In taking down a wall in the ruins of the abbey, a human skeleton was found, with a table, a book, and a candle-stick. It is supposed to have been the remains of the fourteenth abbot, who, it is stated, was for some crime sentenced to be immured--a mode of capital punishment not uncommon in monasteries. Four views of the abbey are given in Allen's _History of Lincolnshire_, vol ii., and some farther notices of its ancient state will be found in Dugdale's _Monasticon_, vol. vi. pl. i. p. 324.; Tanner's _Notitia_, Lincolnshire, lxxvii.; and _Beauties of England and Wales_, vol. ix. p. 684.] _Bishop Wilson's "Sacra Privata."_--In the new edition of this work, p. 381., there is given a table of "The Collects, with their Tendencies." Under the head of Fasting, references are made to the First Sunday in Lent, _and the Tenth and Twenty-third after Trinity_.--There must be some mistake in this, as the last two collects refer to prayer. This for your correspondent MR. DENTON, to whom I understand the Church is indebted for the redintegration of the good bishop's journal. A. A. D. [We have submitted the above to the REV. WILLIAM DENTON, who expresses his obligations to A. A. D. for pointing out the error, which seems to have escaped the notice of all the previous editors of the _Sacra Privata_. The second edition is now at press, and, if not too late, the correction will be made. MR. DENTON doubts whether the list after all is the bishop's; but thinks it was only copied by him from some work. Can any one point out the source? It is singular that another mistake of the bishop's should have escaped the notice of all previous editors, namely, the tendency of the collect for Whit-Sunday being described as _Humiliation_ instead of _Illumination_.] _Derivation of "Chemistry."_--Are there any historical reasons for deriving the word _chemistry_ from _Chemi_, the name of Egypt, as is done by Bunsen and others? T. H. T.