A. N. _"The Worm in the Bud," &c._ (Vol. iv., p. 86.).--This quotation is from Cowper's lines appended to the Bill of Mortality for the parish of All Saints, Northampton, for 1787: "Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age." I know not with whom the idea originated. The imagery is frequently used by Shakspeare, but with him never indicates disease or death. I can call to mind no similar expression in the classics. H. E. H. _Moore's Almanack_ (Vol. iv., p. 74.).--Your correspondent FRANCIS is in error as to the MSS. and correspondence of Henry Andrews being in the possession of his son, Mr. Wm. Henry Andrews. Mr. W. H. Andrews some time ago sold to me the whole of his father's MSS. correspondence, astronomical and astrological calculations, with a mass of very curious letters from persons desirous of having their "nativities cast." I have also some copies of Andrews' portrait, one of which shall be much at your service. Moore's _Almanack_ was known by that name long before Andrews had any connection with it, but he was for upwards of forty years its compiler for the Company of Stationers, whose liberal (?) treatment of Andrews may be collected from the following postscript to a letter addressed to me by his son:-- "My father's calculations, &c., for Moore's _Almanack_, continued during a period of forty-three years; and although through his great talent and management he increased the sale of that work from 100,000 to 500,000, yet, strange to say, all he received for his services was 25_l._ per ann.!! Yet I never heard him murmur even once about it; such was his delight in pursuing his favourite studies, that his anxiety about remuneration was out of the question. Sir Richard Phillips, who at times visited him at Royston, once met him in London, and endeavoured to persuade him to go with him to Stationers' Hall, and he would get him 100_l._; but he declined going, saying that he was satisfied." Andrews was also computer to the Board of Longitude, and Maskelyne's _Letters_ evidence the value and correctness of his calculations. The only materials left by Andrews for a memoir of his life I believe I possess, and some day I may find leisure to put them into order for publication. ROBT. COLE. _Scurvy Ale._--The Query (Vol. iv., p. 68.) "What was scurvy ale?" may perhaps be answered by an extract from a little work, _The Polar Sea and Regions_, published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. In the account of Baffin's voyage, in which he discovered the bay called after him Baffin's Bay, we are told that-- "Finding the health of his crew rather declining, he sailed across to Greenland, where an abundance of _scurvy grass boiled in beer_ quickly restored them; and the Lord then sent them a speedy and good passage homeward." Johnson explains scurvy-grass as spoonwort. W. FRASER.