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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:--

Lord Rosehill 519

Major Andr? 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 C?rol?ine Process--Mr. Fox Talbot's Patents 524

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--The Olympic Plain--Encylopaedia 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

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Notices to Correspondents 530

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