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the former gardens of the monks of West- minster, the name, as I put it, may not have seemed to me inappropriate, but it was no less a blunder.

The name " Musk Melons" appears to have been given to the fruit generally ('N.E.D.'). After Massinger had praised them as a delicacy procured at " the Neat House " in 1632, Strype in his extension of Stow's ' Survey,' noted in 1720 their continued cultivation in the same locality, and Dr. Johnson in his ' Dictionary ' describes them as " fragrant " fruit. W. L. RTJTTON.

TENNYSON AND ALDWOBTH. In a few months the centenary of Tennyson's birth will be celebrated. There will doubtless be many articles upon his life, with references to his death at Aldworth, on Blackdown. Since one frequently sees allusions to Tenny- son's " beautiful home in Surrey," it may as well be pointed out here that Aldworth is not in Surrey, but in Sussex.

H. DAVEY.

BABKLY WEST. In Taylor's ' Names and their Histories ' this small town is erroneously accounted for : " formerly called Griqua- land West." The latter is the name of the province in which Kimberley and the Diamond Fields are situated, and which was annexed to Cape Colony in 1880. Barkly West, besides designating the township, gives its name to one of the electoral districts, the others being Hay and Herbert. Cecil Rhodes sat for this constituency during his political life. Griqualand West is distin- guished from Griqualand East, a territory lying between Natal and Pindoland. The township of Barkly East is situated in the neighbourhood of Aliwal North.

N. W. HILL.

New York.

PHOTOGRAPHY AT LTTCKNOW : MAJOR E. R. WIGGINS. Major Edward Robert Wiggins, late of the Bengal Light Infantry, who died, aged eighty-nine, at Ryde on 2 April (see The Times 5 April), was the first person, British or Indian, who practised the art of photography in the city of Lucknow.

Lieut. Wiggins (as he then was) in 1853 was stationed in the cantonment of Muriaon, which lies to the north of the Residency, but is now deserted ; and equipped with all the best photographic outfit of that period, in the use of which he was an adept, he soon attracted the attention of his Majesty Wajid Ali Shah, the King of Oude. One of his Majesty's courtiers, the late Nawab Mushkoor-ud-Dowlah, became a pupil of

the Lieutenant, and attained great profi- ciency in the art. In fact, the King assigned a suitable portion of the grounds of the still existing Hosseinabad Emambarah for photo- graphic studio purposes, and caused a large and varied assortment of cameras, chemicals, and the like to be imported for this royal studio, which was in use until the annexa- tion of Oudh in 1856.

From this beginning in 1853 may be traced the sequence in Lucknow to the present day of many amateur and pro- fessional Indian photographers.

OLDENBUCK.

INSCRIPTIONS AT BELLAGIO. The follow- ing are in the tiny cemetery attached to the English church. The inscription on the outside of this cemetery wall alluded to in my former note (10 S. vii. 164) had in May, 1908, disappeared.

1. Richard Welbourn Hickton, ob. 16 May, 1881, a. 40.

2. Thomas, s. of John Robert and Mary Anne Elizabeth Wright, b. and ob. 16 Oct., 1876.

3. Louisa Einch Dawson, ob. 22 May, 1865.

4. A very long Latin inscription of which nearly all is illegible :

" Gulielmi. . . .apud Cant. . . .qui de terra Angl . . . .nobilissimi Com . . . . filio natu maximus .... Hierosolymisque rediens .... febre voto fidelis .... ob. (16?) July, 18(?), a. 26, flentes parentes et Maria Beddome."

5. An upright marble cross. An inscription on the base is illegible.

6. Beatrice Charlotte Sillifant, ob. St. Peters Day, 1880, a. 15.

7. The Rev. John Moran, minister of Belmonfc Church, Belfast, ob. 10 June, 1880.

G. S. PABBY, Lieut-Col. 18, Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne.

LITTLE RUSSELL STREET, COVENT GABDEN, The widening of this thoroughfare by the setting back of the north side between Drury Lane and Bow Street has necessitated the demolition of a number of interesting buildings. Perhaps in the desire to im- mortalize " The Harp Tavern " and the Scottish Church less important buildings will be overlooked, so I call attention to No. 24, which was removed last year.

The history of the business that was carried on here for 170 years was given at length in The Chemist and Druggist of 31 Jan., 1903, and this, with some interesting illustrations, was reissued as a pamphlet by Mr. Warren. Externally there was nothing to suggest the age of the building. Its large windows and stuccoed front were probably the result of a rebuilding about 1860, but at the back in the shop parlour, and in the basement, there was much of a