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and Boswell met in Skye in September, 1773 (Boswell's 'Johnson,' ed. Birkbeck Hill, v. 149, 163), it was suggested, I think, that common Aberdeenshire name, and that John Innes, the well-known anatomist, was the tnan. It seems, however, very possible that the following passage from Gough's ' British Topography ' (ed. 1780, ii. 634) may supply the clue, especially when we take into con- sideration the fact that Johnson, who also mentions meeting " Mr. Janes " (' A. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland,' ' Works,' ed. 1825, ix. 45), describes him as a " fossilist." Gough's reference runs thus :
 * Janes" might be a misprint for Innes, a

"John Jeans, of Aberdeen, a great adept in the mineral kingdom, remarkable for his travelling over all this country annually on foot, composed very sensible 'General directions for discovering metals, minerals, gems, &c.,' describing by the oolour of the earth and springs in Scotland where these may probably be found. Were this essay nlarged ana printed, these inquiries might lead to the public good."

I hazard the suggestion that " Jeans " might be pronounced so as to sound like " Janes." There is no mention of Jeans in the first edition of Gough's ' British Tppography,' 1768. After a rather diligent search I have failed to discover any published work or paper of John Jeans, and all efforts to find any further mention of him, either as Jeans or Janes, have proved fruitless. Yet " Mr. Janes," a native of Aberdeenshire, a "naturalist" or have been with James Ferguson, the astro- nomer, at Dr. Johnson's in London in 1769 {Boswell's ' Johnson,' ii. 99 ; v. 149). Can you or any of your readers throw any further light on this somewhat misty personage 1 H. SPENCER SCOTT.
 * ' fossilist," was of sufficient importance to

THE VAGHNATCH, OR TIGER-CLAW WEAPON (10 th S. i. 408). Sivaji's dagger now rests in the South Kensington Museum. See Lord Egerton's 'A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour,' 1896, No. 476, p. 115, an illustration on plate xv. M. J. D. COCKLE.

Solan, Punjab.

BYRONIANA (10 th S. i. 488). The ' Sequel to Don Juan ' is by G. W. M. Reynolds, the author of 'The Mysteries of London.' If W. B. H. will compare the lines I quote from memory beginning

'Twas midnight, and the beam of Cynthia shone, with some to be found in the first volume of the first series of ' M. of L.,' he will, I think, be convinced. P. J. F. GANTILLON.

"SAL ET SALIVA" (10 th S. i. 368, 431, 514). I may perhaps be permitted to say there

is a good deal on the subject in my 'Folk- Medicine : a Chapter on the History of Cul- ture,' London, 1883.

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. Dowanhill (hardens, Glasgow.

At the famous salt mines of Cardona in Catalufia, the property of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, one sees, among other ornaments and curiosities that are carved out of the mineral, salt sticks in the shape of a small obelisk. These are exported for use in the Catholic rite of baptism, when their crystal tip is inserted in the lips of the christened.

E. S. DODGSON.

DAUGHTERS OF JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND (10 th S. i. 507). On comparing Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's 'Peerage of Scotland' (1813) with the 'D.N.B.,' I arrive at the following list :

1. Margaret (1424-45), married the Dauphin of France (after her death Louis XL), and died without issue.

2 Elizabeth or Isabel, betrothed in 1441 to Francis, Count of Montfort, whom she married the next year, when he had become by his father's death Duke of Bretagne ; she was alive in 1494, and had two daughters, viz., Margaret, who marrying her cousin, Francis II., Duke of Bretagne, died without issue in 1469, and Marie, who, marrying (in the same year as her sister, 1455) John, Viscount de Rohan, left issue.

3. Alexander and James, twins, born at Holyrood House, 16 October, 1430, of whom the former died young, and the latter suc- ceeded his father as James II. He was descended from both Robert Bruce and Edward I. of England.

4. Joan or Janet, who, although dumb, married James Douglas, Lord Dalkeith. I he Livingstons, Viscounts of Kilsyth, were apparently descended from this James Douglas, " the King's brother."

5. Eleanor, married in 1449 Archduke Sigismund of Austria, the German Maecenas, without issue.

6. Mary, who while still a child was married in 1444 to Wolfram von Borselen, Lord of Camp-Vere in Zealand, ^and, in right of his wife, Earl of Buchan in Scotland.

7. Annabella, betrothed in 1444 to Philip, Count of Geneva, second son of Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, the anti-pope Felix of the Council of Basle, but married George Gordon, second Earl of Huntly, by whom she had tour sons and six daughters. Her eldest son, Alexander, was third earl ; her second, Adam, ancestor of the Earls and Dukes of Suther- land ; her third, William, ancestor of George