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speaks of ' For the Term of his Natural Life, by Marcus Ward (s^c), a mistake also made in the last summer number of the Argosy. A week or two ago in the Cheltenham Examine? the writer of the ' Lady's London Letter spoke of " Gabrielle d'Annunzio " as if that famous decadent were a woman. A writer- even more recently in the Free Lance ascribes Washington Irving's phrase "the almighty dollar " to Lincoln. And so on.

CRITICASTER.

[They have not time often, too, not the equip- mentto be accurate.]

BYFIELD FAMILY. Richard Byfield, yicar of Stratford-on-Avon, left two sons Nicholas, born 1579, died 1622 (father of the well-known Adoniram Byfield), and Richard, born 1598, died 1664. Can any of your readers tell me how Nathaniel Byfield, born 1607, died 1664, was related to the vicar of Stratford ? Was he his son 1 J. H. W.

DAVENPORT-HULME. I should be glad to know whether James Davenport - Hulme, M.D. (1772-1848), of Manchester, has any descendants now living. He had five chil- dren, who all died unmarried except John Rhodes Davenport-Hulme, M.D. (born 1803; died 1871, at Durban, Natal), who married. 1833, Maria, daughter of James Walkden, or Mansfield, Notts, solicitor, and who in 1834 was appointed a special magistrate to Jamaica, where his three children, John Rhodes, Jarnes Walkden, and Elizabeth Anne, were born. I also wish to know whether James Davenport-Hulme's sisters, Anne Hulme, wife of Thomas Brookes, of Manchester, and Hannah Hulme, wife of Joseph Deville, have left descendants. These particulars are from Sleigh's ' History of the Ancient Parish of Leek.'

ALEYN LYELL READE. Park Corner, Blundellsands.

" So LONG." What is the derivation of this expression, much used now as a salutation 1

H. G. H.

[See 6 th S. ii. 67, 194, 496; iii. 18, for various explanations.]

WAUROM. In an apprenticeship indenture dated 1688 one of the parties is described as "of Waurom in the county of Hertford, yeo- man." Being unable to trace such a place in any gazetteer, history, or directory, I should be grateful for an explanation. M. F.

FRIAR'S CRAG, DERWENTWATER. This crag is popularly called Square Coppy End. Can any light be thrown on the derivation and meaning of " Coppy " ? Is it at all connected

with kopje? It may be mentioned that in the local dialect a footstool is a "coppy- stiihl." COCKSHOT.

DURATION OF LIFE IN SEEDS. There is a saying in Kent that ox-eye seeds and thistle seeds live for ever. We also know that wheat will germinate after centuries of death in life in mummy- wrappings. Is this long duration of life in seeds unusual? Is it known how long the vitality will last in the seeds of Bellis perennis, the common daisy of our lawns and fields ? MEGAN.

[For ' Mummy Wheat ' see 8 th S. i. 224, 363, 479 ; ii. 55, 187, 296 ; iii. 246 : 9 th S. iv. 274 ; and references further back.]

HUITSON FAMILY. Any notes as to the Huitson or Huteson family will be thankfully received. Col. John Huitson (eighteenth century) bore coat armour, but no crest. I have looked through several works on crests, but am unable to find one assigned to the name. Perhaps some of the readers of tell me the origin of the name, which is said to be Danish. R.
 * N. & Q.' might assist me in this, and also

JAMES JUSTINIAN MORIER. Is there any reason why in the list of his works in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' ' The Adventures of Hajji Babaof Ispahan in Eng- land ' (London, 1828, 8vo, 2 vols.) is omitted ? This book was reviewed by Sir Walter Scott in the Quarterly Review for January, 1829 (vol. xxxix. 73-99). It was published by Bentley in 1835 as No. xlv. of his set of " Standard Novels," and a cheap edition of it in yellow boards was produced by Ward & Lock in 1856. In the same list no mention is made of Morier's ' Oriental Tale,' Brighton (1839), 8vo. For 'Martin Troutroud, or the Frenchman in London' read 'Martin Tout- rond : a Frenchman in London in 1831.'

G. F. R. B.

CHINESE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Can any one inform me if there is any trustworthy evidence of a Chinese document having been found in one of the Government buildings of Pekin during the present occupation of the city, this document giving an account of the American continent having been dis- covered by the Chinese at a period long anterior to the time of Columbus? I rather think I saw a notice of the above in one of the English papers within the last three or four months. ELAND.

WALLER FAMILY. Has the connexion ever been found between Alured de Waller, of Newark, who died in 1183, and the family of