Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 240.]
SATURDAY, JUNE 3. 1854
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
St. Augustine on Clairvoyance, by J. E. B. Mayor 511
Edward Gibbon, Father and Son 511
Bohn's "Ordericus Vitalis" 512
A Curious Exposition 512
MINOR NOTES:--Inscription--Antiquarian Documents--Bishop
Watson's Map of Europe in 1854--Extracts from the
Registers of the Bishops of Lincoln--Marston and
Erasmus--Puzzle for the Heralds 513
QUERIES:--
Sepulchral Monuments 514
Queries on South's Sermons, by the Rev. W. H. Gunner 515
MINOR QUERIES:--Norwich, Kirkpatrick Collection of MSS.
for the History of--Corbet--Initials in Glass Quarries--
Church Service: Preliminary Texts--The Spinning-machine
of the Ancients--View of Dumfries--"To pass the pikes"--
May-day Custom--Maydenburi--Richard Fitz-Alan, ninth Earl
of Arundel--French Refugees--"Dilamgabendi"--Mr.
Plumley--Designation of Works under Review--North-west
Passage--Fountains--Pope and John Dennis 515
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--The Irish at the Battle of
Crecy--King of the Isle of Wight--Theodore de la
Guard--Back--Broom at Masthead 517
REPLIES:--
The Advice supposed to have been given to Julius III.,
by B. B. Woodward, &c. 518
Lord Rosehill 519
Major André 520
The Terminations "-by" and "-ness," by Wm. Matthews, &c. 522
Newspaper Folk Lore, by Edward Peacock 523
Ventilation, by T. J. Buckton 524
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--History of Photographic
Discovery--Photographic Cautions--A Query respecting
Collodion--The Céroléine Process--Mr. Fox Talbot's Patents 524
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--The Olympic Plain--Encylopædia
of Indexes, or Table of Contents--"One New Year's Day"--
Unregistered Proverbs--Orange Blossoms--Peculiar Use of
the Word "Pure"--Worm in Books--Chapel Sunday--Bishop
Inglis of Nova Scotia--Gutta Percha made soluble--Impe--
Bothy--Work on Ants--Jacobite Garters--"The Three
Pigeons"--Corporation Enactments--The Passion of our
Lord dramatised--Hardman's Account of Waterloo--
Aristotle--Papyrus--Bell at Rouen--Word-minting--
Coleridge's Christabel, &c. 526
MISCELLANEOUS:--
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