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any breed of dogs I know at the present day- The picture was painted more than 500 years ago, and, if for no other reason, it is valuable as showing us the breed of dog which was then popular. Is the breed extant now, or which existing breed does it nearest approach in appearance ?

J. HARRIS STONE.

THE AMERICAN NATIONAL FLOWER. What is this ? Inquiry in several quarters has failed to identify it ; yet in the appa- rently official account of the signing on 3 August, at the White House, Washington, of the Arbitration Treaty between Great Britain and the United States, published in the press here on 4 August, the table used for the purpose is described as having on it merely copies of the treaty, an inkstand, and a " tall vase filled with a golden pod of the American national, flower." What was the actual flower placed in this vase ?

W. S. B. H.

[Some London papers spoke of a vase filled with "golden rod, the American national flower."]

PEERS IMMORTALIZED BY PUBLIC-HOUSES. Coming up in the train the other day through the Borough, I noticed the legend "The Earl of Beaconsfield " over a public- house. This induces me to ask how many peers, apart from purely territorial mention, have been immortalized in this way. One is familiar with Marlborough, Nelson, Pitt, and the Marquis of Granby ; but, doubtless, there are many others. N. M.

CHARLES WATERTON'S PAMPHLETS. Charles Waterton, the traveller and natural- ist, who wrote several interesting books concerning his wanderings and also on natural history, was the author of several pamphlets on local matters of his own day. The former have been catalogued in ' The Bibliographer's Manual ' ; the latter, so far as I can ascertain, have not been recorded, and have now become very scarce. If any one can contribute a list of these to ' N. & Q.,' he will be doing a great service to the lite- rature of Yorkshire. COM. EBOR.

COL. SIR J. ABBOTT : ' CONSTANCE ' AND ALLAOODEEN.' Before 1893 two books entitled Constance ' and ' Allaoodeen ' probably poems, were published, written by Col. Sir James Abbott, Bengal Artillery There is no copy of either of them in the British Museum or India Office Library Information is desired concerning them. 01 v (Major) J. H. LESLIE.

31, Kenwood Park Road, Sheffield.

MERIDIAN OF LONDON. Where in London was the meridian taken to be ? J. Adams in his 'Index Villaris,' 1680, gives "the latitude of each particular place, and the respective difference of longitude eastward and westward from London " ; e.g., Green- wich, Greenwich House, and Greenwich Mount, are given as of latitude 51 31' and longitude 04' E.

Was there any building in London which might be regarded as the predecessor of the Greenwich Observatory ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

CORNISH GENEALOGY AND THE CIVIL WAR. I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can give me assistance in the follow- ing matter.

I am engaged on working out the history of a family of the small landed proprietor class, established in the north-eastern corner of Cornwall. I have gone through the parish registers of the neighbourhood, and have obtained therefrom a fairly complete account of the births, marriages, and deaths in the family from the date at which the registers begin (about the middle of the sixteenth century) to the present time. I should like to obtain additional informa- tion, but do not know where to look for it. For example, it appears almost certain that some members of the family fought in the Cornish army under Sir Beville Granville in the Civil War. Are there any lists extant of the officers or men who served in this army ? Or are there any other sources from which information relating to such a family is likely to be obtainable ? DAVID SHEARME. 4, Summerleaze, Bude, N. Cornwall.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. "Tranquillizing influence" of the green earth (quoted in Stevenson's ' Virginibus Puerisque ').

2. The "sanctimonious ceremony" of marriage (ibid.).

3. Is not a man's walking, in truth, always

"a succession of falls"? (quoted by Carlyle, ' Heroes ' : Mahomet).

P. C. G.

" The gods never give with both hands," quoted by Lady Helen Forbes in her novel * The Bounty of the Gods.'

W. A. M.

FRENCH THEORIST ON LOVE. Stevenson in his ' Virginibus Puerisque ' writes :

" I remember an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his cdnacle. It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he rose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it