"Understanding is the faculty of reflection, reason of contemplation." And p. 176.--"The understanding, then, considered exclusively as an organ of human intelligence, is the faculty by which we reflect and generalise.... The whole process [of the understanding] may be reduced to three acts, all depending on, and supposing a previous impression on, the senses: first, the appropriation of our attention; second (and in order to the continuance of the first), abstraction, or the voluntary withholding of the attention; and, third, generalisation; and these are the proper functions of the understanding." _Aids to Reflection_, vol. i. p. 182. _note_.-- "So far, and no further, could the understanding carry us; and so far as this, 'the faculty judging according to sense' conducts many of the inferior animals, if not in the same, yet in instances analogous and fully equivalent." Does Coleridge, then, mean us to understand him as saying, that many of the brutes can reflect, abstract, and generalise? (3.) _Friend_, vol. i. p. 259.-- "Reason! best and holiest gift of God, and bond of union with the Giver; the high title by which the majesty of man claims precedence above all other living creatures--mysterious faculty, the mother of conscience, of language...." _Aids to Reflection_, vol. i. pp. 176-182.--Coleridge here gives his reasons for considering language a property of the understanding; and, in p. 195., adds,-- "It is, however, by no means equally clear to me that the dog may not possess an _analogon_ of words which I have elsewhere shown to be the proper objects of the 'faculty judging according to sense.'" Does Coleridge mean that the inferior animals may have language? Who, of your many able correspondents, will assist me in unravelling this complicated tissue? C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. * * * * * Minor Queries. _Banning or Bayning Family._--I am desirous of knowing if there was a family of the name of _Banning_ or _Bayning_ seated in Ireland at the close of the sixteenth century; and whether there was any other branch in England excepting that in Essex. K. _Ladies styled Baronets._--An ancestor of mine, Sir Anthony Chester, Bart., of Chichley Hall, Bucks, in his will, dated Nov. 26, 1635, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Dec. 9, 1635 [128 Sadler], desires "to be buried in the north part of Chichley Church, in the same vault with Dame Elizabeth Chester, Baronet, his first wife." Are there any other instances of ladies of the same rank being styled Baronet about this time? I may mention that this Lady Chester was daughter to Sir Henry Boteler, of Hatfield Woodhall, Herts, and sister to John Lord Boteler, of Bramfeld. TEWARS.