Riding with a friend, a miller, in Essex, about thirteen years ago, he jumped out of the gig and over a gate, to seize a sack which was lying in a field. Seeing no initials upon it, I asked how he knew that it was his; when he pointed out to me a fish marked upon it, which he told me had been his own and his father's mark for many years. He also said that most of the millers in the neighbourhood had a peculiar _mark_ (not their names or initials), each a different one for his own sacks. A. J. N. Birmingham. "_Amentium haud amantium_" (Vol. vii., p. 595.).--Your correspondent's Query sent me at once to a queer old _Terence in English_, together with the text, "_opera ac industria R. B., in Axholmensi insula, Lincolnsherii Epwortheatis_. [London, Printed by John Legatt, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, at the sign of the Green-Dragon, in Paul's Church Yard. 1641.] 6th Edition." Here, as I expected, I found an alliterative translation of the phase in question "For they are fare as they were _lunaticke, and not love-sicke_." The translation, I may add, is in prose. OXONIENSIS. Walthamstow. _The Megatherium in the British Museum_ (Vol. vii., p. 590.).--It is much to be regretted that A FOREIGN SURGEON should not have examined the contents of the room which contains the cast of the skeleton of this animal with a little more attention, before he penned the above article. Had he done so, he would have found many of the original bones, from casts of which the restored skeleton has been constructed, in Wall Cases 9 and 10, and would not have fallen into the error of supposing that it is a _fac-simile_ of the original skeleton at Madrid. _That_ specimen was exhumed near Buenos Ayres in 1789; whilst our restoration {20} has been made from bones of another individual, many of which are, as I have stated, to be found in the British Museum itself, and others in that of the Royal College of Surgeons. I are not about to defend the propriety of putting the trunk of a palm-tree into the claws of the Megatherium, though I do not suppose that the restorer ever expected, when he did so, that any one would entertain the idea that this gigantic beast was in the habit of climbing trees; but I would fain ask your correspondent on what grounds he makes the dogmatic assertion that "Palms there were none, at that period of telluric formation." I will simply remind him of the vast numbers of fossil fruits, and other remains of palms, in the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey. W. J. BERNHARD SMITH. Temple. _Pictorial Proverbs_ (Vol. v., p. 559.).--Perhaps the book here mentioned is one of the old German _Narrenbuchs_, or _Book of Fools_, which were generally illustrated with pictures, of which I have a curious set in my possession.