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says, be very easily taken for scolopendrae. They have also a ileshy trunk, often very volu- minous, and so flexible that it can be extended or withdrawn, according to the necessities of the animal. It is this trunk, Cuvier thinks, that gave occasion to the story that it could disgorge its entrails, and then swallow them again."

By the way, I may note here that every Japanese living near the sea is quite familiar with the peculiarity of the native trepang '(Stichopus japonicus) to vomit forth its intestines and perish soon after being taken out of sea -Water. Also it was formerly "believed in this part that the toad forced to swallow tobacco-juice would vomit all its guts, carry them in its mouth to the nearest Water, wash them thoroughly, and then gulp them down, so as to make them reoccupy their normal places in its body.

KUMAGI^U MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

SPENCER'S PATENT CLIP (11 S. vii. 190). Herbert Spencer's " binding pin," as he <;alls it, is fully described in his ' Autobio- graphy,' vol. i. pp. 306 and 544. It was not patented, but was registered in the name of Ackerman as a " useful design " under an Act of Parliament repealed many years ago. The binder was intended for insertion in the fold of unstitched periodicals, so as to hold them together at the top and bottom. About twenty-five years ago this " binding pin " arrived in England from New York as the latest Yankee notion, but I have not seen it on sale for some time past. I enclose two home-made specimens, which perhaps you will kindly forward to your correspond- ent, R. B. P.

REFERENCE AND QUOTATION WANTED {11 S. vii. 288). The quotation is correct, and will be found in Sir Humphry Davy's in 1829), in Dialogue V., entitled 'The Chemical Philosopher.' In the seventh edition of the work (London, John Murray, 1869) it occurs on pp. 239, 240 ; in the edition published in " Cassell's National Library," in 1889, it is on p. 157.
 * Consolations in Travel ' (which he Wrote

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

PETER PETT, 1610-70 (US. viii. 27). With regard to the date of Pett's death, may I call MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS' s attention to the genealogy of the family in The Ancestor, x. 147-78 ('The Builders of the Navy'), in which it is stated that his will was proved 2 Dec., 1672 (p. 169) ?

G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

FANE : VANE : VAUGHAN (11 S. vii. 484). I should greatly doubt whether " a Vane " can represent " ap Vaughan." Vaughan, Welsh Fychan, is not a personal name, but an adjective, " little." A man might be called, e.<y., Harri Fychan, " Henry the Little." or Harri ap Gwilym Fychan, " Henry, son of William the Little/' but not Harri ap Fychan ; at all events, I do not remember ever to have seen a name of this type, and it seems on the face of it a highly improbable method of naming a person. H. I. B.

" THE EIGHT AND FORTIE MEN " (11 S. viii. 49). These were the vestry. O. S. T. will find the information he needs in Burn's 'Ecclesiastical Law,' s.v. 'Vestry'; in 1834 Report on the Poor Law ; in Webb's ' Local Government ' ; and under Twelvemen, Duodecim, Eightmen, Twenty-four Men, &c., in some of the published churchwardens' accounts. YGREC.

DOWNDERRY (11 S. vii. 168; viii. 32). In ' Words and Places.' by the Rev. Isaac Taylor, M.A., p. 468, the name Derry is derived from the Erse doire, an oak, as is also the name Kildare.

RICHD. WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

[MR. J. FIXCH also thanked for reply.]

PRIVATE SCHOOLS (11 S. vii. 488; viii. 58). 'Ernest Bracebridge at School,' by W. H. G. Kingston ; ' The Cherry Stones,' by the Rev. William Adams, M.A. ; and ' Louis' School-Days,' by E. J. May, will minister to the want of your correspondent. These old stories have been reprinted in one volume, and published : London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. ; Glasgow, Thomas D. Morison. ST. S WITHIN.

"ALL SIR GARNET" (11 S. viii. 70). This soldiers' saying came into use, I believe, during the Egyptian campaign I remem- ber questioning an army man about it shortly after the fall of Khartum, and he told me it arose from the general faith of the regulars in Sir Garnet Wolseley. If that general gave an order, however dis- agreeable, it must be all right, " all Sir Garnet," or " O.K." WM. JAGGARD.

' THE READER ' AND DR. JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY (US. vii. 468; viii. 36, 75). For the sake of the accuracy of ' N. & Q.,' will you allow me to state that the name of the last editor of The Reader was notBen- dysshe, as given in three issues of ' N. & Q.,' but Bendyshe ? REGALIS.