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by Smith and Wace, mentions three. One member of the Royal Institute of British

these, son of St. Nilus a monk of Mount Architects, which was incorporated by royal

Jinai in the fifth century, had a day marked charter in 1837 under the auspices of Earl

memory in some calendars, on Grey. He published in 1805 a pamphlet con-

14 January (I do not know whether he is demning the use of Flemish bond in brick-

e one that PROF. SKEAT tells us is com- work, and contributed some papers to Wonted at Zermatt.) According to the \Archaeologia between 1811 and 1833, which

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gend, he was taken prisoner by the Arabs, were reprinted. His paper on the extent of

vvno intended to sacrifice him to the morning Westminster at various periods (Archceokgia,

star, but he escaped. Possibly the inventor vol. xxvi.) is interesting reading for an a'nti-

t an instrument to be used in observing quary. JOHN HEBB

may have named it after this saint, who is

supposed to have lived just a thousand years THE LATE MR. GEORGE MURRAY SMITH betore the earliest known use of the word by AND THE AUTHORS FOR WHOM HE PUBLISHED. Thnma* n^^c,, v,,-. ' Pantometria,' pub- 1 The daily and the weekly press have ren- dered fitting tribute to this eminent pub- lisher, and the notice in your last number does well to refer to his generosity and kindliness. His relationship with his authors was not a mere question of s. d., but in

_ many cases became one of intimate friend- Thomas Bugge, then Professor of Astronomy I sn ^P- This had an influence throughout the

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lished in 1571.

I should like to quote a passage from a scientific book of more than a century ago, which seems to show that the word had not at that time become familiar out of England. It is in the % Observationes Astronomicse' of

entire establishment, and it has often been my privilege to hear members of his staff

at Copenhagen, which appeared in 1784. At p. liii we read, after an account of the improve- - -

ments in telescopic instruments effected by speak of the authors whose works were being Romer: "Mentem Roemeri sequi creperunt published by the firm in terms almost affec- artifices Angli, construentes astrolabia majora Donate. This was notably so in the case of (Theodolits) et instrumenta sequatorialia." Robert Browning and James Payn, who, like TI-KWW^K*., .-~ -__J-_AI_ _j.__j_ J, i I Dickens, was "a model editor." What Mr.

Payn wrote of "The Master," in his post- humous article in the Cornhill Magazine of November, 1899, 'An Editor and some Con- tributors,' may well be applied to himself: "All men of letters were akin to him, and the humblest writer, provided he could show himself fitted for the calling he had chosen, was as a younger brother."

Those who knew Mr. Smith will readily join in the testimony, quoted in the Aca- demy of last week, which Sir John Millais wrote on a slate when he was dying : "The kindest man and the best gentleman I have had to deal with." N. S. S.

is evidently intended to be taken as an English plural. W. T. LYNN.

GEORGE SAUNDERS, F.R.S., F.S.A., ARCHI- TECT (1762-1839). I have had occasion to look up the biography of this gentleman, and, as is commonly the case, I find the references to him meagre and in some instances in- accurate. The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' states that he died at his residence in Oxford Street, but does not give the number of the house, nor the day of the month on which he died ; and further states that "a marble bust of him by Cheverton after Chantrey belongs to the Royal Society of British Architects." Saunders died at his residence, No. 252 (now No. 489), Oxford Street, on the south ^ide of that street, near the Marble Arch, on 26 July, 1839. The Royal Institute of British Archi- tects possesses a small ivory bust of him by B. Cheverton, reduced from a life-size marble bust by Chantrey, formerly belonging to the Commissioners of Sewers of Westminster and

part of Middlesex, and now the property of I j. G. LEMAiSTRE.-The enclosed question the London County Council. has been addressed to us by one of our con-

baunders, who does not appear to have had tributors, who has asked that it be submitted an extensive practice as an architect, was for to you for publication in 'N. & Q.' should twenty- eight years the chairman of the Com- you judge it advisable. He keenly desires a missioners of Sewers for Westminster and reply

part of Middlesex He was a Fellow of the MJ> G LEMATSTKE: SON VOYAGE A PARIS EN -hoyal bpciety and of the Society of Anti- l801.-Pourrait-on fournir-quelques renseignements quaries, but does not appear to have been a biographiques sur ce voyageur anglais, qui a succes-

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, that the answers may be addressed to them