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 us. VIIL OCT. is, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest fcc affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct..

" HOOSH." At this great distance from the British Museum, and with the slender resources of this, the Cinderella colony, it is not easy to track the hunted word. Could any of your readers say whether the word " hoosh," used (if I am not in error) of a mixture of chocolate and other stuff com- pounded by Capt. Scott near the South Pole, and the Esquimaux word hoosh, the name of a highly intoxicating drink, are one and the same ? Can any reader give me a clue as to the earliest known .use of " hoosh " in English explorers' books and works relating thereto ? Apart from this use of " hoosh " for one of the last meals partaken of by the Scott Expedition, I have only found it somewhere in The Wide World "Magazine in an issue of this year, referring to Aleutian Islanders, who are said to be debarred from " hoosh " lest they run " amok." My impression is, however, that the word occurs somewhere in an account of Sir John Franklin and in Admiral McCl Stock's Journals.

CECIL OWEN.

Perth, Western Australia.

" ANGELINA GUSHINGTON." Who was the author of " Thoughts on Men and Things. A Series of Essays. By Angelina Gushing- ton," published in 1868 by Rivingtons ? It is not mentioned in Halkett and Laing's ' Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudony- mous Literature. ' I have heard it attributed to Lord Dufferin, but this is no doubt owing to confusion with Lady Dufferin's * Lispings from Low Latitudes' (1863), which pur- ported to be extracts from the Journal of the Hon. Impulsia Gushington.

F. H. C.

" HEN AND CHICKENS " SIGN. (See US. vi. 67 ; vii. 67. ) At the latter reference MR. WILLIAM GILBERT mentions a tenement called "Hen and Chickens," located ap- parently in Lombard Street, or in St. Nicho- las Lane in the parish of St. Nicholas Aeon, according to the will of James Hall of St. Clement, Eastcheap, citizen and draper (dated 16 Nov., 1665 ; P.C.C. 43 Lloyd).

Can MR. GILBERT state the location definitely ? and can he or any reader say whether that tenement was or was not identical with its namesake mentioned at

the first reference given above ? I refer there to the " Hen and Chickens " be- queathed by the astronomer Halley ? s younger surviving daughter, Mrs. Catherine Price, in 1764-5 (P.C.CC reg. Rushworth, 423), to her eventual heir, Halley Benson Milliken, at which time this " Hen and Chickens " was described as being " in Whitechapel, High Street, in the occupation of John Allen " (see 10 S. iii. 6 ; 11 S. ii. 466). My maps of London do not help me much in this instance.

EUGENE F. McPiKE. 135, Park Row, Chicago.

me a reference to the place in which Carlyle alludes to Emerson's teaching as "transcen- dental moonshine ? ' ? J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.
 * ' TRANSCENDENTAL." Can anyone send

BUCKERIDGE AND REYNOLDS. Who Was

Dorothea, the wife of Arthur Buckeridge, Rector of Crick, Northants, 1697 ? Her will, dated 21 Sept., 1748, proved the following year (P.C.C. Lisle 131), states her to be of Rugby in county of Warwick, widow. She mentions therein nieces Frances, Dorothea, Penelope, and Sarah, daughters of my late brother Breton, de- ceased ; said Frances, wife of Hans Hissing ; said Sarah, wife of Christian Frederick Weber ; Robert, Thomas, and Sarah, Doro- thea, and Rebecca, sons and daughters of my late brother Thomas Breton, deceased ; said niece, wife of Owen Lloyd, picture of Mr. William Alstone ; said Dorothea, wife of Samuel Gibbons ; said niece Rebecca Johnston ; brother Edward Reynolds, de- ceased ; late brother Henry Barwell ; late brother Thomas Reynolds, the picture of Dame Esther Temple ; Frances, widow of John Cox, daughter of Thomas Reynolds ; brother Joshua Reynolds, lands, tene- ments, at Lubenham, in Leicestershire; Thomas Alston, of Pavenham, in co. Bedford ; poor widows and housekeepers of Crick, in Northampton. A. STEPHENS DYER.

207, Kingston Road, Teddington.

WILLIAM MURDOCH. (See ante, p. 227.) Will MR. JONAS kindly give his reason for stat:ng that Murdoch is buried in Hands- worth Churchyard ? I have always under- stood that Watt, Boulton, and Murdoch were all three buried in the church. The memorials to Boulton and Murdoch (see 9 S. vi. 358) are in the chancel, and the Watt statue is enshrined in a side chapel close by.

See also 9 S. vi. 227, 358; ix. 118, 317, 372 ; x. 35, 96. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.