_Mummy Wheat._--As you have afforded space for a Query on "Wild Oats," you will not, I hope, deny me a corner for one on Mummy Wheat. In the year 1840, a letter appeared in _The Times_, signed "Martin Farquhar Tupper," which detailed minutely the sowing, growing, and gathering of some mummy wheat. Mr. Tupper, it seems, had received the grains of wheat from Mr. Pettigrew, who had them from Sir Gardner Wilkinson, by whom they were found on opening an ancient tomb in the Thebaid. Mr. Tupper took great pains to secure the identity of the seed, and had no doubt that he had gathered the product of a grain preserved since the time of the Pharaohs. The long vitality of seeds has been a popular belief; I was therefore surprised to find that that interesting fact is now pronounced to be no fact at all. It appears, in _The Year-Book of Facts for 1852_, that Prof. Henslowe stated to the British Association, that "the instances of plants growing from seeds found in mummies were all erroneous." Can any one tell me how this has been proved? H. W. G. Elgin. _The Trusty Servant at Winchester._--The singular emblematic picture of a "Trusty Servant," in the vestibule of the kitchen of Winchester College, is too well known to require a description. I remember once hearing a gentleman refer to some author as giving a description of a similar figure, and speaking of such representations as of great antiquity. Unfortunately I took no _note_ of it at the time, and I now hope to recover the reference by a _query_; and shall feel obliged to any of your correspondents who may be able to furnish me with an answer: "Who was the author referred to?" M. Y. R. W. _Anecdote._--Can you tell me the names of the clergyman and noble lord referred to in the following anecdote? "A noble lord distinguished for a total neglect of religion, and who, boasting the superior excellence of some water works which he had invented and constructed, added, that after having been so useful to mankind, he expected to be very _comfortable_ in the next world, notwithstanding his ridicule and disbelief of religion. 'Ah,' replied the clergyman, 'if you mean to be _comfortable_ there, you must take your _waterworks_ along with you.'"--Daniel's _Sports_, Supplement, p. 305. H. N. E. _St. Augustine._--What is the best edition of his _Confessions_. Dupin mentions his six Treatises on Man. Do these exist, and do they appear in any edition of St. Augustine's works? E. A. H. L.