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of Newbury, unmarried, when his property passed to his brother William, whose daughter and eventual heiress Mary married Michael Johnson of Twizell Hall. The third brother, Henry Eure, died young. The Leighton pedigree is a sadly confused one, and the following points, amongst numerous others, need clearing up :

1. Can any one identify or supply any information concerning Sir Francis Leighton, Knt., of Beoby, co. Worcester, whose daughter Barbara married Richard Walden of the Inner Temple, marriage licence dated 10 May, 1662?

2. Sir William Leighton, Lord Mayor of London, 1806. I am very desirous of finding out if Sir William was married ; if so, what descendants he had, whether he used the English (Quarterly, per fesse indented or and gules) or the Scottish (Argent, a lion rampant gules, armed or) arms. Also if there are any portraits of him in existence ; if so, whether engraved or not. He was a native of Sunderland, co. Durham, and, I believe, belonged to the Leightons of Shotton, who in the direct line terminated with Elizabeth, wife of the Hon. Eyre Massy, fifth son of Hugh, first Lord Massy. Sir William died at Kemnal House, co. Kent, on 23 April, 1826, aged seventy-four. Is there a pedigree of his family in existence anywhere 1

3. I would feel greatly obliged for any information relating to the ancestors of the late Lord Leighton. I believe the family resided for some time in the neighbourhood of Hull, and prior to that further north.

H. REGINALD LEIGHTON. Last Boldon, R.S.O., co. Durham.

OCEANIA (9<" S. viii. 342).-! think DJB. MURRAY will find that the English language owes tins word to stamp collectors. In the earliest postage - stamp albums (Lallier's Moenss, Oppen's,&c.), published between 1840 and. 1850, the world was divided for the con- venience of philatelists into Europe, Asia Atnca, America, and Oceania, which last section comprised Australia, and all the 1 lfi i'- a H S ' New Zealand, Dutch Indies, Bin, Philippines, &c. These early stamp albums became in the nature of things, destroyed as collections got transferred to newer albums, but there must be many cata- logues of stamps of that time in existence in which the word will be found. Some of the earliest are, I believe, those of Alfred Smith,

I8f o fr ' ^M S ^ 0rd Smith ' of Brighton (I860, &c.), Mount Brown (c. 1860), and John Edward Gray (1863) and a search through the early files of these catalogues would

probably date the introduction of the -rord. A correspondent in the Stamp Collector's Magazine (1 June, 1863) signs himself Oceanicus. I have searched through the first volume of this journal (1863), and find the term Oceania first used in a review of J. B. Moens's album in the December number. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

This term is, I believe, of German origin, Oceanien ; French Oceanique, or Oceania, as altered by Malte-Brun (about 1812). As a hydrographical term it may be traced to De Fleurieu ('Division et Nomenclature Hydro- graphiques du Globe,' Marchand, 'Voyage autour du Monde,' tome iv. p. 12, 1799), who, adopting the idea of German geographers, Gatterer (' Der Geographic,' 1775) and others, treated the Pacific, India, and Southern oceans as parts of one " Grand Ocean," which contained Australia, the Eastern Archipelago, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands, as a fifth part of the world, e.g., " L'Oceanique, ou Cinquieme Partie du Monde, qui comprend les Terres du Grand-Ocean entre 1'Afrique, 1'Asie, et 1'Amerique " (Ferrario, * Le Costume Ancien et Moderne,' tome iv. p. 283, 1827).

The term " oceanographie " is also, I believe, of German origin " Ozeanographie." I have Von Boguslawski's * Handbuch der Ozeano- graphie,' 1884, but the term is probably older, and might be found in Petermann's Mitthei- lungen. E. A. PETHERICK.

Streatham.

The under-mentioned work appears in a catalogue of second-hand books just issued by John Jeffery, 115A, City Road, E.C., which may probably interest DR. MURRAY :

"The 'Oceana' of James Harrington, and his other works, some whereof are now first published from his own manuscripts, the whole collected, &c., with an exact account of his life prefix'd by John Toland, 1700."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. [Is this pertinent ?]

' THE COMING K ,' &c. (9 th S. viii. 344). In the course of our lives a piece of information sometimes comes to us accidentally, but we are not therefore justified in every case in making it public property. For a week or two after the Commune there was much general excitement, both in England and abroad, to know what had become of Felix Pyat. I knew, accidentally, I suppose the day after he reached England, both that he had escaped and where he was living, but I did not inform the press. The fact is that an old college friend of mine, a well known philanthropist, now dead many years, had a ground -floor lodging in a mean street in