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 12 S. IX. JULY 9, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 37 names, these were always known to the Academy Council, as artists were required to send them with their canvases when they were submitted. The list containing the names was invariably carried by the secre- tary when he, with the president and the other officers, accompanied the* King round the exhibition ; for George the Third, who had a remarkable memory for faces, liked on such occasions to display it by identifying all the* portraits he could. The lists, unfor- tunately, have not been preserved, but the industry and care of Mr. Reginald Graves, Mr. William Roberts and others, have identified for us the originals of numbers of the por- traits exhibited anonymously between 1760 and 1800. WILLIAM T. WHITLEY. FLAG FLOWN ON ARMISTICE DAY (12 S. viii. 510). Perhaps the flag was that of the Leeward Islands, of which the arms are Barry wavy of eight azure and argent with six escutcheons, &c. See illustration in " Caribbeana," vol. i. V. L. OLIVER, F.S.A. The L.C.C. has been accustomed, of recent years, to fly over its offices in Spring Gardens, S.W.I, a flag which has, inter alia, "wavy blue lines on a white field," on high days and holidays. Doubtless the Clerk of the Council would give the Librarian of the Royal Colonial Institute the history of, and authority for, this flag. HARMATOPEGOS. The arms of the Merchant Adventurers or Hamburgh Merchants, to whom Edward I. granted a charter in 1296, were : Barry nebulee of six argent and azure, a chief quarterly gules and or, 1st and 4th a lion passant gardant of the 4th, 2nd and 3rd two roses of the 3rd barbed vert. The first part of the above blazon appears to agree with Mr. Lewin's description of the flag. 1. The coat of arms was used on brasses (see All Hallows Barking in the City) and monuments. 2. Name of society as above and possibly the Hanseatic League. Also the Merchants of the Staple (England and Calais) in Ed- ward III.'s reign, who used the same field with a single lion in chief for England. 3. The society was formed by merchants to foster and protect trade between England and European towns. 4. The arms may have been used as a flag, for it is reasonable to suppose that ships trading for the members woiild carry a flag of similar design. WALTER E. GAWTHORP. 16, Long Acre, W.C.2. RELAPSES INTO SAVAGE LIFE (12 S. viii. 511). Charles Darwin, in his < Voyage of a Naturalist/ gives the story of Billy Button, the Patagonian, at some length. He re- lapsed because he was not strong enough by himself to stand against the united in- fluence of his old tribe, not because he preferred savage life. FRANK PENNY. Two references to cases asked for by EMERITUS occur to me. The first is in chap. x. of Da/win's ' Voyage of the Beagle,' and deals with the Fuegians. The second is an interesting note in Millar's ' Origin of Ranks,' p. 143, published in 1806 ; it concerns Hottentots. J. E. LATTON PICKERING. In, reply to the request for references to cases in which people of the lower culture of civilized life have reverted to their ori- ginal state of savagery, I may refer the ! inquirer to Miss Gordon Cummings's en- j in Fiji.' In this book, a fourth edition of which was published by Messrs. Black- wood in 1882, may be found much informa- tion concerning the return, to cannibalism by the natives of certain islands in spite of all the work of missionaries, who had to a great extent succeeded in putting a stop to this barbarous and horrible custom. In some cases the chiefs were permanently reclaimed and converted to Christianity ; in others, after amending their mode of life for a time, they relapsed into their former abominable practices. This book, j when I first read it, had a great attaction for I me, not only on account of the author's j vivid descriptions of scenery and life in the I islands of the South Pacific, where she re- I sided for two years, but also because it narrated some of the experiences of two personal friends, namely, the late Edgar Layard, who was for some time H.B.M. Consul at Levuka, and Baron von Hiigel, who, as an archaeologist and naturalist, was exploring some of the islands and collect- ing native weapons and utensils as well as natural history specimens. J. E. HARTING. Louis DE ROUGEMONT (12 S. viii. 508). COLONEL SOUTHAM errs in thinking that the hamlet of Gressy is anywhere near Rouge - mont on the Pays d'En Haut. It is a small hamlet of some 180 inhabitants, situated a little to the south of Yverdon, which is at the southern end of the Lake of Neuchatel. W. A. B. C.
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