—I believe that there is no mistake as supposed in the inscription on the Geo. III. shilling. The double "T" is expressive of the plural "Britt." for "Britanniarum". Have we not many similar instances, e. g. "codd." for "codices," "libb." for "libri;" or, one of every-day occurrence, "pp." for "pages?"
W. M. N.
Fossil Elk of Ireland (Vol. ii., p. 494.; Vol. iii., pp. 26. 121. 212.).
—W. R. C. (a Subscriber) will find some very interesting accounts of this creature in Boate and Molyneux's Natural History of Ireland, p. 137.; and in an excellent paper by Dr. Cane, in the Transactions of the Kilkenny Archæological Society for the Year 1850, where several works containing accounts of the animal are referred to. An interesting memoir by Dr. Hibbert on the discovery of the Megaceros Hibernicus, or fossil elk, in the Isle of Man, will be found in the fifth number of the Edinburgh Journal of Science, published in 1826.[1]
[1] Errata.—Query, should not the word "Rochenon," in Vol. i., p. 380. col. 1., be "Rosbercon?" and should not "D. H. M‛Carthy," in Vol. ii., p. 348. col. 1., be "D. F. M‛Carthy" (Denis Florence M‛Carthy)? Such errors, however trifling they may now appear, may hereafter confuse.
R. H.
"In Time the Bull," &c. (Vol. iii., p. 388.).
—The quotation—
"In time the bull is brought to bear the yoke,"
seems to be from Ovid, Tristia, iv. 6. 1.: