Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram 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: Characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on top. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts; equal signs indicate =bold= fonts. Original spelling variations have not been standardized. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. VOL. IV.--No. 110. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1851. Price Sixpence. Stamped Edition 7_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- The Aborigines of St. Domingo, by Henry H. Breen 433 Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger, by Alfred Gatty 434 Passage in Jeremy Taylor 435 Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 435 Folk Lore:--Death Omen by Bees 436 The Caxton Coffer 436 Minor Notes:--Mental Almanac--Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words--Pasquinade--Epigram on Erasmus--Etymology of London--Verses on Shipmoney--Columbus's Bust, &c. at Havanna 436 QUERIES:-- Additional Queries respecting General James Wolfe 438 Christianity, when first introduced into Orkney 439 The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1607 440 Minor Queries:--"The Don," a Poem--John Lord Frescheville--Meaning of "Pallant"--Rectitudines Singularum Personarum--Sir Henry Tichborne's Journal--Round Towers at Bhaugulpore--Johannes Trithemius--Races in which Children are named after the Mothers--Foreign Ambassadors, Ministers, Envoys, and Residents from Foreign Courts--Critolaus and the Horatii and Curiatii--Cabal--"Thus said the Ravens black"--Symbols in Painting--Latin Verse on Franklin--General Moyle--Musical Compositions of Matthew Dubourg--Collodion, and its Application to Photography--Engraved Portrait--Lines by Lord Chesterfield on Queen Caroline's supposed Refusal to forgive her Son when on her Death-bed 441 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Kimmeroi, Cimbri, Cymry--Dictionary of Musicians--City of London Charter--St. Alkald 444 REPLIES:-- Plaids and Tartans 445 Religious Statistics 445