_Grafts and the Parent Tree_ (Vol. vii., pp. 365. 436. 486. 536.).--I was equally surprised with H. C. K. at the dictum of MR. INGLEBY, that "grafts after some fifteen years wear themselves out," but the ground for such a belief is fairly suggested by J. G. (p. 536.), otherwise I am afraid the almost universal experience of orchardists would contradict MR. INGLEBY'S theory. The "Ross Nonpareil," a well-known and valuable fruit, was, like the Ribston Pippin, singular to say, raised from Normandy seed. The fact has been often told to me by a gentleman who died several years since, at a very advanced age, in the town of New Ross, co. Wexford. He perfectly remembered the original tree standing in the garden attached to the endowed school in that town, where it had been originally planted by Sir John Ivory, the son or grandson of a Cromwellian settler, who raised it from seed, at the commencement of the eighteenth century; and who left his own dwelling-house in New Ross to be a school, and endowed it out of his estates. The tree has long since decayed, but its innumerable _grafted_ successors are in the most flourishing condition. The flavour of this apple lies chiefly in its rind. Y. S. M. _Golden Tooth_ (Vol. viii., p. 382.).--I recollect very well, when a boy, trying to keep my tongue out of the cavity from whence a tooth had been extracted, in the hope of acquiring the golden tooth promised to me by my old nurse, and after several attempts having succeeded in refraining for four-and-twenty hours (the period required to elapse), and no gold tooth appearing, I well remember my disgust and disappointment. This {338} folk lore (query _lure_) was, and I believe still is, in full force in the south of Ireland, and probably elsewhere. Y. S. M. _Cambridge Mathematical Questions_ (Vol. ix., p. 35.).--These are so far put forth "by authority" as the publication in the Cambridge _Calendar_, and the two local newspapers goes; a collection of the Senate House Papers for "Honours" from 1838 to 1849, has also been published, arranged according to subjects, by Rev. A. H. Frost, M.A., of St. John's College. P. J. F. GANTILLON.