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I should be glad, with the Editor's permission, to offer them to readers of N. & Q' as a small contribution towards an improved edition of the 'Anatomy.' Unfortunately residence in Australia is in many ways unfavourable to such studies; but in a limited field and with limited resources I have tried at least to secure accuracy. I propose at starting to take several passages where Mr. Shilleto suggests emendations of the text which seem to me either unnecessary or demonstrably wrong. by boring alone.” Is not dolabra here an "instrument" for opening the skull? The ‘H.E.D.,' it may be noted, gives no instance of the use of a verb "to hellebore." Vol. i. p. 284, 1. 2 from bottom (Part I. sect. ii. mem. ii. subs. vi.), "Pliny's Villa Laurentana." Shilleto's note is, "Should be Laria. several villas near Pliny had the Lake Larius (now Como), see Ep. ix. 7, 1." But Pliny had also a country-house near Laurentum, of which he gives an elaborate description in Ep. ii. 17; the adjective should be Laurentina. Vol. ii. p. 181, 1. 10 from foot (Part II. sect. iii. mem. iii.), "no other drink than the water of [the] Choaspes that runs by Susa." The insertion of the definite article is unnecessary. Compare 2 Kings v. 12, "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" Vol. ii. p. 238, 1. 13 from bottom (Part II. sect. iii. mem. viii.), "that illiterate Virginian simplicity and gross ignorance." Shilleto in a note has "Qu. Virgilian? An allusion to Virg., 'Georg.' ii. 458-474." Virginian would appear to be right. Compare vol. i. p. 96, 1. 3 ('Democritus to the Reader'), as uncivil as they in Virginia," and 1. 6, "Even so might Virginia, and those wild Irish, have been civilized long since." This "illiterate simplicity" is not yet extinct. I have heard a mathematician from Virginia proudly relate that when asked in a university examination for the date of Chaucer he had replied "600 A.D." (A.D. is good). Vol. i. p. 40, 1. 4, "that it is like to be as prosperous a voyage as that of Guiana, and that there is much more need of Hellebore Vol. ii. p. 292, last line (Part II. sect. v. than of Tobacco.' Shilleto in a foot-note to mem. i. subs. vi.), "they are as red and "Guiana" says "Possibly Guinea." No change flect, and sweat, as if they had been at a is needed. See Purchas his Pilgrimage,' Mayor's Feast." For flect Shilleto suggests Part I. (1617), p. 1023, "What commoditie flush. Flect is unimpeachable, see 'H.E.D.,' Tobacco and Sugars in those parts [=Guianas.v. Flecked,' 2, "Of persons, their faces or and the neighbouring nations] may yeeld is cheeks: Marked with patches of red; incredible, especially in this smoky humour flushed," where the present passage from of the one sexe, and that daintier of the Burton is quoted. EDWARD BENSLY. other." Purchas's margin has "An. 1610, the The University, Adelaide, South Australia. Tobacco that came into England amounted (To be continued.) nominai k.. moon. Thus on the present seration the moon will be full yter midnight an i Asmi fan than by aril reckoning, in¦ what the many Chrom seems to have been CONVIVIAL CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. See Bucks and Good Felows," gm S. iv. 320; TL 23: r £9; 1 463; 12) wester 12 Aori han began as Green- | * ch, vit sefore midnight in a places more THE Mathematical Society was first estabscant degree to the weat of Greenwich. sted at the Mancat's Head,' in Monwhen incindes til Ireland and the county of nocth Street. Spitalfelds, in the year 1717, Comun al Portugal, and the western hair by Joseph Middleton. It was removed thence of pain to the White Horse." Wheeler Street, SpitalTo And the Golden Number for any year feids, in 1735; thence, again, to the Ben it la convenient to remember that every year Jonson's Head Spitalfelis. In the year drasle by nineteen without remainder nas. 1772 another Mathematical Society, then held I forite Golden Namber, and for this century' at the "Black Swan, Brown's Lane, Spitaland next in au mch year the Paschal full moon is on 14 Aori. As a period of nineteen gears corresponds to one of two hundred and thirty-five innations within about two hours, this correspondence lasts for two centuries, A anift, it will be noticed, was made in 1900, and before that, as an earlier table in the Prager Book shows, the Paschal full moon corresponding to Golden Number I. was 12 April, whereas (as already remarked) it is now 14 April. For Golden Number IL it is feida, was at the request of its members (who brought with them their books, instruments, de incorporated into this; and in the year 1789 the society removed to the Black Swan." In 1783 the Historical Society, held at the "George in Carter's Rents, Spitalfelds, was at the desire of its members, who brought their historical library with them) united to this society. Modern Druids-See Heckethorn's 'Secret Societies,' vol. ii. p. 293. |