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son Thomas died in 1803, in his seventy-first
year. I am anxious to know who his father
was, and where Earswell is or was.
GEOFFREY BUTLER. Bank of England.
GOETTINGEN HIPPODROME. On the faade of a building in the Weenderstrasse, in Goettingen, Hanover, there is the following inscription. It may perhaps survive longer in *N. & Q.' than in its own place. It is surmounted by the royal arms :
PROVIDENTIA GEORGII . II
M=BRIT=REGIS . ET . ELECT=BR=LVN=
CONDITAM . A . SE . ACADEMIAM
HOC . HIPPODROMO
EXORNAVIT
MDCCXXXV.
It is in raised letters of metal fixed into the stone. Each i except that in BRIT has its dot. Has this already appeared in any book 1 E. S. DODGSON.
GREAT SEAL IN GUTTA-PERCHA. In the Mechanics' Magazine for 20 January, 1849 (vol. 1. p. 64), there is a paragraph stating that the Great Seal attached to the Irish patents for inventions issued at that date was of gutta-percha, instead of wax. The editor of the above-named periodical was a patent agent of great experience, and I have no doubt as^to the truth of the statement, how- ever difficult it may be to believe that a Chancery official, even in Ireland, could sanction so startling an innovation. Can any reader say whether a gutta-percha Great Seal is preserved in any public collection 1
R. B. P.
AGNOSTIC POETS. Can any reader of A . & Q.' give me the names of the principal representatives of agnostic poetry, and the titles of their works, with the year of publi- cation? Have the English philosophical poets of this cast ever been treated in a monograph 1 I should accept any informa- tion on this point with many thanks.
G. KRUEGER. Berlin.
SAMUEL WILDERSPIN. A contemporary re- port says that
"on Monday morning, June 7 [1847], at the hospitable board of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gaskell between twenty and thirty guests [including Charles Dickens Monckton Milnes, and Thornton LuntJ assembled at breakfast to grace the pre- sentation of a timepiece, the offering of a large lumber of children and some teachers, to their indefatigable friend, Samuel Wilderspin. A scroll containing a long list of infants' autographs hung irom i the oeilmg to the floor on which the remainder ot the coil rested, bearing no doubt many names
destined to future celebrity. Beside this scroll'
appeared Wilder-spin's portrait, an excellent like-
ness and an admirable work of art, the production
of the pencil of J. R. Herbert, R.A."
Where may this (or any other portrait of Wilderspin) now be seen 1 Was it (or any other portrait) engraved? DAVID SALMON. Swansea.
"GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHOSE LIGHT IS
LOW. "I should be glad to know where I can find a passage which runs nearly as follows : "Good news is brought to those whose light is low, telling them the things which belong, unto their peace." EXEMPLAR.
SIR WILLIAM CALVERT. I should be glad to know the date of the death of Sir William Calvert (Lord Mayor of London in 1748), and where some account of him can be found.
D. E.
New Bedford, Mass.
EOYAL ARTILLERY OFFICERS. Biographies of the following are wanted for the purpose of completing the regimental records :
Major-General Sir Haylett Framingham, K.C.B., K.C.H., died at Cheltenham, 10Mav r 1820. f
Major - General Sir John May, K.C.B., K.C.H., died in London, 8 May, 1847.
Brevet - Major Robert Hutchinson Ord r , K.H., died at Woolwich, 4 December, 1828. J. H. LESLIE, Major.
Army and Navy Club, St. James's Square.
"WHEN SHE WAS GOOD," &c. Who is the author of the poem in which the following lines occur 1
When she was good, she was very very good, But when she was bad she was horrid.
Q. W. V.
[We fancy the author is Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the American poet.]
DONALD CAMERON was admitted to West- minster School, 5 February, 1783. Any particulars concerning him would be of use.
G. F. JR. B.
GEORGE SMART, about the year 1810, in- vented a machine for cleaning chimneys, obtaining the Society of Arts' two gold medals and the premium offered by them for the best mechanical means for chimney- cleaning. He named his invention the "Scan- discope," an account of which is given in Hone's 'Every-Day Book' and in the 'Penny Encyclopedia.' His invention superseded the limbing-boys eventually, although at the
- ime the greatest opposition was shown to it
the master chimney-sweeps. The Gentle- nan's Magazine states that he was a timber
