NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.
| No. 227. | Saturday, March 4. 1854. |
Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
Notes:— | Page |
Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," by Dr. E. F. Rimbault | |
"Αιων," its Derivation | |
William Lyons, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross | |
Curious Marriage Agreement | |
Ancient American Languages, by K. R. H. Mackenzie | |
Conduitt and Newton, by Bolton Corney | |
Minor Notes:—The Music in Middleton's Tragi-Comedy of the "Witch"—Mr. Macaulay and Sir Archibald Alison in error—"Paid down upon the nail"—Corpulence a Crime—Curious Tender—The Year 1854—A Significant Hint | |
Queries:— | |
Literary Queries, by the Rev. R. Bingham | |
Minor Queries:—Hunter of Polmood in Tweed-dale—Dinteville Family—Eastern Practice of Medicine—Sunday—Three Picture Queries—"Cutting off with a Shilling"—Inman or Ingman Family—Constable of Masham—Fading Ink—Sir Ralph Killigrew | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Pepys—"Retainers to Seven Shares and a Half"—Madden's "Reflections and Resolutions proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland"—King Edward I.'s Arm—Elstob, Elizabeth—Monumental Brasses in London | |
Replies:— | |
Rapping no Novelty: and Table-turning, by Wm. Winthrop, &c. | |
General Whitelocke, by J. S. Harry, &c. | |
"Man proposes, but God disposes," by J. W. Thomas, &c. | |
Napoleon's Spelling, by H. H. Breen | |
Memoirs of Grammont, by W. H. Lammin | |
The Myrtle Bee, by Charles Brown | |
Celtic Etymology | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Improvements in the Albumenized Process—Mr. Crookes on restoring old Collodion—Photographic Queries | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—London Fortifications—Burke's Domestic Correspondence—Battle of Villers-en-Couché—"I could not love thee, dear, so much"—Sir Charles Cotterell—Muffins and Crumpets—"Clunk"—Picts' Houses—Tailless Cats—"Cock-and-bull story"—Market Crosses—"Largesse"—Awkward, Awart, Awalt—Morgan Odoherty—Black Rat—Blue Bells of Scotland—Grammars, &c. for Public Schools—Warville | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents |