Surely this is a mistake, and worthy of a Note? I cannot find the badger mentioned as an amphibious animal in any modern zoology. I certainly have not by me Kerr's Linnæus to refer to, as a verification of Sharon Turner's note on this passage.
CHARLES PASLAM.
Minor Queries Answered.
Royal Registers.
—I have nine volumes of a work published by Bew, Paternoster Row, and which appeared from 1778 to 1784, pretending to give sketches of the characters of public men by his Majesty. Can any of your correspondents inform me who was the writer, and what number of volumes were published?
B.
[This literary curiosity was completed in nine volumes, which are sometimes bound in three. In 1841 Mr. H. G. Bohn advertised a copy with all the names filled up in manuscript, the initials being no doubt sufficiently intelligible at that time. For a notion of the work on its first appearance, see the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xlviii. p. 130.]
Paul Hoste.
—Paul Hoste, a Jesuit, published early in the seventeenth century a small quarto with diagrams on "Breaking the Line," so much discussed, as being first done in Rodney's action. If any one can give me some account of Paul Hoste and his scientific views on naval architecture, the information will be acceptable to
ÆGROTUS.