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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                              Page
  Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," by Dr. E. F.
  Rimbault                                               191
  "[Greek: Aion]," its Derivation                        192
  William Lyons, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross        192
  Curious Marriage Agreement                             193
  Ancient American Languages, by K. R. H. Mackenzie      194
  Conduitt and Newton, by Bolton Corney                  195

  MINOR NOTES:--The Music in Middleton's Tragi-Comedy
  of the "Witch"--Mr. Macaulay and Sir Archibald Alison
  in error--"Paid down upon the nail"--Corpulence a
  Crime--Curious Tender--The Year 1854--A Significant
  Hint                                                   196

  QUERIES:--
  Literary Queries, by the Rev. R. Bingham               197

  MINOR QUERIES:--Hunter of Polmood in Tweed-dale--
  Dinteville Family--Eastern Practice of Medicine--
  Sunday--Three Picture Queries--"Cutting off with a
  Shilling"--Inman or Ingman Family--Constable of
  Masham--Fading Ink--Sir Ralph Killigrew                198

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Pepys--"Retainers to
  Seven Shares and a Half"--Madden's "Reflections and
  Resolutions proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland"--
  King Edward I.'s Arm--Elstob, Elizabeth--Monumental
  Brasses in London                                      199

  REPLIES:--
  Rapping no Novelty: and Table-turning, by Wm. Winthrop,
  &c.                                                    200
  General Whitelocke, by J. S. Harry, &c.                201
  "Man proposes, but God disposes," by J. W. Thomas, &c. 202
  Napoleon's Spelling, by H. H. Breen                    203
  Memoirs of Grammont, by W. H. Lammin                   204
  The Myrtle Bee, by Charles Brown                       205
  Celtic Etymology                                       205

  PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Improvements in the
  Albumenized Process--Mr. Crookes on restoring old
  Collodion--Photographic Queries                        206

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--London Fortifications--
  Burke's Domestic Correspondence--Battle of
  Villers-en-Couche--"I could not love thee, dear, so
  much"--Sir Charles Cotterell--Muffins and Crumpets--
  "Clunk"--Picts' Houses--Tailless Cats--"Cock-and-bull
  story"--Market Crosses--"Largesse"--Awkward, Awart,
  Awalt--Morgan Odoherty--Black Rat--Blue Bells of
  Scotland--Grammars, &c. for Public Schools--Warville   207

  MISCELLANEOUS:--
  Notes on Books, &c.                                    210
  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                           210
  Notices to Correspondents                              211

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