Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. * * * * * {25} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 193.] SATURDAY, JULY 9. 1853.. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page The Eye: its primary Idea 25 Gossiping History--De Quincey's Account of Hatfield 26 Notes upon the Names of some of the Early Inhabitants of Hellas 27 Shakspeare Readings, No. IX. 28 Goethe's Author-Remuneration 29 MINOR NOTES:--Parallel Passages--Unpublished Epitaphs-- The Colour of Ink in Writings--Literary Parallels-- Latin Verses prefixed to Parish Registers-- Napoleon's Bees 30 QUERIES:-- Was Thomas Lord Lyttelton the Author of Junius's Letters? by Sir F. Madden 31 MINOR QUERIES:--Lord Chatham--Slow-worm Superstition-- Tangiers--Snail Gardens--Naples and the Campagna Felice--"The Land of Green Ginger"--Mugger-- Snail-eating--Mysterious Personage--George Wood of Chester--A Scale of Vowel Sounds--Seven Oaks and Nine Elms--Murder of Monaldeschi--Governor Dameram--Ancient Arms of the See of York--Hupfeld--Inscription on a Tomb in Finland--Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on Railway Travelling--Tom Thumb's House at Gonerby, Lincolnshire--Mr. Payne Collier's Monovolume Shakspeare 33 REPLIES:-- Wild Plants and their Names 35 Jacob Bobart, by H. T. Bobart 37 Heraldic Queries 37 Door-head Inscriptions 38 Consecrated Roses 38 Notes on Serpents 39 Photographic Correspondence:--Early Notice of the Camera Obscura--Queries on Dr. Diamond's Collodion Process--Baths for the Collodion Process 41