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some notes by T. T. Wilkinson on eleven volumes of mathematical manuscripts left by Swale. The MSS. were then in the possession of Swale's son. Mr. Wilkinson made the suggestion that they should be deposited in some public library. I am not aware that the hint was acted upon.

C. W. SUTTON.

Swale was a professor of mathematics at Liverpool, and as such makes his first appearance in the ' Liverpool Directory ' for 1811, being resident at 2, Seymour Street. By 1813 he had taken a house in Epworth Street, a new street off the main road out of Liverpool, near the hamlet of Lowhill (1| miles in a direct line from Liverpool To~wn Hall), towards which the town was at this period beginning to extend. Here he lived till his decease. TiH 1825 he .is described as above, but in the directories for 1825-7-9-32 he appears as "gentleman." In 1835, the last year of his record in the directories, he is again ' ' professor of mathematics."

His wife appears to have been named Elizabeth, and they had a son, of the same names as the father, who became an account- ant. By 1857 no person of this name is in the Liverpool directories.

By advertisement of 12 Dec., 1823, The Liverpool Apollonius is "just published.' 2 The second number is advertised on 31 Dec., 1824, as "published this day,' ? with the note "to be continued. '* The booksellers of the first number were in Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and Edinburgh. To these is added for the second number one bookseller in London. J. H. K.

TMR. A, H. ARKLE also thanked for reply.]

BRIGHTON VISITORS IN 1779 (11 S. i. 68). Dr. Richard Russel, an eminent physician, laid the foundation of Brighton's prosperity by calling attention to its advantages as a health resort. It owes its celebrity, how- ever, to George IV., then Prince Regent, who first visited it in 1782, and every summer and autumn for many years in succession. His palace The Pavilion, begun in 1784, was completed in 1787. Until 1784 the buildings of Brighton are said to have been com- paratively mean. It is extremely improbable that any Visitors' List was in existence before 1782. W. SCOTT.

A careful search among the files of con- temporary newspapers in the Burney Col- lection at the British Museum would bring to light the names of the more distinguished

or notorious visitors to Brighton in 1779. In many cases this information will be found under the head of 'Brighton News. 1 I should recommend The Public Advertiser, The General Advertiser, The St. James's Chronicle, and The Morning Post. Of course the task is somewhat laborious.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

"PLOUGH INN" AT LONGHOPE (11 S. i. 146). Also in the Dean Forest Division of Gloucestershire is "The New Zealand Inn," below Pleasant Style, in the parish of Newn- ham, where a celebrated Primrose League landlady maintains a similar inscription.

HENRY ETOUGH (10 S. xii. 430; 11 S. i. 76). Mr. 'Tyson made an etching of the head of this gentleman, who was " as remarkable for the eccentricities of his charac- ter as for his personal appearance,' 1 and Gray wrote an epigram upon it, with the title ' Tophet,' calling him a " grisly prose- lyte," and concluding that " Satan's self had thoughts of taking orders " (Gray's ' Works,' ed. Mason, 1827, p. 430). Etough was Rector of Therfield, Herts, and of Colmworth, Beds, and died in August, 1757, aged seventy (Gent. Mag., Iv. 759, Ivi. 25, 281, 835 ; Musgrave's ' Obituary,' ii. 281). W. C. B.

WALSH SURNAME: " GH " PRONOUNCED AS " SH " (10 S. xii. 446 ; 11 S. i. 53, 96). I am obliged to PROF. SKEAT for his out- spoken criticism. It would require more than ordinary courage to cross swords with a scholar of his position. But he has made one or two assertions which I must answer. I know Brugmann's ' Grundriss * quite well, but I fail to find in it any such dogmatic statements about Aryan phonetic laws in general, or the word "daughter"' in particular, as the learned Professor has made. He states that an ' ' entirely new subject has been started " by me. How is it entirely new ? The question discussed was really the pronunciation of gh as sh ; and I hazarded the conjecture that original Indo- European contained the gutturals kh and gh (like Semitic khe and ghain], which subse- quently became palatal sh in Sanskrit. Now no scholar has yet positively shown how many gutturals there were in Indo- European ; nor, even with regard to those that are known, is it certain how they were pronounced. At p. 42 of his ' Sanskrit Grammar l (1889) Whitney says: "The Sanskrit guttural series represents only a