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mines. Here the crystallization and matrix are identical; but it is not tempting to the eyes, being of a dun colour, without brilliancy or transparency, though some small specimens have been found which resemble an opaque cairngorm.

There is another strange mistake about emeralds, viz., calling them Peruvian. Now, there neither are, nor ever were, emerald mines in Peru, the only known mines pro- ducing or which ever have produced really fine emeralds being those of Muzp and Somondoco, near Bogota in Colombia (see specimens in Nat. Hist. Museum). I ran this misnomer to earth once, after consider- able trouble (since one person copies from another), when I was writing a paper on emeralds (which I hope to publish).

In his * Mineralogy ' I found Phillips spoke of Bogota as being "in Peru"(!). He then cheerfully proceeds to class these stones as " Peruvian emeralds." IBAGU&

COLUMBARIA, ANCIENT DOVE OR PIGEON COTES (9 th S. vi. 389, 478 ; vii. 15, 116). Two other instances may be named one at Lady Place, Hurley (of which a picture is given in Jesse's * Favourite Haunts '), and one at Burn- ham Abbey, Bucks. R. B.

Upton.

YEOMANRY RECORDS (9 th S. vi. 269, 397 ; vii. 12, 34). The following volumes of yeo- manry records are included in the library of the Royal United Service Institution, accord- ing to the full catalogue compiled in 1896 :

Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry. By P. G. Webster. 8vo. Lichfield,

Historical Record of the Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Compiled by Col. Wingfield. 8vo. Shrews- bury, 1888.

1st West York Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry : its Formation, &c. By W. Sheardown. 8vo. Don- caster, 1872.

North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry 8vo. Bath, 1850.

There is also a threepenny monthly maga- zine entitled the Yeomanry Record, published by Mr. C. M. Wood at' the Clock House, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.

G. YARROW BALDOCK, Major.

At intervals during 1871-2 Mr. W. Shear- down contributed to the Dpncaster Gazette some yeomanry records, which were after- wards issued in pamphlet form, entitled 'The 1st West Yorkshire Regiment of Yeo- manry Cavalry : its Formation and Services ; with Brief Notices of other Regiments of West Riding Volunteer Cavalry.' What should also be useful to those interested is inserted, a table of thirty regiments of yeo-

manry in twenty-eight counties, in 1871. As much information appears to be given in the pamphlet as in volumes of a much more pre- tentious get-up. RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston.

Ought not the following volume to be included in this list 1 Its title-page is this :

"Memoranda | relative to the | Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, | now the Queen's Own | raised by | Other Archer, 6th Earl of Plymouth, | in 1831 ; I now under the command of | Lieut. Col. The Hon. Robert Henry Clive, M.P. | London | 1843." Pp. viii-124 (9 in. by 5in.).

J. B. WILSON, M.A.

FRANCIS THROGMORTON (9 th S. vii. 89). There was a victim of this name attainted in 1583-4 ; to all appearance he was a son of the notorious recusant Sir George by his wife named Katherine Vaux. In this case the Lady Throgmorton whom he calls " half- sister" would Ibe Anne Carew, wife of his brother, Sir Nicholas of Paulerspury ; and the "lady Scidmore" might have been Ann Throgmorton of Corse, who married Sir James Scudamore, a noted person mentioned by Spenser, and father to the first viscount ; so a distant cousin to Francis Throgmorton. This seems plausible ; but there were two others so named then living. The one so specified would be uncle to Elizabeth, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh, but never called "Lady Throgmorton," though a maid of honour to the queen. A. HALL.

Highbury, N.

" SKILLY " (9 th S. vi. 306, 378, 393). If I may trust my memory, one stanza of a song entitled 'The County Jail,' which I often heard on board ship forty years ago, is thus worded :

Then each went marching round the tub To get his county allowance of grub ; We blowed our bags out like a sail With skilly and whack in county jail. Whack, I think, means dry bread, another prison luxury. I am accustomed to hearing skinnygalee, with the meaning of lean or thin, applied to a person, and skinny with that of scanty e.g., " She is a skinnygalee," " What a skinny penn'orth ! " F. ADAMS.

Skilly, skillagaleeovskilligolee are not merely prison and workhouse words. They are, or were, much used also by sailors. Skilly = poor broth served to prisoners in hulks; also oatmeal and water in which meat has been boiled. Hence skilly galee or burgo, the drink made with oatmeal and sugar, and served to seamen in lieu of cocoa as late as 1814. In sailors' slang skillet = a ship's cook. Is not skillet more likely to have been