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No. 241.Saturday, June 10. 1854.Price Fourpence.
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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Coleridge's unpublished Manuscripts, by Joseph Henry Green[543]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]