Ancient Tenureof Lands—Dramatic Works—DevreuxBowly—"Corruptio optimi," &c.—Lamenther—Sheriffof Somersetshirein 1765—Edward Brerewood—ElizabethSeymour—Longfellow—Fresickand Freswick—Has Execution byHanging been survived?—Maps ofDublin—"The Lounger's CommonplaceBook"—Mount Mill, and theFortifications of London—"Forms ofPublic Meetings"[172]
Minor Queries With Answers:—QueenElizabeth and the Ring—Livesof English Bishops: BishopBurnet—Eden Pedigree and Arms—TheGentleman's Calling—Obs andSols—Fystens or Fifteenths[175]
Replies:—
Hardman's Account of Waterloo[176]
Dates of Births and Deaths of the Pretenders[177]
"Could we with ink," &c., by J. W.Thomas[179]
Mackey's Theory of the Earth by J.Dawson, &c.[179]
Do Conjunctions join Propositions only?by G. Boole[180]
Robert Bloet, by Edward Foss[181]
Photographic Correspondence:—AHint to the Photographic Society—Testfor Nitrate of Silver—ProfessorHunt's Photographic Studies—Waxed-paperPictures—The Double IodideSolution—Dr. Mansell's Process[181]
Replies To Minor Queries:—Buonaparte'sAbdication—Burton Family—Drainageby Machinery—Nattochiisand Calchanti—"One while Ithink," &c.—"Spires 'whose silentfinger points to heaven'"—Dr. EleazarDuncon—"Marriage is such arabble rout"—Cambridge MathematicalQuestions—Reversible MasculineNames—The Man in theMoon—Arms of Richard, King of theRomans—Brothers with the sameChristian Name—Arch-priest in theDiocese of Exeter, &c.[183]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[187]
Notices to Correspondents[187]