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of Galicia and Lodomeria." See Spruner- Menke (third edition, 1880), map 71, inset Poland, 1793. Cumania looks in the direction of the Comans, or Cumans, of whom, Gibbon says (ch. Ixiv.), Bela IV. had adopted " a vagrant horde of forty thousand families." Ferretum is the countship of Pfirrete in Upper Alsace, between Basel and Belfort (Spruner - Menke, 38, 40). Goritia is the countship of Gortz, between the Julian Alps and the Gulf of Trieste (Spruner-Menke, 41, &c.). Lusatia is now divided between Prussia and Saxony. The two divisions of the mar- quisate are shown in Spruner-Menke, 43, as Nieder- and Ober- Lausitz. Salinse : this countship was in Burgundy (Franche Comte) (Spruner-Menke, 41, &c.). Kyburgi suggests Coburg as a guess.

Leopold is described as "Comtede Colonitz, Hongrois, ev. de Javarin, puis de Neustad, et archev. de Strigonie" (Las Matrie, 'Tresor,' 1234). He was created cardinal-priest by Innocent XI. in 1686, and died in 1707. Strigonie (Strigoniensis) is in German Gran, the primatial see of Hungary. Szechey's linked sees were the modern Kalocsa and Bacs, which are still united both in Hungary. C. S. WARD.

Woottoii St. Lawrence, Basingstoke.

NATUEE STUDY (9 fch S. xii. 127). Since I wrote my attention has been drawn to a pamphlet entitled 'Nature Study at the British Museum,' by the Rev. Percy Myles, B.A., F.L.S., Vice-President of the Baling Natural History Society. It is an address delivered on 22 February, 1890, on ' How to use our great National Museum of Natural History for the Purpose of Nature Study.' This is, perhaps, not the sense in which the term is used in educational circles to-day. R. HEDGER WALLACE.

Might not this expression have been taken from Sir Henry Wotton's (1568 - 1639) 1 Remains,' where he says, " Nature, if she be well studied, is the best moralist, and hath much good counsel hidden in her bosom " 1

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

JOHN ANGIER (9 th S. xii. 128, 197). ME. WALTER is right in assuming that John Angier, who was born in 1629, was the son of John Angier, of Denton. He was not born in Boston, U.S., but at Boston in Lincoln- shire. He was appointed minister of Ringley Chapel, in Lancashire, in 1657. He after- wards settled in Lincolnshire, and is believed to have left issue. When he presented himself for the ministry in 1657 some objec- tion was raised to his former course of life,

and it is just possible that from 1651 to 1655 he was in Boston, Mass. Of his descendants nothing appears to be known. In 1682 Samuel Angier, his uncle's son, records in his diary : " Cousin John Angier was with us about 14 days and 3 weeks in May and June." Your correspondent may refer to vol. xxxvii. of the Chetham Society's Publications, where he will find a pedigree of the Anglers of Dedham and Denton. HENRY FISHWICK.

John, the son of John Angier, the Non- coriformist divine, of Denton, was born in Boston in 1629. He went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and, having taken orders, was "appointed to Ringley Chapel, but removed into Lincolnshire, where he was resident at the time of his father's death," which occurred on 1 September, 1677 (see ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' s.v. Angier, John, vol. i. p. 418). G. F. R. B.

" CRYING DOWN CREDIT " (9 th S. xii. 29, 138, 213). In reply to ST. SWITHIN regarding his query, there is no particular melody con- secrate to such occasions ; the selection of tunes is usually left to the bandmaster, and if he be of facetious temperament, such tunes as are played by the band of a regiment in its peregrinations often cause a smile from the initiated. Personally, I have always ordered the band to play the 'Dead March' with variations ! The custom is a remnant of fossilized military administration.

THE AUTHOR OF * THE GRAPHIC ' ARTICLE.

NAVAL PRONUNCIATION (9 th S. xii. 28, 118). Regarding the pronunciations "lieutenant" (lew-), '* tackle," and " helium," instanced at the first reference, I would say that the former pronunciation is universal in the United States, where form, analogy, and the dictionary have largely swamped tradition in pronunciations. " Tackle " is the customary pronunciation among the rank and file of carpenters and truckmen, &c. ; and "helium" corresponds to "elluin," the usual and traditional pronunciation among the un- educated country population of New England similar in genesis to other cases of putting a buffer vowel between a liquid and another letter, as "alarum," &c. See Dr. Holmes's 'One-Hoss Shay,' "The hubs of logs from the Settler's ellum." F. M.

ROBERT DICKSON, F.L.S. (9 th S. xii. 149, 194, 236). For this author, mentioned at the above references under W. H. Cullen, see ' D.N.B.,' xv. 44, and Britten and Boulger's ' Biographi- cal Index of British and Irish Botanists,' p. 49. W. ROBERTS.