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the late James Webster, Esq., of Hatherley Court, Cheltenham, b. 1847, ob. 1895.

32. W. Sealy Vidal, Captain Royal Engineers, ob. 14 Jan., 1896, a. 75.

33. John Stirling, gr. son of John btirling, of Kippendavie, Perth, N.B., ob. 15 May, 1894,

'34.' John Ronald Rainey, ob. at Orotava, 16 July, 1896, a. 47.

35 Robin Perry, b. May, 1866, ob. Jan., 1895. 36. Jean Logan Muir, ob. 13 Feb., 1893.

37 Henry W. Isacke, Col. Royal Artillery, b. 29 Sept., 1841, ob. 14 Mar., 1902.

38 Mabel Burleigh, b. at Kingstown, Ireland, 28 May, 1868, ob. at Orotava, 20 Nov.,

1891

39! Edwin, s. of John and Annie Naylor, of Fern Hill, near Halifax, England, ob. 19 April, 1891, a. 34.

40. William Howard, of Brading, Bourne- mouth, ob. 30 Jan., 1889, a. 33.

41. Donald A. Kennedy, b. 8 Dec., 1860, ob. 12 Jan., 1889.

42. Arthur Grene Robinson, 7th s. of the late Robt. Robinson, of Partick, Glasgow, ob. at Orotava, 17 Feb., 1898, a. 45.

43. George Ballingall Stuart, M.B., Surgeon Lieut. -Colonel, formerly of the Royal Scots Greys and Grenadier Guards, b. at Bombay, 8 July, 1848, ob. at Orotava, 2 Aug., 1897.

44. Peter Mortimer Turnbull, of Smithston Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, ob. at Hotel Mar- tianez, Orotava, 7 Mar., 1898, a. 51.

45. Norah Grace, d. of Vice-Admiral T. B. Sulivan and Isabel his w., ob. 1 June, 1897, a. 24.

45a. Alice Haynes, ob. 26 May, 1901.

46. Francis William Evelegh, 6th s. of Captain George Carter Evelegh, Royal Artillery, of Newport, I. of Wight, b. 17 Feb., 1849, ob. 30 Nov., 1902.

47. Hugh Lindsay Maclennan, Captain 3rd Batt. Seaforth Highlanders, and for thirty-one years Quartermaster at Fort George, Scotland, b. 4 Sept., 1837, ob. 12 Sept., 1896.

48. Robert William Forrest, B.A., Queen's College, Oxford, eldest s. of the Rev. R. W. Forrest, D.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, Vicar of St. Jude's, South Kensington, and of Isabella his wife, b. at Liverpool, 20 Feb., 1863, ob. 22 Mar., 1887.

49. Edward Heron Ryan Tenison, ob. at Orotava, 14 Sept., 1894, a. 34.

50. Edward Rendall, b. 28 Feb., 1855, ob. 29 Dec., 1894.

51. The wife (no name) of Stephen Crosby Mills, United States Army, ob. 14 Dec., 1889.

52. Agnes Wemyss Janson, ob. 17 July, 1892.

53. George Puckle, Lieut. Royal Marines, eldest s. of Colonel H. G. Puckle, Madras Staff Corps, ob. at Orotava, 16 May, 1892, a. 25.

54. General J. W. Orchard, Bengal Staff Corps, ob. 18 Mar., 1893, a. 65.

55. Arthur Patchett Martin, formerly of Melbourne, Australia, b. 18 Feb., 1851, ob. 15 Feb., 1902.

56. Edith Louise Jennings, ob. 10 Ap., 1893,. a. 24.

57. John Townsend Kirkwood, of Boldre- wood, Berks, formerly of Yeo Vale, Bideford, Devon, b. 7 Oct., 1814, ob. 10 Jan., 1902.

G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col.

BIRTH-MARKS.

THE note on still-born children (ante, p. 281) calls to mind the various curious ideas about mothers' marks. I believe medical men nowadays altogether ridicule the wide- spread belief that pregnant women mark their children with objects they have longed for. May, in Chaucer's 'Marchand's Tale,'' says :

I telle yow wel a womman in my plyt May have to fruyt so gret an appetyt That sche may deyen, but sche it have.

In my edition (Bell, 1878) there is this note, I presume by Prof. Skeat : " An allu- sion to the well-known vulgar error about the longings of pregnant women." But is it quite certain that this is a vulgar error ? It has, of course, long been considered so t for as far back as 1765 a book was published entitled 'Letters on the Force of Imagina- tion in Pregnant Women, wherein it is proved that it is a ridiculous prejudice to suppose it possible for a Pregnant Woman to mark her child with the figure of any object she has longed for.'

Jacob's stratagem (Genesis xxx. 37-39) of preparing streaked rods, whereby "the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted," is a very ancient example of the belief of the power of imagination in such cases. It is not desirable to quote old Burton in full on a topic so congenial to him, so the following may suffice :

"Jacob the Patriarke, by force of imagination, made peckled Larobes, laying peckled roddes before his sheepe. Persina, that Ethiopian Queene in Heliodorus, by seeing the picture of Perseus and Andromeda, in steed of a Blackmoore, was brought to bed of a faire white child." "Ipsam faciem quam anirno effigiat, foetui inducit," and so on.

A note in Dr. Douglas's 'Criterion' (1754, p. 153) is very much to the point :