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effect, especially if it were the serum only of
the blood which was used. In England the
blood collected in the large slaughter-houses is
sent in casks to factories, where its serum is
separated and dried, thus producing albumen
for sizing and other purposes. While it is
to be hoped that this albumen does not take
the place of egg-albumen for confectionery,
yet it might make a good glazing material
for an earth-floor. Blood-albumen sounds
less pleasant, and it is possible that a floor
glazed with it might afford as fine a culture-
medium for the tetanus microbe as the
downy earth-floors of St. Kilda. In India
the earth floors almost always used in
native houses, and well adapted to bare feet,
are kept hard and clean by a periodical
wash of cow-dung made fluid with water.
When this has dried, the floor has become
coated with a mixture of straw-fibre which
binds the surface and some biliary matters
which drive away fleas, thus keeping the
floor in good and comfortable condition.
The use of blood for the purpose would, one
might suppose, be rather favourable to insect
life. EDWARD NICHOLSON.
Liverpool.
DR. BUROHELL'S DIARY AND COLLECTIONS (10 th S. ii. 486). Dr. W. J. Burchell's library, botanical and general, was sold at Messrs. Foster's, 54, Pall Mall, 5 Dec., 1865. PROF. POULTON should call and ask Messrs. Foster if he may see the sale catalogue; or I would lend him my copy. W. ROBERTS.
47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.
NELSON IN FICTION (10 th S. iii. 26). In response to MR. JAMES HOOPER'S suggestion I offer the following list of novels and tales " dealing with Nelson and his times, directly or indirectly ":
By Conduct and Courage. G. A. Henty. Battle of Cape St. Vincent, &c.
In Press Gang Days. Edgar Pickering. Battle of the Nile.
At Aboukir and Acre. G. A. Henty. Battle of the Nile.
Afloat with Nelson. C. H. Eden. Nile to Tra- falgar.
The Admiral. Douglas Sla.deu. 1798-9.
The Vice- Admiral of the Blue. Roland B. Moli- neux (pub. U.S.)- Naples and London (Hardy, Lady Hamilton, <fcc.).
The Extraordinary Confessions of Diana Please. Bernard Capes. Naples, 1798-9 (Lady Hamilton,
&.C.).
When George III. was King. Amyot Sagon. Time of Nelson (Cornwalll.
A Friend of Nelson. Horace G. Hutchinson. Sussex in 1801-15 period.
Springhaven. R. D. Blackmore. Trafalgar.
Trafalgar. B. Pcrex Galdus (trans.)- Ditto.
England Expects. Frederick Harrison. Ditto.
Nelson's Yankee Boy. Costello (pub. U.S ).
Trafalgar.
With the Sea Kings. F. H. Winder. Ditto.
'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay. Walter Besant and James Rice. Dorset, 1805 (short story).
The Commander of the Hirondelle. W. H. Fit- chett. Nelson and his times.
Chris Cunningham. Gordon Stables. Ditto.
Hearts of Oak. Gordon Stables. Ditto.
His Majesty's Sloop Diamond Rock. H. S. Huntingdon (pub. U.S.). Ditto.
Diana's Crescent. Miss Manning (op.). Ditto.
The following depict maritime life in the days of Nelson, i.e., from late eighteenth to early nineteenth century :
Ben Brace. Capt. F. Chamier.
Frank Mildmay. Capt. Marryat.
King's Own. Ditto.
Mr. Midshipman Easy. Ditto.
The Fire Ships. W. H. G. Kingston.
Ben Burton. Ditto.
The Log of a Privateersman. " H. Collingwood" (W. J. C. Lancaster).
Under the Meteor Flag. Ditto.
The Death Ship. W. Clark Russell.
Uncle Bart. G. Manville Fenn.
As We Sweep through the Deep. Gordon Stables.
Unless I am mistaken, the above lists will be found to include very nearly all the fiction (of any note or bulk) which deals with the great admiral. JONATHAN NIELD.
ALGONQUIN ELEMENT IN ENGLISH (10 th S. ii. 422 ; iii. 34). In reply to DR. KRUEGER, there is no etymological connexion between woodchuck, the bird, and woodchuck or wood- shock, the quadruped. The former may have influenced the orthography of the latter, which is corrupted from a Cree word, variously written by different authorities, but most correctly ivuchak (see Watkins, 'Cree Dictionary,' 1865). Other Algonquin dialects have similar names for this animal. Roger Williams gives the Narragansett equivalent as ockqutchaun : compare also Abenaki agaskw, Shawnee ochaikah, Odjib- way ojeeg. This last is unaccountably omitted from the glossary to Longfellow's ' Hiawatha,' although used in canto xvi. : He was telling them the story Of Ojeeg, the Summer-Maker, How he made a hole in heaven, How he climbed up into heaven, And let out the summer-weather, The perpetual, pleasant Summer.
J. PLATT, Jun.
"BROKEN HEART" (10 th S. iii. 9). This expression is not always " metaphorical " ; it is sometimes literally true. A short pamphlet was published last year, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, on 'The Physical Cause of the Death of Christ.' It is written by Dr. E. Symes Thompson, and I think all will agree that what he says on
