_Learned Men of the Name of Bacon_ (Vol. iii., pp. 41. 151.; Vol. v., p. 181.).--To this list may be added that of a learned lady, namely, of the Lady Ann Bacon (Cooke), second wife of the Lord Keeper, and mother of the Lord Chancellor. She translated, from the Italian of Bernardine Achine, _Twenty-five Sermons_, published about 1550. Sir Nathaniel Bacon, the painter, was the youngest son of Nicholas, the eldest son of the Lord Keeper, and consequently the latter's grandson. This Nicholas, of Redgrave, Suffolk, was High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1597, and represented the same county in the parliament of 1603. He was the first person created a baronet; and from him are descended the Bacons of Redgrave, Suffolk, afterwards of Great Ryburgh, Garboldisham, Gillingham, and now of Raveningham, Norfolk, premier baronets of England. There are engraved portraits of Lady Ann Bacon, and of Sir Nathaniel the painter. COWGILL. _Paring the Nails_ (Vol. iii., p. 462.; Vol. v., p 142.).--In reference to the superstitious practices in question, the readers of the _Prose Edda_, many of whose traditions still survive amongst us, will remember what it is therein narrated concerning the ship Naglfar. Amongst the terror-fraught prodigies preceding Ragnarök, or the Twilight of the Gods, and the Conflagration of the Universe, we are informed that "on the waters floats the ship Naglfar, which is constructed of the nails of dead men. For which reason," it is said, "great care should be taken to die with pared nails; for he who dies with his nails unpared, supplies materials for the building of this vessel, which both gods and men wish may be finished as late as possible." Of this ship, the more ancient and poetical Völn-spà also speaks in something like the following terms:-- "A keel from distant East is nearing, Pilotted by Loki's hand, Muspellheimr's children bearing,-- Sea-borne comes that horrid band! With the wolf to join, are speeding, In a grim and gaunt array, Monster-forms 'neath Loki's leading,-- Byleist's brother leads the way." COWGILL. _Mottoes on Dials._--I have not seen the following motto noticed either in your pages or elsewhere. I quote it from memory, as I recollect reading it many years ago on the sun-dial in front of the Hospice on the summit of the Mont Cenis: "Tempore nimboso securi sistile gradum--- Ut mihi sic vobis hora quietis erit." J. E. T. _Mispronounced Names of Places_ (Vol. v., p. 196.).--Allow me to add to P. M. M.'s list: Spelling. Pronunciation.