"Few books of a cotemporary date can more readily be procured than Wither's first _Remembrancer_ in 1628; few, it is believed, can be more difficult of attainment than his second _Remembrancer_, licensed in 1640, of which latter Dalrymple observes, 'there are some things interspersed in it, nowhere, perhaps, to be surpassed.'"--_Bibliographer's Manual_, p. 1971. FIRST PANORAMA. (Vol. iv., p. 54.) I did not speak of my own recollection of Girtin's panorama; my memory cannot reach so far back. It was my father who does perfectly remember _Girtin's_ semicircular panorama. I think the mistake must be with H. T. E. Some years back a large collection of Girtin's drawings and sketches were sold at Pimlico; my father went to see them, and was delighted to find among them some of the original sketches for this panorama, which he immediately recognised and bought. He afterwards showed them to Girtin's son, now living in practice as a surgeon at Islington (I believe), who identified them as his father's work, and with whom I went to see the painting, when not many years back it was found in a carpenter's loft. Girtin certainly was a painter principally in water colour, and one who, with the present J. M. W. Turner, contributed much to the advancement of that branch of art; but I do not see how that is a reason why he did not paint a panorama. I should think it not unlikely that two semicircular panoramas of the same subject were painted; and, therefore, with all deference, believe that the mistake is with H. T. E. Girtin's son, if applied to, could, and I am sure would, give any information he possessed readily. E. N. W. We are not yet quite right about the first panorama, but perhaps the following will close the discussion. I have lately been sitting with Mr. Barker (ætat 78), and he tells me that, when quite a boy, he sketched for his father the view of Edinburgh from the observatory on the Calton Hill: in the foreground was Holyrood House; that _that_ was a half circle, and was exhibited in Edinburgh. So much was thought of the discovery of its being _possible_ to take a view beyond the old rule of sixty degrees, that they went to London, and then he took the view from the top of the Albion Mills, as was stated in Vol. iv., p. 54. That was three quarters of a circle, and was exhibited in Castle Street, Leicester Square. Afterwards the whole circle was attempted. The idea of painting a view more than sixty degrees, was suggested by his mother. His father did not work at them, he being a portrait painter; but _he_ did, young as he was. Mr. Robert Barker and his wife were both Irish; but Henry Aston the son was born in Glasgow. H. T. ELLACOMBE. Clyst St. George. JOHN A KENT. (Vol. iv., p. 83.) As I have not seen the _Athenæum_, I send the following notes, in uncertainty whether or not they may prove acceptable to MR. COLLIER.