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Reasons for passing the bill for making effectua such agreement as shall be made, between the Co ^oration and their creditors. London, n.d.

Reasons offered for the relief of the sufferers i he Corporation. London, n.d.

Reasons why the bill to impower the Corporatio

o raise 500, OOw. by way of lottery should not pass

] Condon, n.d.

The Library of the London Institution als< c ontains the following tracts :

The nature of the Charitable Corporation, am its relation to trade considered. In a letter to Member of Parliament. London, 1732.

A speech for relieving the unhappy sufferers ii the Charitable Corporation ; as it was spoken in th House of Commons May 8, 1732, by William Shippen London, 1732.

A scheme to prevent the downfal of the Ch I C n. (A satire. )

A Letter from a Member of the House of Com

mons, one of the Committee appointed to enquire

into the affairs of the Charitable Corporation, to

1 his Friends, some Merchants at Rome. In which

i are revealed the secret means used by some of the

committee-men, assistants, and servants, of the

said Corporation, for embezzling the stock. London

I 1733.

The Charitable Corporation vindicated. By M 1 Innes, Solicitor to the Corporation. London, 1745 Reasons for reviving the Charitable Corporation 1 1749.
 * In a letter to a Member of Parliament. London

EVEEARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

" ONE TOUCH OF NATURE " (8 th S. xii. 506 1 9 th S. i. 93, 149). Another flagrant and sac .example. The correspondent of the Times I who criticized the performance of ' Hamlet "

at Berlin by Mr. Forbes Robertson's company

concluded as follows :

"It is to be hoped that their success will warrant the venture, and that they may contribute, in the '.spiritual and intellectual spheres at least, to the [relations of Germany and England that touch of nature which makes the whole world akin."

transmission, he observed :
 * Subsequently, in correcting some errors in

"Lastly, it would have been a solecism had I in -he altitude of a chopine the world-worn axiom of Shakespeare by writing akin instead of kin"
 * he last word of my despatch varied by so much as

How should one criticize a critic who, raining out such a gnat as that one little swallows the indigestible camel of an tterly misread passage? I am aware that has been maintained by some whose tinions deserve respect that it is allowable create a sounding saying which was none of lakespeare's by wrenching his words from leir context with the powerful instrument of full stop ; though it may be suspected that iany thus cover their retreat from a position 'hich to their surprise they find untenable, ut that a critic who would not vary by the

altitude of a chopine an axiom which he attri- butes to Shakespeare should give his unques- tioning adhesion to a variation of an altitude that one has difficulty in measuring, is hard to understand. KILLIGREW.

" ELEPHANT " (9 th S. i. 187). It is amusing to notice the sancta simplicitas with which people propound in 'N. & Q.' obscure pro- blems which are still exercising the intellects of the profoundest scholars of Europe, and expect them to be solved off-hand by any passing ignoramus. If MR. STRONG will con- sult Hommel, 'Die Namen der Saugetiere bei den Siidsemitischen Volkern'; Geiger, ' Ostiranische Cultur im Altertuin ': or Schrader, ' Sprachvergleichung und Urge- schichte,' he will see how in Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, and Teu- tonic the names for ox, stag, camel, and elephant are connected, meaning, it would seem, simply " a large beast." Such an ob- scure problem is evidently unsuited for dis- cussion in the pages of 4 N. & Q.' FENTON.

I would refer MR. HERBERT A. STRONG to a long article on the word in the supplement to 'Anglo-Indian Glossary,' by Yule and Burnell.

F. G.

ANNE MANNING (8 th S. xii. 288). She died at Tunbridge Wells 14 Sept., 1879, and was buried at Mickleham on the 20th. Her former home had been at Reigate, in Surrey, which she left September, 1877, to live with her sisters, now dead. A. M. D.

Blackheath.

THE GLACIAL EPOCH AND THE EARTH'S ROTATION (8 th S. xii. 429, 494 ; 9 th S. i. 291). What Airy meant by the expression quoted 3y MR. HAINES was that it was Le Verrier's confident prediction of the exact place of the unknown planet, and his suggestion that it night be recognized by its disc, which led to ts actual discovery and announcement by 3alle, whilst Challis (who believed that a ong search was necessary) was still mapping he stars in the region round its supposed >lace in the heavens. And this was unques- ionably the fact.

With regard to General Drayson's theory, i discussion of it in detail would take far too nuch space for a note in 'N. & Q. } But >erhaps I may briefly refer to_ one point, he General denies tnat there is any such hing as stellar proper motion, and maintains bat the motions which astronomers call such re only apparent and produced by what he alls the second rotation of the earth's axis, it is quite clear that if this were so the mounts of these motions would have some