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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. in. MAV 20, 1005.
Appeared in JSddowes's Shreiosbury Journal,
8 April, 1874, to 21 October, 1884, at which
<Jate the paper ceased publication. A limited
number of reprints of 'Shreds and Patches'
were issued to subscribers.
' Shropshire Notes and Queries ' have ap- peared in The Shrewsbury Chronicle with slight intermission since 7 November, 1884. The reprinting of these was stopped owing to want of support. HERBERT SOUTHAM.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES (1.0 th S. iii. 243, 316). The request for a bibliography of bibliographies happens to be very timely. Only last month there was published the most comprehensive work of the kind ever accomplished in England. I need not say anything here in praise of Mr. W. P. Courtney's wonderful book.
The process of annotation, as suggested by A. R. C., is one that can only be pursued in special directions ; in such cases, however, it is of infinite importance. Every young bibliographer should remember that this ought to be a feature of work in the future. The literature of the world has now become so enormous that a system of selection and differentiation must be carried out. There are some good examples of what I mean in Allibone, when he has taken extra pains to characterize the works of an author by refer- ence to published criticisms. Some peril .attaches to this process, however, because of the personal equation. One might say, for instance, of Green's ' Short History of Eng- land ': "Interesting literary essays in a very pure style of English, but not authoritative history." This sort of thing would not do. The bibliographer is neutral in his very nature ; and his industrious labours are suffi- ciently thankless already, without their reputation being further handicapped by anything like partisanship.
EDWARD SMITH.
Wandsworth.
MAIDEN LANE, MALDEN (10 th S. iii. 329).
- Maiden in British Place-names' has been
fully discussed in ' N. & Q.' on several occa- sions : see 5 th S. xii. 128, 214, 498 ; 6 th S. i. 14, 184; ii. 18, 68, 114, 195, from which your correspondent may obtain the information he requires. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.
71, Brecknock Road.
APOTHECARIES' ACT OF 1815 (10 th S. iii. 328). MR. HEWITT should write to Mr. Upton, Clerk to the Society of Apothecaries, Blackfriars, and he would readily obtain the information he desires ; but surely he is in error when he infers that the British Museum
does not possess these registers. He should
ask for old copies of 'The Medical Directory
(published by Churchill long prior to the
official ' Registers,' first issued by the General
Medical Council after the passing of the Act
of 1858).
The General Medical Council still adver- tise that copies of ' The Medical Register for any former year can be supplied for two shillings. 'The Medical Directory ' is un- official, and copies may be frequently met with at the second-hand booksellers for a tew pence. They vary in date from about 1840 up to the present year. I possess a series of them, and shall be pleased to excerpt there from any item your correspondent desires. It may be added that an interesting feature of some of the older issues of the ' Directory is the notice (sometimes very lengthy) oi members of the profession who had died during the year preceding.
As instances of the entries I quote the following from the 1855 edition :
" Vincent, Philip, Camborne, Cornwall. In practice prior to the Act of 1815 ; Surg. to the Lam- borne Dispensary, &c."
"Williams, Allen, 11, St. Thomas's-st., boutn- wark, Lond. M.R.C.S.Eng. 1795."
"Sturgis, Thomas, 11, North-st., Manchester-sq., Lond. M.S. A. 1809."
In connexion with Mr. Allen Williams, ifc is interesting to note that the Royal College of Surgeons of England did not receive its charter until 22 March, 1800.
CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.
Baltimore House, Bradford.
A ' History of the Apothecaries' Company,' by C. R. B. Barrett, which has been very recently published by Elliot Stock, may assist your correspondent.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.
71, Brecknock Road.
TWINS (10 tb S. iii. 249, 318, 357). The in- stances cited at p. 318 induce me to state that more than fifty years ago, when I was at Eton, there were in College, as was ] myself two boys (twins) of the name of Ede, of whom I could say to quote MR. STREET'S words that, when conversing with one alone, I was not always sure to which I was speaking. Many an old " Colleger " of about my own age (seventy-three to seventy- four) could confirm my statement.
EDAVARD P. WOLFERSTAN.
IRISH SOIL EXPORTED (10 th S. iii. 328). I read somewhere, many years ago, that the governor of one of the Australian colonies, an Irishman, imported a quantity of Irish earth, and having caused a trench to be dug
