SIR,--With regard to the inquiry made in your "Current Notes" for December, p. 93, with respect to Archæological publications, I wish to direct your Correspondent to a publication issued by the Architectural Societies for Northampton, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Bedfordshire, consisting of the Reports and Papers read before those Societies in the year 1850. The second part, comprising the Transactions for the Year 1851, is now in the press, and will shortly be published. These two parts will form one handsome octavo volume, printed more especially for the use of the Members of the above Societies, but a few copies are reserved for general sale, for which Mr. Masters is the agent; Thinking that your Correspondent might be glad to hear of the existence of this volume, I thought it as well to trouble you with this note. I remain, yours faithfully, T. PYNDAR LOWE. Saltfletby, Louth, Jan. 29. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.--With reference to the January Number of "Current Notes," p. 2, and the reply to an inquiry (from J. P., Philadelphia, 18th November) respecting the Author of "Father Tom and the Pope, or a Night at the Vatican,"--a paper which appeared in Blackwood some years ago, W. C. J. A. has had the goodness to inform G. W. that the reply given by F. M. is not quite correct. "The writer of that paper was Mr. Samuel Ferguson, then and still a Member of the Irish Bar, going the North-East Circuit, and a native of Belfast. Mr. Ferguson is also the author of some spirited stanzas, published in the same Magazine, entitled, 'The Forging of the Anchor,' and is very favourably known as the author of some interesting papers in 'Blackwood,' and in the Antiquarian department of the 'Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,' of which learned body he has been for several years a member." "Mr. F." adds W. C. J. A. "has, _I believe_, but I am not quite sure, written in the 'Dublin University Magazine.'" THE SHADOOF.--I beg to inform W. G. with reference to his observations in your "Current Notes" for December last, that the Shadoof as engraved by you at p. 96 is in common use all over the State of New York in places where wells are obliged to be sunk, the machine being far less costly than a pump, and such as anybody can construct. We have abundance of rivers and streams, so many indeed, that I have never seen a windmill in America. YOUR N. Y. ES-PECIAL REPORTER. THOMAS HOOD.--How lamentable is it to observe, from the research of A. K. in Willis's "Current Notes" for December (p. 90), and for which I sincerely thank his Correspondent, that so eminent a man as Thomas Hood should so recently have departed from among us without record of his death.