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free to recreate the infantry. There was no india-rubber about it : the nourishing fluid was poured in through an orifice in the upper side of the article, and it had to be sucked out through a calf's teat at a neck or nozzle. ST. SWITHIN.

Feeding-bottles were in use more than ten years before 1858. I well remember the time when I saw one for the first time, as I regarded it as a most cunning invention. It was made of glass, and in use in a farm- house in this immediate neighbourhood. I cannot give the date, but it was not later than 1845, and may have been two or three years earlier. The word " suck-bottle " is new to me." EDWARD PEACOCK.

Kirton-in-Lindsey.

It is strange there should be no known mention of feeding - bottles before 1858. They are certainly very much older than that, but it was at about that date that one O'Connell brought out the modern sort with india-rubber tubes. The older sort were fooat-shaped, and had corks and teats only, the teats being made of calfskin.

C. C. B.

See more under ' Feeding-bottles ' at 9 S. ii. 409, 477. W. C. B.

In * The Family Doctor ; or, Encyclo- paedia of Domestic Medicine ' undated, but presumably published between 1860 and 1870 is the following:

" We think it well to advert to a useful invention, viz., Taylor's India - Rubber Tubes for Feeding Infants, which do not require to be tied on the bottles, and are adapted for any kind of bottle or food, however thick. Vol. ii. p. 36.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

"ABBEY": "ABBAYE," A Swiss CLUB (10 S. viii. 148). M. Alexandre Maurer, Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Lausanne, has kindly furnished me with information on this term. He
 * ays :

"Je me suis adresse a un certain norabre de personnes qui font autqrite dans les questions rela- tives aux societes de tir, et elles m'ont affirme' que 1'emploi du mot abbaye au sens de soci^te de tir est courant dans le canton de Vaud, et qu'il y est ancien. La societ de tir de Montreux, par exemple, s'appelle 1'Abbaye des Echarnes - Blanches. One societe fondee a Lausanne vers la fin du dix-septieme siecle pour maintenir les traditions du tir a 1'arc, et qui esb encore prospere aujourd'hui, porte le npm d' Abbaye de 1'Arc. Filiation probable corporation religieuse : corporation lai'que (surtout depuis le Reforme du seizieme siecle) : corporation militaire : corporation de tireurs. Exemples probants pour

les deux derniers sens : 1'Abbaye des Soldats hel- vetiques et Grenadiers vaudois, 1'Abbaye des Grenadiers de Lausanne (fondee en 1816), 1 Abbaye de Lausanne (fondee en 1844 sous le nom d' Abbaye militaire). A noter pour la laicisation progressive du terme 1'emploi vaudois du mot abbaye pour ker- messe de village, et 1'emploi fran9ais du terme dans ' Abbaye des s'offre a tous ' pour designer une maison conventuelle ou se trouvent enfermees de jolies filles qui ne pourraient pas jouir le role de vestales."

A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.

"MOKE," A DONKEY: NICKNAMES OF THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS (10 S. vii. 68, 115, 257, 415, 473). I have heard the A.S.C. called Ally Sloper's Cavalry. F. H. C.

The following from The Army and Navy Gazette of 25 May may be worth recording :

" The 56th were called ' The Pompadours ' be cause its old purple facings were the favourite colour of the famous Madame de Pompadour. The 58th were called ' Steelbacks ' on account of the unflinching manner in which the men took floggings. The 68th became known as the 'Faithful Durhams ' because of their steadfastness in the desultory operations against the Caribs in the West Indies in 1764, when the regiment suffered much hardship."

G. K.

"WY" IN HAMPSHIRE (10 S. vii. 508; viii. 54, 158). MR. C. S. JERRAM, by a slip, refers to " the main line of the South- western Railway, which runs from London to Exeter." It should be more correctly defined as connecting the former with Plymouth. Originally the main line was that from London to Southampton. The one from Basingstoke (or really Worting Junction) to Salisbury was a branch. Of course, for nearly half a century the latter has been incorporated into what is as mentioned the actual main line, and the Southampton portion has, for many years, lost its prior distinctive designation.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

NEWSPAPERS c. 1817-27 (10 S. viii. 170). MR. CECIL HUDSON will find all the following newspapers, published during the dates he requires, in the Newspaper Room at the British Museum : The Times, The Mornirg Post, The Morning Herald, The Morning Chronicle, The New Times, The Morning Advertiser, The British Press, The Examiner, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Englishman, Bell's Weekly Messenger, Bell's Weekly Dispatch, Pierce Egan's Life in London, John Bull, The Globe and Traveller, The Courier and The Sun.

Street's 'Newspaper Directory ' will supply