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 ns.x.DEc.12,1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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C. J. Tarring (Chief Justice of Grenada) ; the

honour of Knighthood. Capt. A. E. Wood ; elected City Marshal. Lancelot Hare, C.S.I., C.I.E. ( Lieutenant-Go vernor

of Eastern Bengal and Assam) ; K.C.S.I.

1908. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith ; Prime Minister of

England.

Lionel Abrahams; C.B. (v. 1910). G. M. Bailhach-; K.C. (v. 1911). Robert Chalmers, C.B. ; K.C.B. (v. 1910, 1912). Ralph Knott ; prize design for the New County

Hall for London. Prof. W. H. Sollas, F.R.S. ; President of the

Geological Society. G. A. Stevenson, M.V.O. ; C.B.

1909.

A. Kean ; elected President of the Architectural Association.

E. S. Montagu ; Under-Secretary of State for India (v. 1910).

Dr. J. G. Simpson ; appointed to a canonry of Manchester (v. 1910).

1910.

Lionel Abrahams; Assistant Under-Secretary of State for India.

J. Auchterlonie ; appointed Professor of Philo- sophy at Aligarh, India.

Sir Robert Chalmers ; appointed Permanent Secretary to the Treasury (v. 1912).

A. G. Collins; C.M.G.

M. Delevigne; C.B. (v. 1912).

G. L. Gomme; Knighthood (v. 1912).

Hon. E. S. Montagu; Parliamentary Under-Secre- tary of State for India.

Dr. Sidney Lee; Knighthood (v. 1912).

Rev. J. G. Simpson, D.D. ; appointed to a canonry of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Sir William Soulsby, C.B., C.I.E. ; appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England.

1911.

The Rev. Dr. Edwin Abbott Abbott ; elected an Hon. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

The Rev. Canon H. C. Beeching, D.Litt. ; ap- pointed Dean of Norwich.

A. E. Bendall ; appointed Joint-Examiner of Plays.

R. H. Candy, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; first place in the examination for Commis- sionors in H.M. Indian Army Medical Service.

P. E. Matheson, M.A. ; appointed on the Commis- sion which is inquiring into the methods of appointments to the Civil Service.

W. Cawthorne Unwin, LL.D. (Edin.), F.R.S. ; elected President of the Institute of Civil Engineers.

C. M. Bailhache, K.C. ; honour of Knighthood ; appointed a Judge of the High Court.

1912.

Sir Robert Chalmers, K.C.B. (Hon. Degree of LL.D., Glasgow University ; Permanent Secre- tary to the Treasury) ; appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon.

L. R. Farnell, M.A., D.Litt. (Grocers' Company Scholar of the School) ; elected Rector of Exeter College, Oxford ; Hon. Litt.D., Dublin University.

Sir Laurence Gomme ; appointed Clerk to the Lieutenancy of the County of London.

Sir Sidney Lee, D.Litt., LL.D., Litt.D., F.B.A. ; appointed Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of London.

W.H. Perkin, jun., F.R.S. (Professor of Chemistry in Manchester University) ; appointed Wayn- flete Professor of Chemistry, Oxford.

Rev. F. S. Webster (Sir David Salomons and Fish- mongers' Scholar of the School) ; appointed a Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Malcolm Delevigne, C.B. (Carpenter and Grocers' Scholar of the School); Assistant Under-Secre- tary of State for the Home Department.

R. W. James ; appointed Physicist to the Shackle- ton Antarctic Expedition.

S. Smith (Scholar of Queens' College, Cambridge) ; appointed Assistant in the Department of Assyriology in the British Museum.

Dr. F. H. Thiele, M.O., B.Sc., F.R.C.P. ; ap- pointed Lecturer in Bacteriology and Immunity at University College Hospital Medical School, and Pathologist at University College Hospital.

George Warrington Steevens, war corre- spondent and author, who died in Lady- smith, was also a City of London School boy. F. A. LINDSAY-SMITH.

AMERICAN SLANG: " NIXIE " (11 S. x. 329). "Nix" is German "nichts," and was caught in the first form by Americans fro n Geiman immigrants about the forties. " Nixcumarouse " (" Nicht komm' heraus "'), from a frequent warning to intrusively curious children, was common in my boy- hood, and is used in the ' Orpheus C. Kerr Papers,' first series, as attributed jargon of a German recruit in the Civil War. " Nixie " is derived from " nix " by the same process as " nopey " from " nope," which I discussed a while ago, and does not mean " nothing," but " no, indeed, "or, in present slang, "not on your life." It has moved up rather into a semi -jocular colloquialism : " Going to vote for So-and-so ? " " Nixie ! ' " Have you any postage stamps handy ? " Nixie." " Nixy, cully " (" No, you swab "), was common in New York about 1880 ; the comic -paper form was " Nixiculi."

FORREST MORGAN.

Hartford, Conn.

"Nixie" is one of the words mentioned and discussed by E. VALDES. He assumes that it is miners' slang and equivalent to " nothing." He is quite correct as to the meaning of the word, but I am inclined to doubt that the word is miners' slang. The word " nix " = nothing is not uncommon in many parts of this country, and would be understood nearly everywhere by any one at all acquainted with the non-literary speech of the community. It is quite probable that "nixie," having the same significance and of presumably as frequent