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Woolwich. A gold badge of somewhat similar design, but with a rather different treatment of the "garter" device and of the names of the same battles, was sold at Glendining's on 24 Feb., 1904. At the same rooms on 25 Feb., 1910, was sold a Swedish medal for bravery in the field granted to Thos. Wadkis, gunner, of the Royal Horse Artillery and second Rocket Troop.

Two Swedish medals for bravery were also given to Corporal Marks of the second Rocket Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, for his valour at the Battle of Leipsic. These, together with the original parchment con- ferring them, are at the Royal Artillery Institution. See Proceedings of this Institu- tion, December, 1899, and January, 1904, with Major MacMunn's description.

C. HAGGARD.

No TWIN EVER FAMOUS (11 S. v. 487 ; vi. 58, 172, 214). A recent example of a distinguished twin is found in Mr. Boyd Alexander, who was killed by savages in the Wadai district of North Africa on 2 April, 1910. An account of him, and something of his twin brother and other members of his family, will be found pre- , fixed to ' Boyd Alexander's Last Journey,' recently published by Edward Arnold. A brother has performed a pathetic duty in pay- ing this pious tribute to eminence. The diary kept by Alexander during his final experi- ment in exploration is of remarkable interest, and appreciably adds to his distinguished record as a contributor to the literature of travel. Here, as before, he makes sub- stantial additions to ornithological know- ledge. THOMAS BAYNE.

JEFFREY HUDSON AND CROFTS DUEL (US. vi. 369). The authority for Brayley's statement is in a letter from Henrietta Maria to Cardinal Mazarin : " Le Jofroy has killed the brother of Crofts." The letter, dated from Xevers, 20 Oct., 1644, is given in Miss Strickland's ' Queens of Eng- land,' v. 327. Of the five sons of Sir Henry Crofts, John, the second, became Dean of Norwich ; Edmund and Henry died young, as is stated on their mother's tablet in Little Saxham Church ; and therefore Charles is the only one whom Hudson could have killed in 1644. He is mentioned on his mother's tablet as being still alive when she died in October. 1642. He would have been born soon after 1620. Sir Henry's position at Court brought it to pass that several of his cliildren were not baptized at Little Saxham. S. H. A. H.

Sir Walter Scott, in ' Peveril of the Peak,' speaks of the " Honorable Master Crofts killed in a duel by Sir Geoffrey Hudson as a man of good quality, son to a knight baronet.'' A. GWYTHER.

A WINNOWER (11 S. vi. 309, 376). Hand winnowing mills are still used in Tyrol ; and the flail is in common use there.

H. K. H.

The machine described by F. W. M. was evidently an early type of what is known to-day as a " dressing machine," of which there are many varieties. When the wheat was thrashed with a flail in the barn, it was customary to throw it from one end of the barn floor to the other to separate the grain from the chaff. It was subsequently passed through a dressing machine to separate the chicken corn and mice droppings from the bulk. This was occasionally done twice, if the farmer was anxious to make a good- sample. I should imagine there is nothing in the old winnower to make it worthy of preservation. W. W. GLENNY.

Barking, Essex. [MR. M. L. B. BRESLAR also thanked for reply.]

A "DISH" OF TEA (11 S. vi. 370). In reading of a dish of tea we naturally picture to ourselves the dish as we know it to-day. The dish was originally, however, a bowl or cup. Thus in Mark xiv. 20 " He that dippeth with me in the dish " the Greek word used was Tpvftkiov, of which the dic- tionary rendering is "cup" or "bowl." Then, again, the nursery rime :

' Who killed Cock Robin ? " ' I," said the sparrow ; ' With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin."

' Who caught his blood ? " ' I," said the fish ; ' With my little dish, I caught his blood."

The origin or antiquity of the rime I do not know, but its reference to bow and arrow and to dish may take it back to times remote. Anyhow, the two quotations seem to establish that the dish was originally a bowl of sorts, either a large and probably flat bowl for the table, or a small bowl or cup for drinking purposes, a portable personal chattel ranking with the knife and spoon. The meaning carried by the word in a particular case would be imparted by the context, as is apparently the case in the instances above cited. As the kinds or varieties of vessels for food and drink, without and with handles, increased (when did the handle come to be