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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. AUG. 27, MM.

Bulloch. They are extracted from the * Im- perial Russian Navy List,' which has been left to Mr. Fred. Jane to catalogue.

EGBERT MURDOCH LAWRANCE. 71, Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen.

ANTIQUARY v. ANTIQUARIAN (10 th S. i. 325, 396). Before submitting to the sentence pronounced upon it, may not the culprit ^'antiquarian as a substantive" ask the reasons for its condemnation? That there are still Englishmen recognizing it as such even its accusers grant; that there exist in the English language words formed with -ian and -arian which are used substantively and adjectiyely nobody can deny e.g., Christian, vegetarian, Carthusian, Presbyterian, Indian, Italian, Russian, &c. Then is not what is sauce for the goose sauce also for the gander ? I have always looked upon the tendency of English to make verbs, substantives, adjec- tives, even adverbs, uniform, as an excellent means to make it handy. Perhaps some abler advocate than a foreigner will stand up for the poor antiquarian.

G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

The Society of Antiquaries was, I think, originally known as the Antiquarian Society, and members used the abbreviation F.A.S. instead of, as now, F.S.A. This was in Wai- pole's day; but COL. PRIDEAUX is no doubt correct in denying that the society ever styled itself the " Society of Antiquarians."

J. H. MACMlCHAEL.

I venture to mention that the word " anti- quary" (and not "antiquarian") appears in that charming story entitled ' What will He dowithlt?' byEdward,LordLytton,historical novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist, editor, .and, last and not least, Secretary of State for the Colonies when Benjamin Disraeli was ^Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. (By the way, was a great genius ever more bitterly attacked during his lifetime than the author of 'Pelham"?) In the following extract two -characters use antiquary, the first speaker being Dick Fairthorn :

"'Your poor dear father was a great anti- quary. How it would have pleased him, could he have left a fine collection of antiquities as an heirloom to the nation ! his name thus preserved for ages, and connected with the studies of ,his life. "There are the Elgin Marbles. Why not in the British Museum an everlasting Darrell Room ? Plenty to stock it mouldering yonder in the -chambers which you will never finish/ ' My dear Dick,' said Darrell, starting up, 'give me your hand. What a brilliant thought ! I could do nothing else to preserve my dear father's name.

Eureka ! You are right. Remove the boards ; open the chambers : we will inspect their stores, and select what would worthily furnish "A Darrell Room." Perish Guy Darrell the lawyer ! Philip Darrell the antiquary at least shall live.'" Vol. ii. pp. 143-4, Knebworth Edition.

The italics are mine.

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

WOFFINGTON (10 th S. ii. 88). For this name Dr. G. W. Marshall, Rouge Croix, in 'The Genealogist's Guide,' refers the reader to ' N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. i. 38, 156. A. R. BAYLEY.

Is not this a variant spelling of Offington and Uffington, commonly said to be Offa's town 1 ? The Domesday Uluredintone, alias Oluritona, now appears as Werrington ; Ulurintone, alias Olurintpna, as Worlington. The Exeter Domesday, in both the names cited, has an O where the Exchequer copy has a U. Odetona is now Woodington.

OSWALD J. REICHEL.

A la Ronde, Lympstone, Devon.

BLACK DOG ALLEY, WESTMINSTER (10 th S. ii. 5, 118). As one who has been long a student of London topography, the writer may be able to throw some light, even if from afar, upon the locality inquired about by MR. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY, namely, Black Dog Alley, Westminster. He will find the alley described in Dodsley's encyclopaedic work 'London and its Environs,' &c. (London. 1761, 6'vols.), where it appears upon the accompanying map, together with Barton and Cowley Streets, then recently laid out. Upon the large and elegantly engraved map of London, in three sheets, published by the Homanns of Nuremberg, as of 1736, the Black Dog Alley appears, but not the streets above named. It therefore antedates them. The alley does not appear upon the map of John Senex, as revised in 1720, although the scale of that map is sufficiently large to have shown it, if it had been in existence. Too much stress cannot be laid upon this, however, as the map of Senex is carelessly drawn as to details, omitting, for example, such a street as Crooked Lane, New Fish Street.

Upon the map of Joannes dePtam, however, published at Amsterdam about 1689-90, but representing a period approximating to the year 1680, not only is the alley not shown, but the topographical details of the ground there delineated would appear to preclude the idea that the alley existed at all at that time (at any rate, as a passage from street to street), though there is a large building shown upon this last map situated near this point, and well to the east of the Bowling