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ground many ages together ; but as soon as
ever they were brought into the air and saw
a bigger light, they went out, never to be
re -enkindled.'* Eden in his note refers to
Pancirolius, Lib. I. [' Rerum Memorabilium]
tit. 35, and suggests that Taylor may have
- ' met also with the story of the Lucerna
Terentina (vid. Licetus, ' De recond. antiq. lucenuV i- 24). n
None of the early accounts which Lanciani quotes of the discovery near the Via Appia mentions a lamp. But this embellishment evidently appealed to the popular imagina- tion. I cannot lay my hand at present on any other reference to the discovery of a similar lamp near Padua.
The ' N.E.D.,' it may be remarked, under 'Olibian,' defined as = Olibanum (an aro- matic gum resin), and described as " chiefly attrib.," cites "Like those subterraneous Olibian Lampes " from J. Gregory, ' Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture],* Ep. Ded. Is there a mis- understanding here ? or can Browne's Olibius be an error ? EDWARD BENSLY. Aberystwyth.
The following, from The Family Herald of 26 March, would seem to supply the explanation desired by A. H. J.:
"In 1550 a remarkable lamp was found in Padan[sic]byarustic, who unearthed a terra-cotta urn containing another urn in which was a lamp placed between two cylindrical vessels, one of gold and the other of silver. Each was full of a very pure liquid by which the lamp had been kept burning upwards of fifteen hundred years. This curious lamp was not meant to scare away
il spirits from a tomb, but was an attempt to perpetuate the profound knowledge of Maximus Olybius, who effected this wonder by his know- ledge of chemistry."
HEBBEBT B. CLAYTON.
39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.
[W. C. B. and A. R. BAYLEY also thanked for replies.]
THE BUBNING OF Moscow (11 S. i. 228,
74). When I was an attache at Frankfurt
in 1853-4 there was living in the town a Dr.
Pinkerton, who resided in Moscow at the
time of the French occupation. He was,
I believe, agent of some society for distribut-
ing Bibles and religious literature among the
Russians. I remember his saying that it was
well known in Russian society there that
Moscow was to be set on fire, but that nobody
talked openly about it. It was only
whispered in secret where the conflagrations
were to break out. SHEBBOBNE.
BBITISH BABBOWS : GBEENWELL COLLEC-
TION (11 S. i. 227, 277). The objects dis-
covered by the Rev. William Greenwell in his
explorations, and described by him in 1877
in his ' British Barrows, 4 were presented by
him to the British Museum, where they
are known as "The Greenwell Collection. '*
The crania disinterred at the same time
were presented by him to the Oxford
University Museum. Details will be found
in the respective catalogues of these
institutions.
A collection of stone implements, formed since the publication of ' British Barrows,' passed into private hands ; but Dr. Green- well's vast collection of bronze objects was recently acquired by Mr. John Pierpont Morgan, and by him presented to the British Museum, where it occupies a prominent position.
Dr. Greenwell, now in his ninety-first year, is still happily and assiduously occupied in the advancement of learning. A biographi- cal note of his career may be found in a volume of the "College History Series," ' Durham University,' by Canon J. T. Fowler, 1904, p. 150.
R. OLIVEB HESLOP.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
AUTHOBS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. i. 227). In Southgate's ' Many Thoughts of Many Minds,* London, 1865, p. 439, and Bohn's ' Dictionary of Quotations,' London, 1884, p. 407, the lines
Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank, &c.
are attributed to Thomson, the author of ' The Seasons.'- I greatly fear that this reference is incorrect. At all events, I have not met with the passage in my reading of Thomson's poems ; but, having failed perhaps to examine with sufficient care, I give the citation by Southgate and Bohn for what it is worth. W. SCOTT.
JACOBITE SONG (11 S. i. 248). The lines sought by MBS. ISDALE are from Aytoun's lay
- Charles Edward at Versailles. 1 The stanza
runs :
Give me back my trusty comrades, Give me back my Highland maid ; Nowhere beats the heart so kindly As beneath the tartan plaid.
Some of the lines in this lay, including those quoted above, have been set to music as a song. HEBBEBT MAXWELL.
[CoL. W. H. CHIPPINDALL and MR. J. GRIGOB also refer to Aytoun.]
