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North Woolwich as in the geographical area of Essex, and to quote it as an instance of "parishes in two or more counties." The parallel is imperfect in one respect : Venetia has been a part of Austria, but I know of 'no evidence that North Woolwich has ever been a part of Essex, or that the centre line of Gallions Reach has ever been a county boundary.

There is no reason why the statement I quoted from Dr. Blake Odgers's * Local Government ' need be amended in a future edition. It was a correct statement of historical fact concerning the year 1871, and as such is no more " out of date " in 1914 than in 1899, when it was published. A. MOBLEY DAVIES.

HERODOTUS AND ASTRONOMIC GEO- GRAPHY (11 S. ix. 191, 238). This passage in Herodotus is explained in Reginald Stuart Poole's ' Horse JEgyptiacae,' London, 1851. This ingenious and learned book deals with Egyptian chronology, and in this question of Herodotus it had the support of Sir Gardner Wilkinson.

The priests had misled Herodotus. They told him that great periods had elapsed since the time of Menes, the first king, and that in the interval from his reign to that of Sethon the solar risings of stars that is to say, their manifestations had twice fallen on those days of the vague year on which their settings fell in their own time, and vice versa, and that the historian, by a natural mistake, supposed they spoke of the sun itself. This is confirmed by Pom- ponius Mela, who only differs in stating that the king to whose reign they calculated was Amasis.

The most valuable and, I think, the most complete list of theses, &c., upon Herodotus is in Wilhelm Engelmann's ' Scriptores Graeci' (Leipzig, 1880), pp. 362-74. The last entry but two in this list is of a book by J. Zech, which is a series of astronomical studies. On pp. 29, 39-44, the astronomy of Herodotus is referred to.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, \\.

ANTHONY MUNDAY (US. viii. 509 ; ix. 57, 181, 235). Sir John Mundy, Mayor of Lon- don, referred to by MONEDEE at the last reference, was probably the son of William Mnndy of High or Chipping Wycombe, co. Bucks, not of Wycombe, i.e., Wickham, co. Berks. A family of the name was resident in the neighbourhood of High Wycombe for several centuries prior to the date of Sir John Mundy.

Vincent Mundy, the Mayor's son, whose inventory is referred to, was slain by his younger son Henry, and is stated to have been buried at Islington. In The Genea- logical Monthly, No. 4, there is considerable information relative to the Mayor and other Mundy s of co. Bucks.

PERCY D. MUNDY.

THE ROADS ROUND LONDON SEVENTY YEARS AGO: RHUBARB (US. ix. 82, 157). It is suggested on p. 83 that rhubarb was introduced into this country between 1820 and 1830. In * The Housekeeper's In- structor,' by W. A. Henderson, 16th ed., improved by J. C. Schnebbelie, 1810, is a receipt for rhubarb tart, made from " the stalks of rhubarb that grow in a garden," in the same way as a gooseberry tart.

DIEGO.

OIL PAINTING ON BRASS (US. ix. 229). This, judging from the Portuguese inscrip- tion, is the portrait of Dom Jose Ancelmo de Almeida Scares, who at some time long since was Governor of the islands Timor and Solor (in the Malay Archipelago), belonging to Portugal. The words "Govern 01 " and " Gr* 1 " are abbreviations for " Governador " and " General." The word " Ilhas " signi- fies "Islands"; "el," "the." I am unable to say what word the abbreviation " app 1 "" " stands for. QUIEN SABE.

THE INVENTION OF THE INTERVIEW (11 S. ix. 210). The Westminster Gazette, 2 Jan., 1897: "It is claimed for Joseph M'Cul- lagh of St. Louis that he was the inventor of the modern newspaper interview."

THE STOCK EXCHANGE AS " THE HOUSE " (11 S. ix. 207). 1756, Rolt, 'Diet. Trade,' ' House,' " particularly applied, in partner- ships of trade, to that house where the busi- ness is carried on." Cf. clearing-house, counting-house, custom-house, India-house, &c. A. R. BAYLEY.

The name " Stock Exchange " was not coined until 1773, when rooms were hired for business purposes at New Jonathan's in Sweeting Alley, and the place was called " The Stock Exchange," " which is to be wrote over the door." In 1802 the brokers had their own house of business. See 9 S. vii. 406, ' Stock Exchange Centenary.' The 'New English Dictionary,' v. ' House,' 4, f., a place of business, quotes, under date 1814, " ' Stock Exchange Laid Open,' 31, ' Now for the House itself ; that is, the Stock Ex- change.' " TOM JONES.