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CONTENTS. -No. 19.

NOTES : Inscriptions at Orotava, Tenerife, 351 Birth- Marks, 362 St. Margaret's Church and the Queen's West- minsters, 363 Jenny Greenteeth The Cheshire Cat in America, 365 Nelson at Bath Thomas Rankin Sir William Catesby "Hasped" Casting Lots, 366 Tower Bridge Anticipated, 367.

QUERIES : ' Ancient Orders of Gray's Inn 'Commemo- rative Tablets John Mottley, Dramatist, 367 Dryden Portraits Lord Gowran Mirfield Book Society "Send" of the Sea - Epitaph on Lieutenant of Marines Lady Chan trey Brome Edward Williams " Sal et saliva" St. Bees' Head, Cumberland, 368 Roman Tenement Houses Brazen Bijou "Gringo" : " Griengro "Chair of St. Augustine Number Superstition, 369.

REPLIES : Engravings, 369" Hanged, drawn, and quar- tered" Burns Anticipated Tideswell and Tideslow, 371 "As the crow flies" Women Voters in Counties and Boroughs Birds' Eggs, 372 Arms of Pope Pius IX. Latin Lines Manitoba " The Crown and Three Sugar Loaves," 373 Mitchel & Finlay, Bankers Bass Rock Music Fair Maid of Kent " Foleit' "Torpedoes, 374 Tickling Trout Barbers Scotch Words and English Com- mentators" Ship " Hotel at Greenwich Louis XVII. Battlefield Sayings James Brindley, 375 Nelson and Wolsey, 376 "There was a man" Northall, Shropshire St. Mewbread Carson Prints and Engravings, 377 Batrome Admiral Donald Campbell, 378.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Smith's 'Elizabethan Critical Essays' Jekyll's ' Old West Surrey' Almack's 'Book- plates'Coleridge's 'Aids to Reflection' 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 'Magazines and Reviews.

Michael Lloyd Ferrar. Notics to Correspondents.

INSCRIPTIONS AT OROTAVA, TENERIFE.

THE following record of inscriptions on tombs of persons of English nationality in the English cemetery at Port Orotava, Tene- rife, was taken on 22 February. There are a few interments without inscriptions, and a few of persons of other nationalities, which are not recorded here.

1. Anne, w. of Charles Smith, M.A., of St. John's, Cambridge, and 2nd dau. of the late Benjamin Thompson, Esq., of Workington, Cumberland, b. 27 Dec., 1801, mar. 12 Sep., 1833, ob. 26 Nov., 1862. Also the above Charles Smith, many years resident in the Valley of Orotava, b. 31 Aug., 1804, ob. 13 Aug., 1885.

2. Mary Smith, sister of Charles Smith, M.A., b. in London, 16 Feb., 1795, ob. at Port Orotava, 12 Nov., 1875.

3. Fanny Aimee Kathleen, d. of Derwent Smith ana Fanny his wife, b. 5 May, 1875, ob. 5 July, 1876.

4. Andres Daniel Goodall, ob. 19 Dec., 1879, a. 78.

5. Ysabel Fleming Goodall de Carpenter, ob. 3 July, 1873, a. 79.

6. Tomas Carpenter ob. 1 June, 1871 a. 84.

7. David Boswell Goodall, ob. 29 Ap., 1871.

a. 70.

8. Juana Goodall, ob. 28 May, 1847.

[The above are all enclosed by one railing, and the last inscription is already very indistinct. The last five are in Spanish.]

9. Charles Hughes Cousens, ob. 14 Ap., 1898, b. 26 Nov., 1861.

10. George Herbert Wilson, s. of the Eev. John Wilson, M.A., Free Church, Canonbie, Scotland, ob. 3 Feb., 1889, a. 3 months.

11. Betty, only child of Robert and Helena Acland Hood, b. 23 Ap., 1900, ob. 20 Feb., 1901.

lla. George Simpson Nixon, Oct., 1890. Indistinct.

12. Janet Findlater Andrew, ob. 6 Feb., 1903.

13. Joseph Seymour Biscoe, Major Bengal Staff Corps, previously Royal Artillery,

b. 9 Aug., 1843, ob. 30 Oct., 1890.

14. Brooke Lewis Laing, b. at Colchester, ob. suddenly 12 May, 1872, a. 21. In Latin.

15. Benjamin Smith, M.D., b. 2 Feb, 1804, ob. 10 Mar., 1868, at Puerto de Orotava.

16. Susan Heard Dabney, wid. of Charles William Dabney, of Boston, Mass., ob. 25 Dec., 1896, a. 77.

17. James W. Morris, ob. 25 Nov., 1878, a. 29.

18. George Herbert Marriott, ob. at Oro- tava, 17 Aug, 1893, a. 45. Inscription on local stone, and already indistinct.

19. Arthur Henry Pring, b. 20 Sept., 1855, ob. 17 May, 1893.

20. Alice Evelyn Wharry, b. 19 June, 1889, ob. 15 May, 1890.

21. Walter Long Boreham, 1848-1890.

22. Maria Carter Kenshaw, b. 26 Oct., 1846, ob. 16 Mar., 1880.

23. Adeline, w. of Lieut.-Col. Girardot, ob. 22 Feb., 1889, a. 39.

24. Fitzroy William Kichard Hichens, ob. 12 Feb., 1891, a. 24.

25. M. W. Stuart Isacke, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., b. 18 Mar., 1871, ob. 27 Dec., 1901.

26. Charles William Robinson, b. in India, ob. at Puerto Orotava, 19 Oct., 1886, a. 35.

27. Benjamin Brancker, b. 29 Nov., 1819, ob. 16 Mar., 1900.

28. John Lanyon, of Lisbreen, Fort William Park, Belfast, ob. at Orotava, 13 Feb., 1900, a. 61.

29. Florence Sarah, w. of G. W. Strettell, ob. at Orotava, 29 July (her natal day), 1891, a. 39.

30. George William Strettell, ob. at Orotava, 17 June, 1898.

31. Alfred William Webster, youngest s. of