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and are conveyed by the blood to every part of the body, slaying on their way every evil germ they encounter.

MR. REGINALD JACOBS will find much to interest him in a long article on ' Kitchen Lilies ' in Chamber s's Journal for 1900, p. 455, from which I have culled much of the above. Science Gossip for 1874, p. 123, should also be consulted.

Doctors have differed widely through the ages as to the properties of the onion. Asclepiades of Bithynia and his followers sang its praises, while Plin}^ states that, in his day, physicians considered the vegetable most injurious to the heart and other organs.

I remember to have read somewhere that onion-sellers shared with tobacconists in being unharmed by the Great Plague of 1665. CHARLES GILLMAN.

Church Fields, Salisbury.

ATLANTIS AND LEMURIA (11 S.xii.86, 145). The literature of Atlantis is extensive. That relating to Lemuria is scanty, but there are occasional references to Lemuria in some of the books relating to Atlantis.

The first naturalist who attempted a solution of the Atlantis problem was Franz Unger (born 1800, died 1870), Professor ot Botany at Gratz. linger 's treatise is called Versunkene Insel.' Heer, the Swiss naturalist, elaborated Unger's theories, which were afterwards dealt with by A. R. Wallace in ' Island Life.' In .November, 1902, Mr. R. F. Scharff wrote a valuable paper for the Royal Irish Academy, which is printed in their Pro- ceedings for 1902-4 (vol. xxiv.). It is called w Some Remarks on the Atlantis Problem.' A good list of scientific authori- ties is appended to the article. In addition to whatever is referred to in this paper there have been several articles in Nature, especially in vols. xv. and xxvii. At the first reference will be found *a paper upon Atlantis with reference to the " Challenger " soundings, and in vol. xxvii. there is an article by Sir Archibald Geikie. Another scientist, St. George Mivart, contributed to vol. Ixv. of The Fortnightly Review a paper upon ' Atlantis.'

The study of the subject was greatly stimulated in 1882 by the issue by Harpers (New York) of Ignatius Donnelly's ' At- lantis : the Antediluvian World.' This book presented the subject in a more popular form than hitherto, and raised questions which brought forth numerous books upon the subject. Lord Arundell

of Wardour published ' The Secret of Plato's Atlantis ' in 1885. This was the subject of a critical article in The Dublin Review for July, 1886. In the October issue of the same year Lord ArundelL replied to the criticisms in a signed article. In the Royal Historical Society's Pro- ceedings, vol. xiii., Mr. H. Clarke published tis.' This was afterwards issued separately. A. F. R. Knoetel's ' Atlantis und das Volk der Atlanten ' was issued in Leipzig in 1893, and Mr. W. S. Elliot, a theosophi- cal writer, published in 1896 The Story of Atlantis.' Rosny's ' Atlantid His- torique' appeared in 1902, and Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne made the subject of Atlantis the basis of his story ' The Lost Continent,' 1900.
 * An Examination of the Legend of Atlan-

I should have said that Donnelly prints Plato's remarks upon the subject in full. This should be compared with Jowett's Introduction to the ' Timseus ' of Plato and Thomas Henri Martin's ' Etudes sur le Timee,' 1841. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

CLERKS IN HOLY ORDERS AS COMBATANTS (11 S. xii. 10, 56, 73, 87, 110, 130, 148). In John Aubrey's ' Miscellanies ' (4th ed., London, 1857) I find at pp. 46-7 :

" The last battle fought in the North of Ireland, between the Protestants and the Papists, was in Glinsuly, near Letterkenny, in the county of Donegal!. Veneras, the Bishop of Clogher, was general of the Irish army ; and that of the Parlia- ment army, Sir Charles Coot."

The Rev. James MacCaffrey, S.T.L., of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, writing in; ' The Catholic Encyclopaedia,' vol. iv. p. 60, says :

" Heber or Emer MacMahon ([Bishop of Clcgher, 1643-50) took a prominent part in the war of the Irish Confederates, and on the death of Owen Roe O'Neill was chosen general of the Con- federate forces. He was defeated at Scariffhollis,- near Letterkenny, taken prisoner by Coote, and beheaded at Enniskillen.V'H

Probably the most famous priest-soldier of the nineteenth century was the Ty roles e patriot Johann Simon Haspinger "(b. 28 Oct., 1776 ; d. 12 Jan., 1858). His name in religion (he was a Capuchin friar) was Joachim. There is a very interesting account of him in ' The Catholic Encyclopaedia,' vol. vii. p. 147-8.

I do not know whether the original query was meant to include priests who renounced their orders or were excommunicated. If so, mention should be made of Giuseppe Bassi, in religion Ugo, sometime a Barnabiter or a member of the Congregation of the