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titled, The Power of the Mother's Imagination over the Fcetus examined. To which is added, The Twelfth Chapter of the first Part of a Treatise De Morbis Cutaneis, as it was printed therein many Years past- In a Letter to Dr. Bloridel. By Daniel Turner, of the College of Physicians, London. London : Printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, J. Clarke, T. Ward and E. Wicksteed. 1730.

I have given the orthography and punc- tuation of the title-page as it lies before me at this writing.

FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN.

537, Western Avenue, Albany, N.Y.

A dealer in animals (whose name I regret to say I have forgotten, though I was one of his regular customers) had a shop on the right-hand side of the High Street of Eton, &s you went towards Windsor. About the year 1857 he showed me the stuffed head of a, red and white calf. On the top of the head was a spherical protuberance, covered with skin and hair like the rest of the animal. This globular mass was about the size of a football. The proprietor's explanation was that a football had been kicked on to the head of a pregnant cow, and that the excres- cence in the calf had been caused by her fear. The explanation may have been erroneous ; but I can vouch for the excrescence. Perhaps some other old Etonian may recall the dealer's name, in which case I should be glad to have my memory refreshed.

FRANK REDE FOWKE.

See L'Intermediaire, xxxiii.-xxxv., under
 * Envies de Femmes Enceintes.'

O. O. H.

THE FIRST WIFE OF WARREN HASTINGS (10 th S. i. 426).-SYDNEY C. GRIER'S com- munication places the information in 'The Private Life of Warren Hastings,' by Sir Charles Lawson (London, 1895), anent the name of the lady who in 1756 became the wife of the young man who rose from a clerkship to be the first Governor-General of India, in the category of erroneous assump- tions. According to Sir Charles Lawson, Warren Hastings married in 1756, not the widow of Capt. John Buchanan, but the widow of Capt. Campbell, of the Company's service, who bore him two children a daughter who lived but nineteen days and a son who died young. Mrs. Hastings died at Cossimbazar, when her husband was Resi- dent at that station (see p. 35).

HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, S. W.

SYDNEY GRIER mentions the marriage of Wan> en Hastings to " Mary, widow of Capt. John Luchanan, one of the victims of the

Black Hole," in the cold weather of 1756-7 and states that she died at Moradbagh in 1759'

Col. Malleson, in his ' Life of Warren Hastings,' p. 33, writes :

"Among the ladies at Falta [a village near the confluence of the Hugli and Damuda rivers] was the widow of a Capt. Campbell, of the Company's service, and she by her sweet manner and genial sympathy attracted the attention cf Mr. Hastings, who soon became engaged to her,"

and after the relief of Calcutta "married her." This undoubtedly took place in the winter of 1756-7.

At the close of 1757, Mr. and Mrs. Hastings proceeded to Kasimbazar, on his appointment as second in Council with Mr. Scrafton, the English representative at the Court of the Nawab, Mir Jafar Ali Khan. There, in the silk factory as Kasimbazar, Hastings and his wife resided. In his letter to his old patron Mr. Chiswick, written at the end of 1758, after referring to the birth of his two children, he adds :

"I have already informed you of my appointment as second in Council at the factory of Kasimbazar, where my family have continued to reside from my appointment to this place."

The two children were a daughter (born on 5 October, 1758, and died on 28 idem), and a son, George, who was sent to England in 1761, and died there three years later. Malle- son at p. 36 writes :

" The first news which greeted Hastings on his arrival in P]ngland in 1765 was that of the death of his only son. His wife had been taken even earlier. The inscription on her tomb at Barhumpur, seven miles from Moorshedabad, records her death as having occurred on 11 July, 1759."

Capt. Trotter, in his memoir of Warren Hastings ("Rulers of India" Series), writes at p. 19 :

"At Falta, in the cool season, [he] married the widow of Capt. Campbell, who had come over with Kilpatrick from Madras, only to die of the prevalent disease. The two seem to have lived happily together till the lady's death in 1759. Her first child had died in infancy, and the second survived her but a few years."

Malleson and Trotter concur that the first husband of Mrs. Hastings was Capt. Camp- bell, and not Capt. Buchanan, as mentioned by SYDNEY GRIER.

As to her death and burial, SYDNEY GRIER states that "Moradbagh" was the place where she died. I venture to think this may be a mistake for Moorshedabad, a populous Mohammedan city one mile only from Kasim- bazar, and seven miles from the civil and military station of Barhampur, where Malle- son says her tomb records her death as having occurred on 11 July, 1759.

This, too, is a mistake. When I was at