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12 S. IX. JULY 23, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 79 (12 S. viii. 168, 236, 311).—The identification of the two Sowdens proves to be incorrect. Benjamin Sowden became minister of the English Church at Rotterdam in 1748, where he died in 1778 or 1779 (Steven's History of the Scottish Church,' Rotterdam, 1832, pp. 229, 335). Benjamin Choyce Sowden became minister of the English Church at Amsterdam in 1782, and held office there till 1796 (ibid., p. 282, where he is wrongly styled M.A.).

I have still to discover from what printed source Henry Dell (Select Collection of the Psalms of David, 1756) took his psalm versions by the elder Sowden. Steven speaks of him as "the pupil and constant correspondent of Dr. Doddridge," but no light is thrown on the subject in Doddridge's Diary or in his Life by Orton.

DOMENICK ANGELO'S BURIAL PLACE (12 S. viii. 491 ; ix. 33). The evidence for Sophia Angelo's early connection with Eton is to be found quoted in my ' History of the Angelo Family,' published in 1903 in ' The Ancestor ' (see vol. viii. p. 32). That evidence, which must have had an authoritative source, I reproduce here : DEATH. April 7th, 1847. At Eton College, aged 88, Mrs. Sophia Angelo. She was the eldest and most celebrated Dame of Eton having been connected with that establishment near seventy years. (G.M. xxvii. 561). For "18 years of age " in my recent note should be substituted " 20 years of age," as stated in my said history. She must have been of Eton College in 1779 or soon after, when George, Prince of Wales, was 17 or perhaps 18 years old, quite old enough for a young man's fancy lightly to turn, &c. But the whole family, especially Domenick, enjoyed exceptionally high Court favour, and George III. himself, when Heir Apparent, was Sophia's brother Henry's godfather ('Reminiscences'). It was common know- ledge in the family that she owed her pre- ferment, not to any direct appointment by the Prince that would be absurd but to his influence exercised on her behalf. As one connected with the family I had the information direct from Colonel Richard Fisher Angelo, whose father Colonel Richard Frederick Angelo, born in 1802, knew his great Aunt Sophia of Eton very well. He was 16 when Sophia penned her amusing rimed letter of 1818, recently published in* N. & Q.', in which, a charming woman not yet 40, she playfully refers to herself as still the admired of the Regent. So that the evidence was that of actual personal knowledge, before knowledge had time to fade into mere tradition. Perhaps Mr. Austen Leigh may be able to identify others whose names figure in Sophia Angelo's interesting letter.* CHARLES SWYNNERTON. year between the age of Sophia at death as given in the G.M. and as given in her mon. insc. Her baptismal certificate has still to be found. JOCELYN FLOOD (12 S. vii. 409, 456, 518). The registers of St. Peter and St. Kevin, Dublin, printed by the' Dublin Par. Reg. Society, record the christening, on July 15, 1746, of Jocelyn, son of Warden Flood, Solicitor General. J. B. WHITMORE. AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ix. 32). The lines about which J. R. H. inquires are : It is a good and soothfast saw ; Half roasted never will be raw ; No dough is dried once more to meal, No crock new-shapen by the wheel ; You can't turn curds to milk again, Nor Now, by wishing, back to Then'; And having tasted stolen honey, You can't buy innocence for money. They head the 17th Chapter of ' Felix Holt, the Radical ' and are, I assume, by George Eliot. J. J. FREEMAN. on Arabian Medicine : Being the FitzPatrick Lectures delivered at the College of Physicians in November, 1919, and November, 1920. By Edward G. Browne, M.B., F.R.C.P. (Cambridge University Press, 12s. net.) FAMOUS as an Arabic and Persian scholar, Pro- fessor Browne is also a physician, who studied at Bart.'s under Sir Norman Moore ; and the com- bination of his two strains of learning makes an interesting, original and often amusing book. In it he is able to show how much the world owes to the scholars and physicians of Islam for preserv- ing something of ancient Greek and other medical science through the Dark Ages, and to plead also for greater recognition of the foundation of serious scientific labour which underlies the poetry and philosophy now constantly winning new admirers among the people of the West. He speaks, as do most of us, of " Arabian " science, " Arabian " medicine ; but he warns us that the common phrase is scarcely accurate for " that body of scientific or medical doctrine which is enshrined in books written in the Arabic language, but which is for the most part Greek in its origin, though with Indian, Persian and Syrian accre- tions, and only in a very small degree the product of the Arabian mind. . . The translation of
 * There is apparently a discrepancy of one