Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://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. * * * * * {413} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 236.] SATURDAY, MAY 6. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page An Encyclopaedia of Ventilation, by Bolton Corney 415 The House of Russell, or Du Rozel, by John Macray 416 Ferdinand Charles III., Duke of Parma 417 Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by William Winthrop 417 MINOR NOTES:--Whipping a Lady--Mother of Thirty Children--"Ought" and "Aught"--Walton--Salutations-- Good Times for Equity Suitors--The Emperor of Russia and the Order of the Garter 419 QUERIES:-- Sir Henry Wotton's Verses, "The Character of a Happy Life," by John Macray 420 MINOR QUERIES:--Plants and Flowers--Quotations wanted--Griffith, William, Bishop of Ossory-- "Cowperiana"--John Keats's Poems--Holland--Armorial-- Stoke and Upton--Slavery in England--"Go to Bath"-- Mummy Chests--The Blechenden Family--Francklyn Household Book--Lord Rosehill's Marriage--Colonel Butler--Willesdon, co. Middlesex 421 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Ashes of "Lignites"-- Bishop Bathurst--"Selah"--The Long Parliament--"The Three Pigeons"--Captain Cook--Varnish for old Books--Cabbages 422 REPLIES:-- Addison's Hymns, by J. H. Markland 424 Longfellow, by John P. Stillwell, &c. 424 Books burnt by the Hangman, by E. F. Woodman, &c. 425 Sack 427 Irish Law in the Eighteenth Century, by Alexander Andrews, &c. 427 Job xix. 26., by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth 428 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Photographic Experiences--The Ceroleine Process--On preserving the Sensitiveness of Collodion Plates 429