"I wish I could confirm the truth of the information given to MR. WINN, which I think it is scarcely necessary for me to say is _entirely incorrect_: and how such a report could have originated it is difficult to understand; unless by supposing that a member of the family when at Nettlecombe, in their childhood, had seen a stuffed specimen of the large _bustard_; and that this, in the course of years, had been magnified in their imaginative and indistinct recollection into a _dodo_. I admired much your restoration of the dodo at the Great Exhibition; which, judging from the old pictures and known remains of the bird, gives, I think, a very good idea of what it was. I do not know of {545} any other remains of the _dodo_ than those enumerated by Mr. Strickland; and had there been any at Nettlecombe, they would long ago have been known to naturalists. "I remain, Sir, "Yours faithfully, "W. C. TREVELYAN. To Mr. A. D. Bartlett, 12. College Street, Camden Town." * * * * * WHIPPING OF PRINCES BY PROXY. (Vol. v., p. 468.) Your correspondent who makes inquiry about Whipping-boys of Princes, I would refer to a very scarce old play from which I give an extract, and in which the whipping-boy was _knighted_, _When You see Mee You know Mee_, as it was played by the High and Mighty Prince of Wales his Servants, by Samuel Rowley, London, 1632: "_Prince_ (Ed. VI.). Why, how now, Browne; what's the matter? _Browne._ Your Grace loyters, and will not plye your booke, and your tutors have whipt me for it. _Prince._ Alas, poore Ned! I am sorrie for it. I'll take the more paines, and entreate my tutors for thee; yet, in troth, the lectures they read me last night out of Virgil and Ovid I am perfect in, onely I confesse I am behind in my Greeke authors. _Will_ (Summers). And for that speech they have declined it uppon his breech," &c.--Pages 48-53.