[947] W. W. Skeat, Etymol. Dict., under “Yew.”
[948] O. Schrader, Prehist. Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples, trans. J. B. Jevons, 1890, pp. 226, 274-5. See also V. Hehn, Wanderings of Plants and Animals, ed. J. S. Stallybrass, 1885, pp. 407-8.
[949] A. de Candolle, quoted by Lowe, op. cit., p. 46. The exact source is not given, but one may infer, from the context, that the rule is given in Notice sur la Longévité des Arbes, 1831. I have not seen this work, as it is not in the British Museum.
[950] Quoted by Lowe, Yew-Trees, pp. 45-6.
[951] Science Gossip, XXIV. (1888), p. 167. De Candolle’s equation of the measurements of the largest yew at Fountains Abbey is consistent only on the basis of 12 lines to the inch (Physiologie Végétale, t. II. p. 1001).
[952] G. A. Hansard, Book of Archery, 1840, p. 328.
[953] Sir R. Christison, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., XIX. p. 11. Cited by Lowe: this volume is not in the British Museum.
[954] Lowe, Yew-Trees, p. 57.
[955] A. J. Harrison, in Naturalists’ Journal, 1905, p. 200. See also H. Marshall Ward, Timber, and some of its Diseases, 1889, pp. 44-7. S. H. Vines, Students’ Text-Book of Botany, 1896, pp. 197-9.
[956] Yew-Trees, pp. 42-3, and especially Chap. III.