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moment sets can rarely be procured, and their scarcity must, in the very nature of things, increase.

An important by-product of Dr. Tafel's two visits to Scandinavia and Europe was his collection of ' Documents concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg,' which as published, 2 vols. in 3, in 1875-7, furnish indispensable memoires pour servir to every future biographer of their subject. The volumes also include many pieces from Swedenborg' s pen then for the first time committed to print.

Dr. Tafel devoted a large part of the leisure permitted by the ministerial labours in England, which followed his return from Sweden, to the translation and amplification of a section of Swedenborg's ' Regnum Animale,' the title of which in its English form runs thus : ' The Brain considered Anatomically, Physiologically, and Philo- Rophically.' But at the time of his death, in 1893, Di\ Tafel had completed only one-half of his task by issuing vol. i. in 1882, and vol. ii. in 1887. The Swedenborg Society has recently succeeded in appointing an editor for the remaining half in Prof. Dr. O. M. Ramstrom, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Upsala.

The late Dr. James John Garth Wilkinson, one of the prime movers of the Swedenborg Association, and for many years an active member of the Swedenborg Society's Com- mittee, addressed in 1886 to that *body an " open letter " urging the desirability of its procuring a photographic facsimile of the IMS. of Swedenborg's ' Diarium Spirituals ' ; but the Society's funds being already over- burdened, the suggestion was necessarily shelved. The publication of the same letter in America, however, resulted in steps being taken there by the General Con- vention aforesaid, in conjunction with the Academy of the New Church, which finally resulted in the appearance of an edition of 110 copies of a photo typed facsimile of the ' Diarium Spirituale ' in three folio volumes, dated respectively 1901, 1905, and 1905. This undertaking was subsidized to the extent of 100Z. by the English General Con- ference, and of 200Z. by the Swedenborg Society. Meanwhile the original of a little treatise on the ' Prophets and Psa.lms ' had been similarly reproduced, in 1896, by the Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.

CHARLES HICHAM.

(To be continued.)

ST. MARY'S, AMERSHAM, BUCKS: CHURCHYARD INSCRIPTIONS.

(See 11 S. vii. 464; viii. 23, 103, 204.)

Xos. 133 to 172 inclusive are the remainder of those removed from the Raans Chapel in 1906.

133. Mrs. Mary Briant | Died | the 26th of March | 1824 | In"the 90th year of | Her age.

134. To the Memory of j Louisa Belcher I died May 3rd 1870 | aged 86 years.

135 Mary Belcher | died Feby. 13, 1816; | aged 66 years,

136. Nathl. Bateman, | died May 25th 1781 I Aged 47 Years.

137. Mary Elizabeth [ Assheton I died Septem- ber 9th 1806 | Aged 47 Years.

138. Charles Packer, | died July 26th 1854. I aged 68 Years

139. Charles Statham \ died May 25th 1863 J aged 61 Years.

140. Sarah Statham | died December 12th' 1858 | aged 47 years.

141. Mary Drake | Relict of the late Rev: John* Drake. LL.D. | Rector of Amersham I died on the 25th March 1838 | aged 77 years.

142. Revd. | John Drake, LL.D. | Rector of Amersham | died January 3rd 1826 j Aged 75- Years.

143. Margaret Frances Drake [ Aged 31 I died December 24th 1812.

144. Mrs. Elizth. Moody | widow of | Mr. Mattw Moody | died 2nd Jany. 1836: | in her 70th year.

145. In Memory of \ Mr, Matthew Moody I died December 21st 1820 | In his 49th Year.

146. James Rogers j died | October 8th 1858 ;. 1 aged 72.

147. Mary Anne ; j wife of James Rogers, { daughter of J John and Elizabeth C'harslev I died February 28, 1848. | aged 65 years.

148. To | the Memory of | Mr. Timothy Wing- field | Charsley | son of John and Elizabeth I Charsley | who died Novr. 13th 1820 | aged 43 Years.

149. Elizabeth Charsley, J died Deer. 28 1850,.
 * aged 77 years.

150. In Memory of | Mr. John Charsley I Obit December llth 1810 J Aged 75 years.

151. In Memory of | Sarah Daughter of John I and Elizabeth Charsley | Obit June 19th 1794 | aged 13 Years.

152. Mrs. | Elizabeth Charsley j Grandaughter of | Timothy Wing field Esqr. | of this Town who lies in this Church | as Also her Mother and Sister | she died the 25th | of June 1793 | Aged 42..

153. To the Memory j of J Kitty Lawrence I who died July the 27th 1791 | aged 65 Years.

154. John Lawrence | Esqr. | died 26th No- vember 1802 | in the 73rd Year of | his Age.

155. Mary Lomas | died October 7th 1857 | aged 51 Years.

156. Mary Lascelles | died Novr. 17th 1846, | aged 57.

157. Christian Judge | died Novr. 1st 1845, | aged 73 years.

158. Matilda Highain | died July 30th 1848: | aged 72 years.

159. Samuel Higham | died April 29th 1850,-
 * aged 77 Years.