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event 848 officers and seamen were on board, 331 only of which were saved by the boats of the fleet. [List of officers lost and saved.] Upwards of 200 women were on board, it is said, when she went down. The Royal George was just 27 years old the time she was lost, having been launched at Woolwich in Sep., 1755. She was built in 4 years, her keel being laid in 1751. The naval people say she can be weighed up, if the weather proves favourable in the course of a month."

ALEXANDER CORDER.

I have in my possession a circular lathe- turned tobacco- or snuff-box, which I came across recently in a local broker's shop. Inside is a slip of paper bearing the following in a lady's handwriting, but no dates are given :

" This Box made from the timber of the ' Royal George ' presented to my father, the late M. A. Gage, C.E., by one of the hands engaged in raising the above-named vessel, which was sunk in the English Channel with all hands on board. S. A. Gage."

In view of what has been said at the above references, it would be interesting to know whether the raising operations here referred to resulted in the discovery of proof that some material part of her frame did give way. The " timbers " of the box I allude to are quite " sound " and black, and petrosal with age and immersion.

FRANK CURRY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THESES : DUNCAN LIDDEL (11 S. vii. 125). If Duncan Liddel was Professor at Helmstadt from 1596 to 1605, it looks as though he sometimes under- took in the default of candidates to oppose or respond at one of the disputations. The identity of the document used on at least three different occasions could, I expect, be easily paralleled if the histories of Uni- versities entered into particulars so minute. I have heard of stock disputations being kept in a college for regular use by candi- dates for degrees. MR. ANDERSON does not draw attention to the circumstance that the change of case from the nominative Sebastianus Walrabius to the dative Adamo Siferto looks as though Liddel had been respondent in the former and opponent in the latter case. In which capacity he appeared in the first mentioned of the three disputations is not clear, as Petrus Ruthanus appears to be in the nominative, and Finno in the dative case. In Oxford (see Andrew Clark, c Register of University of Oxford,' vol. ii. part i. p. 120) the candidate seems always to have opposed.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

THE ' LONDON,' ' BRITISH,' AND ' ENGLISH r CATALOGUES (11 S. vii. 127). I suppose the ' Term Catalogues ' come within the scope of this inquiry as forerunners of the ' London Catalogue.' Mr. Arber's reprint of them is cited by Mr. Peat in his ' Bibliography of Bookselling ' (' The Romance of Book- selling,' by F, A. Mumby, Appendix).

Clavel intended his ' Catalogue of the Most Vendible Books in England,' first issued in 1658, to be reissued annually, but apparently the supplement " of New Books come forth since August the first, 1657, till June the first, 1658," is the only attempt to give effect to this excellent intention until he commenced the issue of the * Term Cata- logues.' Mr. Peat gives their first year as 1668, and is, no doubt, correct ; but the few before me commence with that issued in Easter Term, 1681, which is numbered " 3." Clavel announces in an advertisement :

" The General Catalogue of Books printed in England since the dreadful Fire of London in 1666 continued to the End of Hillary Term, 1681."

Other editions, extending the record to 1682 and 1683, are announced in later issues, but ultimately The Weekly Memorials for the Ingenious and other early predecessors of The, Book Monthly took its place.

The subject of Booksellers' Catalogues deserves more thorough study than it has hitherto received. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

I have a copy of

"The London catalogue of books .... since 1800 to March, 1827. London, published for the executor of the late W. Bent by Longman," &c.

It is the usual octavo, pp. iv, 308, and one of corrections. I have never seen any other copy.

The absence of dates of publication seems, in the present day, remarkable, as I presume the book was issued as a guide chiefly for booksellers. But this system was continued by Thomas Hodgson in his 1851 issue, pp. 644, and a classified Index in 1853, pp. xiv, 285, which is the best known of the series bearing the above title.

RALPH THOMAS.

THE EARLDOM OF SOMERSET IN THE MOHUN FAMILY (11 S. vii. 130). There appears to be no evidence, prior to the data of Milles's ' Catalogue of Honor,' viz., 1610,. that the Pope ever purported to confer (or confirm) an English earldom on this or any other family. On p. 394 Milles says :

" Reg. de Mohun, Lord and Baron of Dunstere t>y gift of the Pope (who in King John's time- might doe what he list in England), received his