—A custom, I believe, still exists in Russia for the mistress of a family to distribute on certain occasions bread or cake to her guests. Some particulars of this custom appeared either in the Globe or the Standard newspaper in 1837 or 1838, during the months of October, November, or December. Having lost the reference to the precise date, and only recollecting that the custom is known by the name of Pirog, I shall feel much obliged to any correspondent of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" if he can supply me with further information on the subject.
R. M. W.
124. Lists of Plants with their Provincial Names.
—In a biography that appeared of Dr. P. Brown in the Anthologia Hibernica for Jan. 7, 1793, we are informed that he prepared for the press a "Fasciculus Plantarum Hibernicarum," enumerating chiefly those growing in the counties of Mayo and Galway, written in Latin, with the English and Irish names of each plant. See also Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, i.—xxx. Where is this MS.?
Can any of your readers refer me to similar lists of plants indigenous to either England or Ireland, in which the provincial names are preserved, with any notes on their use in medicine, or their connexion with the superstitions of the district to which the list refers? Any information on this subject, however slight, will particularly oblige
S. P. H. T.
P.S. I should not be much surprised if the MS. of Dr. P. Brown existed in some of the collectanea in the Library of Trin. Coll. Dub.
125. Print cleaning.
—How should prints be cleaned, so as not to injure the paper?
A. G.