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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. VIL MAY 24, 1913.

TOBACCO " RAPE." A " rape," I believe, is a grater (similar to a nutmeg grater) used for making snuff. Is the word a cor- ruption of " rasp " ?

WILLIAM PEAKCJE, F.S.A. Perrott House, Pershore.

.[In the ' N.E.D.' six substantive " rapes " are dis- tinguished. The third is defined as "a rasp, rough file," but marked obsolete except in dialect. The derivation is from Fr. rape, formerly raspe, a rasp or grater.]

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST IN ART. Can any of your readers tell me whether St. John the Baptist should be represented with a halo, seeing he died before Christ ? Also, should the feet have sandals or be bare ? 1 was recently consulted by a sculptor, and should be glad to know which is the correct way to delineate him.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

23, Unthauk Road, Norwich.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. SAMUEL Cox, barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, died in Chancery Lane, 15 Oct., 1776. I am anxious to obtain particulars of his parentage and marriage, and also the date of his admission and call at the Inner Temple.

2. NATHANIEL EATON, President-designate of Harvard College. According to the 'D.N.B.,' xvi. 337, he married twice. I should be glad to learn the dates and particulars of both marriages.

3. ROBERT HARDING EVANS. ' D.N.B.,' xviii. 71-2, says that his widow Susanna died 31 Jan., 1861. When were they mar- ried, and what was her maiden name ?

4. THE REV. WILLIAM FREIND, Rector of Croughton, co. Northampton, died in 1689. He was the father of John, Robert, and William, whose lives appear in the ' D.N.B.' Who were his parents ? When and whom did he marry ? G. F R. B.

THE CATHEDRAL AT PISA. In Pisa Cathedral there is a green cardinal's hat suspended from the ceiling. What does that mean with regard to the cardinal buried there ?

The cathedral chairs at Pisa are marked " O.R.CE." What do these letters mean ?

J. D.

STANLEY GROVE, MORTLAKE. I desire to ascertain if there is any engraving of this house, now I believe gone, which in 1825 was a girls' school, and previously the residence of Lord Derby's family.

W. Louis KING. Wadesmill, Ware.

HERALDIC. Albert Smith (entitled to bear arms) has three sons. His third son, William Smith, marries, and has issue two sons and one daughter. William's elder son dies without issue. His second son leaves six sons (who all die unmarried or without issue) and two daughters, who marry and leave issue. Presumably their issue can quarter the arms of Smith.

Are the descendants of William Smith's daughter also entitled to do so ?

P. D. M.

AUTHOR WANTED. " A babe is fed with milk and praise." Lamb quotes this in his ssay * Popular Fallacies : Ihat Home is Home, though it is never so homely,' in the ' Last Essays of Elia,' but does not name the author. T. F. HUSBAND.

" SCOLOPENDRA CETACEA." (US. vii. 347.)

IT is likely that the description of Scolo- pendra cetacea quoted on p. 347 from John Johnston's ' Historia Naturalis de Piscibus et Cetis ' (1767) is based upon a marine bristle Worm belonging to the family Nereidse. The characters described agree wonderfully well with those of individuals of such a genus as Nereis. Thus " pili narium " are the tentacles and tentacular cirri on the head ; the " tail," being seg- mented, may be said to resemble that of a locust, and the terminal appendages of the insect perhaps suggest the anal cirri of the worm. " Permulti pedes utrinque or- dine siti " exactly describes the feet or parapodia of the Nereidse, which range in number from 20 to more than 200 pairs in different species. Each parapodium moves With an oarlike motion, and is divided into an upper and lower segment (" biramous "), so that there is some reason for likening the arrangement to the banked oars in a tri- reme. One's only comment regarding the poetical description of the unknown crea- ture's movement in the waters is that of all worms the Nereids are the most muscular and active.

In ' Historise Naturalis de Serpentibus Joannis Jonstoni ' in Ruysch's ' Theatrum Animalium,' 1718, the author describes Scolopendra marina as a creature of a finger's length (cf. Sir Thomas Browne's "ten inches"), and figures two specimens from Aldrovandus said to be almost a cubit