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C. J. Tarring (Chief Justice of Grenada) ; the
honour of Knighthood. Capt. A. E. Wood ; elected City Marshal. Lancelot Hare, C.S.I., C.I.E. ( Lieutenant-Go vernor
of Eastern Bengal and Assam) ; K.C.S.I.
1908. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith ; Prime Minister of
England.
Lionel Abrahams; C.B. (v. 1910). G. M. Bailhach-; K.C. (v. 1911). Robert Chalmers, C.B. ; K.C.B. (v. 1910, 1912). Ralph Knott ; prize design for the New County
Hall for London. Prof. W. H. Sollas, F.R.S. ; President of the
Geological Society. G. A. Stevenson, M.V.O. ; C.B.
1909.
A. Kean ; elected President of the Architectural Association.
E. S. Montagu ; Under-Secretary of State for India (v. 1910).
Dr. J. G. Simpson ; appointed to a canonry of Manchester (v. 1910).
1910.
Lionel Abrahams; Assistant Under-Secretary of State for India.
J. Auchterlonie ; appointed Professor of Philo- sophy at Aligarh, India.
Sir Robert Chalmers ; appointed Permanent Secretary to the Treasury (v. 1912).
A. G. Collins; C.M.G.
M. Delevigne; C.B. (v. 1912).
G. L. Gomme; Knighthood (v. 1912).
Hon. E. S. Montagu; Parliamentary Under-Secre- tary of State for India.
Dr. Sidney Lee; Knighthood (v. 1912).
Rev. J. G. Simpson, D.D. ; appointed to a canonry of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Sir William Soulsby, C.B., C.I.E. ; appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England.
1911.
The Rev. Dr. Edwin Abbott Abbott ; elected an Hon. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The Rev. Canon H. C. Beeching, D.Litt. ; ap- pointed Dean of Norwich.
A. E. Bendall ; appointed Joint-Examiner of Plays.
R. H. Candy, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; first place in the examination for Commis- sionors in H.M. Indian Army Medical Service.
P. E. Matheson, M.A. ; appointed on the Commis- sion which is inquiring into the methods of appointments to the Civil Service.
W. Cawthorne Unwin, LL.D. (Edin.), F.R.S. ; elected President of the Institute of Civil Engineers.
C. M. Bailhache, K.C. ; honour of Knighthood ; appointed a Judge of the High Court.
1912.
Sir Robert Chalmers, K.C.B. (Hon. Degree of LL.D., Glasgow University ; Permanent Secre- tary to the Treasury) ; appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon.
L. R. Farnell, M.A., D.Litt. (Grocers' Company Scholar of the School) ; elected Rector of Exeter College, Oxford ; Hon. Litt.D., Dublin University.
Sir Laurence Gomme ; appointed Clerk to the Lieutenancy of the County of London.
Sir Sidney Lee, D.Litt., LL.D., Litt.D., F.B.A. ;
appointed Professor of English Language and
Literature in the University of London.
W.H. Perkin, jun., F.R.S. (Professor of Chemistry in Manchester University) ; appointed Wayn- flete Professor of Chemistry, Oxford.
Rev. F. S. Webster (Sir David Salomons and Fish- mongers' Scholar of the School) ; appointed a Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Malcolm Delevigne, C.B. (Carpenter and Grocers' Scholar of the School); Assistant Under-Secre- tary of State for the Home Department.
R. W. James ; appointed Physicist to the Shackle- ton Antarctic Expedition.
S. Smith (Scholar of Queens' College, Cambridge) ; appointed Assistant in the Department of Assyriology in the British Museum.
Dr. F. H. Thiele, M.O., B.Sc., F.R.C.P. ; ap- pointed Lecturer in Bacteriology and Immunity at University College Hospital Medical School, and Pathologist at University College Hospital.
George Warrington Steevens, war corre- spondent and author, who died in Lady- smith, was also a City of London School boy. F. A. LINDSAY-SMITH.
AMERICAN SLANG: " NIXIE " (11 S. x.
329). "Nix" is German "nichts," and was
caught in the first form by Americans fro n
Geiman immigrants about the forties.
" Nixcumarouse " (" Nicht komm' heraus "'),
from a frequent warning to intrusively
curious children, was common in my boy-
hood, and is used in the ' Orpheus C. Kerr
Papers,' first series, as attributed jargon
of a German recruit in the Civil War.
" Nixie " is derived from " nix " by the same
process as " nopey " from " nope," which I
discussed a while ago, and does not mean
" nothing," but " no, indeed, "or, in present
slang, "not on your life." It has moved up
rather into a semi -jocular colloquialism :
" Going to vote for So-and-so ? " " Nixie ! '
" Have you any postage stamps handy ?
" Nixie." " Nixy, cully " (" No, you swab "),
was common in New York about 1880 ; the
comic -paper form was " Nixiculi."
FORREST MORGAN.
Hartford, Conn.
"Nixie" is one of the words mentioned and discussed by E. VALDES. He assumes that it is miners' slang and equivalent to " nothing." He is quite correct as to the meaning of the word, but I am inclined to doubt that the word is miners' slang. The word " nix " = nothing is not uncommon in many parts of this country, and would be understood nearly everywhere by any one at all acquainted with the non-literary speech of the community. It is quite probable that "nixie," having the same significance and of presumably as frequent
