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foibliothek of Danzig or in the Bibliothek of Kirkwall ; and it may be as well to put their titles on record. Three are undated :

1. De virtute heroica : resp. Severino Boner.

Dant

2. De statu democratico : resp. R. Dembicky a

Dembica. Dant

3. De tribus homileticis virtutibus : resp.

loanne Sovrenitzio. Dant

Those with dates are :

i. De virtute moral! in genere : resp. Gregorio Lago. Dant. 1610.

5. De fossilium et metallorum natura univer-

saliori -: resp. Georgio Martino. Dant. 1610.

6. De statu aristocratico : resp. Christophoro

Stroinowski. Dant. 1610.

7. De corporibus vivis irregularibus : resp.

Andrea Welsio. Dant. 1610. 3. De raagnanimitate et modestia : resp. Thoma

Adamo. Dant. 1611. 9. De temperantia : resp. Martino Barnero.

Dant. 1611.

10. De liberalitate et magnificentia : resp.

lohanne Burchardo. L)ant. 1611.

11. De fortitudine : resp. Johanne Paulo. Dant.

1611.

12. De magistratu : resp. Davide Mylio. Dant.

1612.

13. De subiecto et accidente : resp. Thoma

Servieno. Dant. 1612.

I shall be grateful for a note of any other theses sustained under Aedie's presidency, or for any further details of his career. The only other document known to me is printed in Maidment's ' Analecta Scotica,' ii. 337 : VI.," undated. P. J. ANDERSON.
 * Petition of Andrew Adie to King James

Aberdeen University Library.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND DREAMS. I find the following book is attributed to Franklin. What proof is there that he was the author ? I have searched the cata- logue of Henry Stevens' s Franklin Collec- tion, but it is not there :

L'Art De se Rendre Heureux

Par les Songes

C'est adire en se procurant telle espece

de songes que Ton puisse desirer confor-

mement a ses inclinations

Franefort et Leipsic

MDCCXLVI

It is foolscap 8vo, with xvi+238 pp.

Brunet, Barrier, and Ch. Nodier all assert that the volume is " fort rare."

C. ELKIN MATHEWS. Vigo Street, VV.

PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL. I should feel very grateful if any of your readers who may possess records of the early days of the Philological School would communicate with me.

The school was founded, under the title of " The Philological Society," in 1792 by Mr. Thomas Colliiigwood of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and with him were associated William Wilberforce the philanthropist, the Rev. Basil Woodd, and Sir Rowland Hill. G. S. BEECHING, Major.

3, Castlebar Crescent, Baling, W.

TALMAN AND JOHN WEBB. According to Walpole's ' Anecdotes of Painting,'

" Mr. Talman had a quarto volume containing drawings in Indian ink of capitals and other orna- ments in architecture which John Webb had executed in several houses. '

If anything is known of this volume, I shall be glad to hear about it.

B. T. BATSFORD.

94, High Holborn, W.C.

JOHN MURRAY I. AS AN AUTHOR : COL. ROBERT GORDON. The reissue of Smiles's ' Publisher and his Friends ' serves to remind us that John Murray, the founder of the famous house in Albemarle Street, was an author, inasmuch as he wrote " two letters to The Morning Chronicle in defence of [Col.] Sir Robert [Gordon], who had been censured for putting an officer [Col. Keating ?] under arrest at the siege of Broach," November, 1772. " The colonel's brother Gordon of Gordons town " thanked Murray, as also did the Colonel himself on 20 August, 1774. Can any reader tell me in what issues Murray's letters appeared ? Either they or some others were written by Murray over the signature of "Junius Asiaticus." Smiles is wrong in calling the cclonel " Sir " Robert. Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstown died 2 June, 1776, and was succeeded by his brother Sir William. Col. Robert Gordon made his will on 16 August, 1776, and left his entire estate to " William Gordon, brother of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstown." The colonel may have been an illegitimate brother of these two baronets. Can any one solve this mystery ? J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall, 8. W.

MOFFETE FAMILY. My grandfather, Samuel Moffete, went to Russia in the time of the Czar Alexander II., and served in the Russian fleet as an admiral. All my relations in Russia are dead, and I should like to find out whether I have any relatives still living in England. My uncle, who is also dead now, used to say that our family had many ramifications in England. I shall be glad of any information on the subject.

(Mile.) V. MOFFETE. Maison Russe, Men ton, France.