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Horse, arid the Old Berkshires, and this he did for a period of thirteen years, often travelling fifty miles by road to a meet. His last season was that of 1877-8, for in the autumn of 1878 lie was attacked with a complaint of the spine, which prevented him from riding."

Capt. Pitman was the eldest son of the Rev. S. Pitman of Oulton Hall, and was a magistrate for Norfolk and Somerset. He was a good shot, and much interested in agriculture. He died some years ago, and left (I believe) two sons and two daughters. The elder son is dead, and the second went to Australia. The daughters married, but I do not know whether they are still living.

C. T.

W. CARTER (US. vi. 410). I assume that the person MR. CANN HUGHES asks about was of the last century, as he was buried in a cemetery; 1hat being so, there were then four artists of that name.

In ' A Dictionary of Artists,' 1895, Mr. Algernon Graves enumerates three as having exhibited, viz., W. Carter (1849-50), William Carter (1836-76), and, lastly, the well- known portrait painter of the present day, who exhibited a portrait of himself at the Royal Academy in 1910. The other two (who both address from London, and never Bristol), I came to the conclusion, after an inspection of the R.A. Catalogues, were the same person. But, on tracing their ad- dresses out in the Post Office Directories, I do not think my conclusion can be right.

The fact is that they are, as was usual with the early Royal Academy Catalogues (see my note, 11 S. iv. 201), so mixed up that identification is most difficult, if not impossible. On referring to the Post Office Directory at the address given for " W. Carter " in the Royal Academy Catalogue for 1849, I find he was also a " William," and that he was at 23, Philpot Lane, from 1847 to 1875, aftd his business is given as " architect and surveyor." He is the one first above-mentioned, and according to the Catalogues he exhibited once only at the Royal Academy, and that was in 1849. from 23, Philpot Lane, No. 297, ' An old

Gateway atHanham O'cJ.Mills, near Bristol.' he 1850 exhibit was at Suffolk Street Exhibition. Also in 1849 William Carter exhibited No. 16, 'A scene on the Tees,' and No. 1160, 'Sketch for a country residence ' ; and his address in the Royal i Academy Catalogue index is 23, Alfred Place, Bedford Square. He is not in the Post Office Directory at that address, but at 238, High Holborn, which was his exhi- bition address for some years. He exhibited '

at the British Institution from 1843 to 1861, his address being 238, High Holborn. He was an artist. I think that No. 1160 really belonged to the architect of 23, Philpot Lane, as did also other exhibits of an archi- tectural kind indexed under the " artist's " name. Mr. Graves in ' The Royal Academy Exhibitors ' (this is the title on his bound copies, and it is the running title, but the title-pages have ' The Royal Academy of Arts') has " W. Carter" (this was the architect) for one picture only at the Royal Academy in 1849. But Mr. Graves's next entry is of the namesake whom I call the artist, who exhibited "landscapes" at the Royal Academy from 1847 to 1876. Among his exhibits in 1847 I find No. 79 is ' A Ferry at Hankham [sic], near Bristol.' It seems most curious that two persons of the same name should both go to Bristol for their subjects about the same time ! Perhaps the Bristol subjects belong to the artist MR. CANX HUGHES inquires for, and to neither of the others.

In the Print-Room, British Museum, there are three water-colour sketches signed " W. Carter," which are by the artist : one was given by Mr. Sidney Vacher.

RALPH THOMAS.

APPARENT DEATH (11 S. v. 428 ; vi. 16, 58, 133, 193, 353). The real facts are these: Mr. Notman, a British subject, a Quaker, was inspector of t he Imperial tanneries - in Russia. He lived in a rather lonely district, and once, when he was far away on duty, Mrs. Notman was taken ill, and, as was supposed, died. For two days she was laid out for burial by the Russian servants in charge. Meanwhile a messenger was sent to Mr. Notman, then 600 miles away. John Howard was a very intimate friend of the Notmans, and happening just then, in his travels, to be within reach of their residence, he thought he would call to see them. On arriving at the house, to his surprise he was informed by the ser- vants of what had occurred. Being a friend, he obtained permission to see the body, and observing that there was not so much change in appearance as ought to take place two days after death, he doubted its reality, and at once had recourse to restoratives. By applying the glass of his watch to her mouth r he detected signs of breathing, and stayed on till complete restoration was effected.

I had these facts from my mother-in-law, Mrs. Richard Knill, who was born after this event, and received the information direct from her mother, Mrs. Notman. She