F.G.S., Professor of Mineralogy and Geology, Mineralogist by Appointment to Her Majesty and the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, 149, Strand, London, W.C., Having been upwards of Fifty Years in Business, contemplates shortly retiring, and offers for SALE several of his EXTENSIVE COLLECTIONS of MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS. They are well adapted for a First-class Educational Establishment, a Provincial or Colonial Museum, or for the Private Study of any Scientific Person wishing to become acquainted with the above-mentioned Sciences. PRIVATE COLLECTION of FOSSILS, illustrative of the British Fossiliferous Deposits, the whole being stratigraphically arranged in a Cabinet with Sixty Drawers, and consisting of more than 2,800 Species, viz. :Tertiary..... Secondary. Palæozoic and comprising upwards of 8,000 Specimens. ..... 496 .1,610 2,882 Species, The Collection was originally arranged and named by the late Dr. S. P. WOODWARD, F.G.S., who also prepared a printed Catalogue of it, and many of the Specimens are figured in his "Manual of Recent and Fossil Shells," and in other Scientific Works. A large number of additions have recently been made to the Collection, and an Illustrated Catalogue prepared by MR. WILLIAM DAVIES, F.G.S., of the British Museum. MR. TENNANT had this Collection arranged to illustrate his Lectures on Geology and Palæontology at King's College. On receiving the appointment of Keeper of the extensive collection of Minerals belonging to the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, he resigned the Geological Chair, which he held from 1853 to 1869. He retains the appointment, received in 1838, of Teacher of Geological Mineralogy. The following Woodcuts are from S. P. Woodward's "Manual of the Mollusca; or, Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells," 1851-56. The Original Specimens are in MR. TENNANT'S Private Collection of Fossils, arranged by Dr. Woodward. Fig. 38. Section of Ammonites obtusus, Sby., Lias, Lyme Regis; from a very young Specimen. Fig. 39. Section of Goniatites sphæricus, Sby., Carb. limestone, Bolland. The dotted lines indicate the lateral extent of the body chamber. (P. 79.) Collection of RECENT SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS in a large and well-made Cabinet of 108 Drawers, with Glass Bookcase on the top. The Cabinet was the Property of the late Mrs. Mawe, and contains her Private Collection of Recent Shells and Minerals. Amongst the latter are some Crystals of Gold, figured in Mawe's "Travels in Brazil," and supposed to be unique. The Bookcase contains many of the recent Works on Geology by Buckland, Lyell, Mantell, Murchison, Phillips, and others, and 30 Volumes of the Publications of the Palæontographical Society, &c. Printed by E. J. FRANCIS & CO., at Took's Court, Chancery Lane, E.C.: and Published by Queries, with No. 261, Jan. 18, 1879. INDEX. FIFTH SERIES.-VOL. X. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, Monk (T.), his "Account of Kildare," 514 Ploughing by the horse's tail, 366 Prayers for the Royal Family, 434 St. Leger (Judge), 318 Shamrock as an emblem, 288 Stuart (Wm.), Archbishop of Armagh, 467 Abigail Waiting woman, 75, 98 Addy (S. O.) on Knight, his burial, 11 Adeane family of Chalgrove, 107 "Admirable History of a Magician," 1613, 127, 176 A. (E. H.) on Bishop Butler, 107 Divorce among the Romans, 125 English and French Vocabulary, 234 Speaking-tube, remarkable, 357 A. (F. S.) on Jacobean bust of Cornelius Van Dun, Agar (Mrs.), missing play by, 308 Age, old, 165 Agricola on "Bisclaveret," 107 Aguillon (Margaret), Countess of Devon, 347, 390, 456 A. (J. H. L.) on Chinese and Japanese fans, 147 A. (L.) on the Millennium, 226 Alaric (King), poem on his burial, 39, 218 Alexander the Great and the pirate, 227, 394 Alley family, 388, 455 Absalom suspended by his hair, barber's sign, 356, Allingham (J. L.), "The Fairies," 208, 237 413, 457 Absence, a brief, 107, 177 Abyssinia, its first king a serpent, 88, 134 A. (C. E.) on Monastery: Convent, 238 Ackermann (Rudolph), portraits in his "Oxford," 18 Acrobats and show people, literature of, 89 Acton (P.) on "Ost house," 227 Actors who have died on the stage, 157 Actresses first permitted on the stage, 468 Adams (B. W.) on Sir John Stephens, 8 Adams (E.) on Shakspeariana, 404 Alliterative and other verbal catches, 442, 500 "Winter Evenings," 504 Altar, custom of bowing to the, 173, 398, 437 Amen Corner, origin of the term, 137 American clergy, three, 496 Anderson (Ralph Robert), surgeon, 496 Andrews (Henry), almanac maker, 55, 76, 119; his Anglaise on Funeral Armour, 73 Anglo-Hibernian on collecting Tulken eggs, 496 Addison (Joseph), his residence in Kensington Square, Anglo-Saxon coins, works on, 380, 414 308, 414 Addy (S. O.) on Bisset family, 8 Anglo-Scotus on Cospatric or Gospatric, Christian Anglo-Scotus on Douglas, the Black, 325 Funeral armour, 317 Anon. on Chester bishopric, 288 Church Registers, their publication, 516 India, Empress of, 266 Anonymous Works :- INDEX. Aristippus; or, the Jovial Philosopher, 114 Catiff of Corsica, 348 Church of England its own Witness, 89 Claims of the Poor, 89 Commentator, The, 468 Cornelianum Dolium, 13 Index Supplement to the Notes and Aphrodite, her character, 224 "Medical Bibliography," 228, 524 Apphia, a female Christian name, 247, 372, 397 Argent on publication of Church Registers, 470 "Arminian Magazine." See Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, Armour, funeral, 11, 73, 129, 152, 199, 276, 317 Courtship and Marriage of Will Shakespeare, Arnott (S.) on Christmas play, 489 460, 522 Death-bed Scenes, 514 Foster Brothers, 19 Foster Brothers of Doon, 161, 238, 258 George the Third, Authentic Memoirs of, 430, Guernsey (Countess of), Death-bed Confessions, 414 High Mettled Racer, 389, 419, 459, 478 Arthur (King), "Morte d'Arthur"; or, "The Passing As, use of the word, 12, 271, 456 Ashworth (J. J.) on Misereres, 377 66 Letter to the Queen on the State of the Athletics, ancient, 41, 101 Athenian Gazette, or Casuitical Mercury," 61 Letters on the Church, 89 Letters to a Member of Parliament, 89 Liberal, The, 468 Lives of Celebrated Travellers, 516 Lives of Illustrious and Eminent Persons, 309, Atlas of maps of dioceses of England, 349, 413 360, 399 Memoirs of the House of Brunswick, 469 National Anecdotes, 430 Ode to Dr. Thomas Percy, 516 Old House at Home, 19, 58 Personal Sketches of Eminent Men, 69 Poems, by Tekeli, 85 Post Captain, The, 239, 279 Revelations of Russia, 239 Roman Catholic literature, 161, 201 Skating literature, 155 Speculum Episcopi, 220 Test, and Con-Test, 97 Tragedie of Jeptha his Daughter, 283, 315 Tyne Banks: a Poetical Sketch, 249 Village in an Uproar, 69 Vincent Eden; or, the Oxonian, 27, 93, 115, A. (T. M.) on "Modern Atalantis," 407 Pin well, near Chepstow, 8 "Knitbeggar" and "Couplebeggar," 387 Libraries, public European, 354 Literary competition, novel, 426 "Man proposes, but God disposes," 306 Surname, early double, 185 Telephone, its antiquity, 429 Tennyson (A.), his "Northern Farmer," 466 Ayston, bell inscription at, 515 Baldwin (Thomas), his architectural drawings, 95 Bandana, its etymology, 37 Banddelrowes, its meaning, 154, 277 Banyan day, a marine term, 439 B. (A. R.) on Funeral Armour, 199 Barbadoes, its intercourse with Virginia, 116; its Barbé (L.) on ancient athletics, 41, 101 Barker (W. P.) on Sir Nathaniel Bacon, 458 B. (E. A.) on Cottacel, its meaning, 18 Tonkin's MS. History of Cornwall, 187 Beaconsfield (Earl of), his George and Garter, 206 Bede (Cuthbert) on Argyllshire story, 492 "Blackgowns and Redcoats," 375 Barrymore (Earl of), the amateur actor, 68, 110, 376, Bell inscriptions, 17, 515 Bartlett Green, 55 Basing House, Hants, engraving of, 129 Bates (W.) on G. Smart, 183 Theatrical tooth powder, 171 Battersea, site of Watney's Distillery, 448 Bayly (Sir John), of Billericay, Essex, 448 B. (B.) on badges of Knights Templars and Hos- Dennie (Col.), his prediction, 418 Pin wells, 96 Vernon (Dorothy), 272 B. (C.) on Shack, its meaning, 417 B. (C. E.) on celebrities of 1824 and 1838, 69 Bell (D. C.) on arms of Cyprus, 229 Bell (J.) on "Lass of Richmond Hill," 168, 418 Bells, clocks upon, 55, 97 Bendysh (Bridget), her portrait, 515 Benn (Rev. R.), of Charlton upon Otmoor, 408 Bernard (H. M.) on divining rod, 356 Bernhard-Smith (W. J.) on breech-loaders, 299 Supplement to the Notes Queries, with No. 244, Jan. 16, 1375 Beverley, curious monument at St. Mary's, 289, 357 Blenkinsopp (E. L.) on Generation, length of a, 131 66 Guarantee," 235 Ralph, its pronunciation, 416 B. (G. F.) on Baldwin Registers, 408 Barrow (Isaac), D.D., 429 West Indies: Barbadoes, 376, 413 B. (H. A.) on Allingham's "The Fairies," 208 Cyprus veils, 336 Diderot's Letters, 348 Favour Resemble, 57 Louis XVIII., his reign, 199 Bible Matt. xix. 24, 154, 416; Trevisa's translation, Bickerton in the "Oxford Spy," 289 Biddell (M. J.) on "Case is altered," 276 Bingham (C. W.) on "Family Anecdotes," 248 Martial, Epig. iii. 56, 228 Biographies, collegiate and scholastic, 17 Birch (W. J.) on divination "per tabulas et capras," Bird (T.) on Fussock, its meaning, 521 Zoffany the painter, 458 Bisclaveret, its meaning and etymology, 107, 176 Bishop (Sir H. R.), his Vandunk, 429, 455, 477, 519 Bisset family, co. Bucks, 8 B. (J.) on actors who have died on the stage, 157 Mount Athos, monks of, 38 B. (J. H.) on "pitch" of cheese, 54 Wants, provincial use of the word, 398 B. (J. R.) on "Blackgowns and Redcoats," 213 B. (K. H.) on Duc d'Enghien's widow, 368 "Found at Naxos," 306 Salmasius (Claude), 387 Wakes in Cheshire, 459 Blackstone or Blakiston family, 107 Blair (D. H.) on San Stefano, 235 Blakemore (Thomas), a Waterloo veteran, 266 Good Friday, Epistle for, 431 Language, its inadequacy, 116 Law written in the heart, 214 "Man proposes, but God disposes," 436 Shrove Tuesday at Leicester, 8 Blisson (Noah), caricature of, 268, 375 Bloomfield (Robert), his "Farmer's Boy," 186 Blucher (Marshal), Prince von Wahlstadt, 185 Boase (F.) on Jones's "Court Fragments," 457 Alley family, 455 Christmas cakes, 493 Prayers for the Royal Family, 434, 519 Hebrew inscriptions on English coins, 395 Boccaccio (John), his story of a Jew, 265 Alexander VI. (Pope), 32 Book inscription, 118 Herberous, use of the word, 376 Prayers for the Royal Family, 435 Bolshun, its meaning and etymology, 97 Book inscription, sixteenth century, 118 Books, old, in the Colonies, 435 Books recently published:- Age du Bronze, 460 Allnutt's Notes on Printers and Printing, 460 439 Bewick's Select Fables, 504 Blunt's Annotated Bible, Genesis-Esther, 419 Brathwaite's Strappado for the Divell, 279 Browning's La Saisiaz, 100 Bucknill's Habitual Drunkenness, 260 Burns (Robert), Works of, vol. iv., 439 Camden Society: Harpsfield's Treatise, 40 Crake's The Andreds-weald, 400 Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian |