Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—	Page
St. Augustine on Clairvoyance, by J. E. B. Mayor	511
Edward Gibbon, Father and Son	511
Bohn's "Ordericus Vitalis"	512
A Curious Exposition	512
Minor Notes:—Inscription—Antiquarian Documents—Bishop Watson's Map of Europe in 1854—Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops of Lincoln—Marston and Erasmus—Puzzle for the Heralds	513
Queries:—
Sepulchral Monuments	514
Queries on South's Sermons, by the Rev. W. H. Gunner	515
Minor Queries:—Norwich, Kirkpatrick Collection of MSS. for the History of—Corbet—Initials in Glass Quarries—Church Service: Preliminary Texts—The Spinning-machine of the Ancients—View of Dumfries—"To pass the pikes"—May-day Custom—Maydenburi—Richard Fitz-Alan, ninth Earl of Arundel—French Refugees—"Dilamgabendi"—Mr. Plumley—Designation of Works under Review—North-west Passage—Fountains—Pope and John Dennis	515
Minor Queries with Answers:—The Irish at the Battle of Crecy—King of the Isle of Wight—Theodore de la Guard—Back—Broom at Masthead	517
Replies:—
The Advice supposed to have been given to Julius III., by B. B. Woodward, &c.	518
Lord Rosehill	519
Major AndrÉ	520
The Terminations "-by" and "-ness," by Wm. Matthews, &c.	522
Newspaper Folk Lore, by Edward Peacock	523
Ventilation, by T. J. Buckton	524
Photographic Correspondence:—History of Photographic Discovery—Photographic Cautions—A Query respecting Collodion—The CÉrolÉine Process—Mr. Fox Talbot's Patents	524
Replies to Minor Queries:—The Olympic Plain—EncylopÆdia of Indexes, or Table of Contents—"One New Year's Day"—Unregistered Proverbs—Orange Blossoms—Peculiar Use of the Word "Pure"—Worm in Books—Chapel Sunday—Bishop Inglis of Nova Scotia—Gutta Percha made soluble—Impe—Bothy—Work on Ants—Jacobite Garters—"The Three Pigeons"—Corporation Enactments—The Passion of our Lord dramatised—Hardman's Account of Waterloo—Aristotle—Papyrus—Bell at Rouen—Word-minting—Coleridge's Christabel, &c.	526
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted	530
Notices to Correspondents	530

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