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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.
| No. 230. | Saturday, March 25. 1854. | Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| Original English Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by William Winthrop | 263 |
| Fata Morgana, by J. Macray | 267 |
| On the Destruction of Monumental Brasses | 268 |
| Original Letter of the Countess of Blessington to Sir William Drummond | 268 |
| MINOR NOTES:—The late Judge Talfourd—Authors' Trustee Society—The Old Clock at Alderley—The Olympic Plain, &c.—Electric Telegraph—Irish Law in the Eighteenth Century—Gravestone Inscriptions | 269 |
| Queries:— | |
| Minor Queries:—Paintings of Our Saviour—Heraldic—Dedication of Kemerton Church—Consolato del Mare—Consonants in Welsh—Atonement—Sir Stephen Fox—"Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland"—Darwin on Steam—Scottish Female Dress—"The Innocents," a Drama—Waugh of Cumberland—Norton—De La Fond—"Button Cap"—Cobb Family—Prince Charles' Attendants in Spain—Sack | 270 |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—Ralph Ashton the Commander—Christopher Hervie—Dannocks—Brass in All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Imperfect Bible—The Poem of "Helga"—"Merryweather's Tempest Prognosticator"—Edward Spencer's Marriage—Yew-tree at Crowhurst | 272 |
| Replies:— | |
| The Electric Telegraph in 1753 | 274 |
| Factitious Pedigrees: Dixon of Beeston, by Lord Monson, E. P. Shirley, &c. | 275 |
| Licences to Crenellate, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, &c. | 276 |
| Newspaper Folk Lore, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, &c. | 276 |
| French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes, by Edgar MacCulloch | 277 |
| Vault Interments: Burial in an Erect Posture: Interment of the Trogloditæ | 278 |
| Do Conjunctions join Propositions only? by H. L. Mansel, &c. | 279 |
| Has Execution by Hanging been survived? | 280 |
| Photographic Correspondence:—A Stereoscopic Note—Photographic Query—Deepening Collodion Negatives—Caution to Photographers | 282 |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Artesian Wells—Prior's Epitaph on Himself—Handwriting—"Begging the Question"—When and where does Sunday begin or end?—Precious Stones—Scotch Grievance—"Corporations have no Souls," &c.—Devereux Bowly—Reversible Names—Duval Family, &c. | 283 |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, &c. | 288 |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | 289 |
| Notices to Correspondents | 289 |
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