Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 2.djvu/596

 402

NOTES AND QUERIES. [10* s. 11. DEC. 17, 190*.

tors, and Architects' (translated by Mrs. Jonathan Foster, Bohn, 1852, vol. v. p. 457), says :

"I have heard some mention of a certain Lodo- vico, a Florentine sculptor, who, as I am told, has produced good works in England, and at Bari, but as I know nothing of his kindred or family name, and have not seen any of his productions, I cannot (as I fain would) do more than allude to him by these few words."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

GALILEO PORTRAIT (10 th S. ii. 426). There is a portrait of Galileo by Sustermans in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence ; also, I believe, one or more in the corridors running from the Uffizi to the Pitti. At the Torre di Gallo, about a mile from the Porta Komana (Flo- rence), which Galileo used as an observatory, there is a collection of portraits, engraved and otherwise, in the museum kept by the Government, in the room he occupied and which leads to his tower observatory.

HARRY H. PEACH.

MR. WATSON should compare the picture with prints such as he would find at the British Museum, &c. There is a fine line engraving of the astronomer by Cipriani after Sustermans, executed about 1830 ; also one by Ramsay and another by Vendersypon. A. E. WHITEHOUSE.

49, Knightsbridge, S.W. ,

In the Bodleian Library at Oxford there is a portrait of Galileo, the painter of which is, I believe, unknown. Inquiries of the librarian would doubtless meet with atten- tion. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

PRESCRIPTIONS (10 th S. i. 409, 453 ; ii. 56, 291, 355).- DR. EDWARD NICHOLSON gives an ingenious account of the origin of the symbol for scruple, but he founds his remarks" upon the assumption that the scruple and gramma were the same, giving, however, no authority for his opinion. In my communication ante, . 291, the word feomys should have been eo-r?79, an error I perceived too late to correct. None of the communications at the last reference appears to me to have added anything to my reply just mentioned. The statement of PROF. STRONG that " surely the word drachma is derived from Spao-o-o/iou, I grasp," merely repeats what I had already said CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

GOVERNOR STEPHENSON OF BENGAL (10 th S. ii. 348, 437). Mr. S. 0. Hill's 'List of Europeans and others in Bengal at the Time of the Siege of Calcutta, 1756' (Calcutta, Gov. Press, 1902), gives at p. 85 the following

information about the Capt. Francis Stephen- son, or Stevenson, who was in the Black Hole :

" Sea-captain. Member of the Court of Requests. Letter appended to Public Proceedings, 18th Jan., 1756. Holwell says he died in the Black Hole. The Fulta lists say that he was a seafaring man and killed in the attack. Orme says he was a Free Merchant."

A Miss Rosalie Toumac, whom I believe to have been the child of the " Mrs. Toumac and child " who escaped to the ships in Fulta, married en secondes noces a Mr. Stevenson (Christian name not known), whose brothers were Daniel Stevenson, a merchant at Tran- quebar (1754-1806), and Major-General James Daniel Stevenson, a friend of the Duke of Wellington's, who fought at Seringapatam, and died 14 February, 1805. Mrs. Stevenson, nata Toumac, was born 4 June, 1754, and died at Tranquebar, 5 June, 1782. Her first husband was George Frederick Fischer, a ship's captain, whose sister Wendela (1730-61) became the first wife of the Rev. J. Z. Kier- nander (1710-99). She had a son Edward William Stevenson, master attendant at Cuddalore and Porto Novo (1779-1823).

JULIAN COTTON. Palazzo Arlotta, Chiatamone, Naples.

'TRACTS FOR THE TIMES' (10 th S. ii. 347, 398, 452). As stated at the last reference, article on the * Tracts,' with a list of authors appended. It is stated "that it has been found impossible to obtain a complete list of the writers ; even the venerable Cardinal, their editor, is unable to supply all the names." The writers of sixty-eight of the ninety Tracts are given. If W. G H. cannot obtain the list himself, I shall be pleased to forward a list of those given in 4 Whitaker,* or can send him a copy of the 'Almanack.' ROLAND AUSTIN.
 * Whitaker's Almanack ' for 1883 contains an

Public Library, Gloucester.

PHILIP D'AUVERGNE, 1754-1816 (10 th S. ii. 427). According to the * Armorial of Jersey/ Philip d'Auvergne, Esq., of the branch of St. Ouen,  married, 1758, Jane, daughter of Edward Ricard, Esq., King's Receiver. F. E. T.

MRS. ARKWRIGHT'S SETTING OF * THE PIRATE'S FAREWELL' (10 th S. ii. 448). The above is not included in "Twelve Popular Songs, written by Mrs. Hemans, composed by her Sister," published as No. 102 of Chappell's Musical Magazine. No. 29 of the same series is described as "Ten Contralto Songs, by Mrs. Arkwright, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, &c.," and may possibly contain the?