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ii a vii. Feb. 22,i9w.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Too Bishops' Transcripts (11 S. vii. 66).— I believe that it is not generally known that the fees paid by churchwardens to the Diocesan Registrar at the annual visita- tions include payment for " the tabulating in the registry the copies of the register books of baptisms and burials, and other papers required to be annually transmitted " (30 & 31 Vict. cap. 135; London Gazelle, 19 March, 1869 ; Phillimore's ' Ecclesiastical Law,' 2nd ed., p. 1059). I would suggest that churchwardens should inquire whether the bishops' transcripts have been tabulated, and if not, that they should withhold pay- ment of fees until an assurance is given that the transcripts will be tabulated. Antiquary. Cotton's 'Angler': its Motto (11 S. iv. 367).—Apparently the " three well- known living Cambridge classics " whom Mr. Stapi,eton Martin speaks of as having given up the search for the source of this quotation did not push their inquiries far enough into the Latin literature of the Renaissance. The lines which appear on the title-page of Part II. of 'The Complete Angler ' are taken from the quatrain pre- fixed to Erasmus's ' Adagiorum Chiliades':— Perfacile est, aiunt, prouerbia scribere cuiuis. Haud nego : sed durum est scribere Chiliadas. Qui mini non credit, faciat lieet ipse periclum : Mox fuerit stndiis oequior ille meis. Edward Benslv. Earth-eating (11 8. vi. 290, 351, 397, 514; vii. 98). — Earth-eating is sometimes associated with the presence of parasites such as the Ascaris lumbricoides or one of the species of Ankylostoma. Theso parasites may cause perversion of the appetite, as a result of which geophagy is practised; and since in certain countries the ova are excessively common in the soil, the indulgence in geophagy increases the infection. A vicious circle is thus estab- lished, parasitic infection being both the cause and effect of the earth-hunger. Jamieson B. Hurry, M.D. Westfield, Reading. " Bucca-boo " (11 S. vii. 89).—This word occurs in Russian as buka, defined by Reiff as " loup-garou, Knecht Ruprecht, bug- bear." In Pushkin's Shakspearian drama ' Boris Godunov,' in the scene where the ex- pectant crowds are awaiting Boris's decision to mount the throne or take monastic vows, a peasant mother frightens her weeping infant with the threat that buka will have him. Later, when general lamentation greets the news that Boris will assume the cowl, the poor little one is terrified into adding his voice by another explosion of vot buka (bogy comes). Francis P. Marchant. Mr cut 11,-im Common. History op Churches in Situ (US. vi. 428, 517 ; vii. 55).—I do not know whether booklets or pamphlets, on sale within or at the doors of the churches of which they give the history and description, come within the scope of Peregrinus's inquiry; if they do, the following list includes some churches visited within the last three years where such are to be found :— Upper Warlingham, Surrey—Four-page leaflet containing sketch of the history and " points of interest" of the church, illustrated by views of the exterior before and after restoration and enlarge- ment in 1893. Sold at the church for one penny. You take a copy and put a penny in the box. St. Peter-upon-Cornhill, City of London.—Four- page leaflet giving history and description. Sold, f think, at the same price and in the same way. Priory Church of St. Mary, Abergavenny, Mon- mouthshire.—Guide - book by the Rev. Morgan Gilbert, Vicar: 64 pages and 8 illustrations, sold at the church for one shilling. Parish Church, Leeds.—An illustrated booklet, ' History and Memorials,' by M. (J. Hodson, Precentor of the church. Sold at the church by the verger, price six]>enee. Old Parish Church, Chelsea.—Booklet giving history and description, illustrated. Sold at church, price sixpence (or perhaps a shilling). Lincoln Minster.—Penny pamphlet, four pages with plan. Sold by the verger. Ten years ago—and I suppose it is the same now—at the Church of St. Bartholo- mew the Great, West Smithfield, there used to be sold at the vestry, for the benefit of the church, a history and description of it by Xorman Moore, M.D. It was the second edition that was then on sale ; it has prob- ably by this time passed tlu'ough several other editions. Wo can at least hope so. One would bo glad to see the practice which is the subject of this correspondence more commonly adopted, and be inclined to say, with reference to F. H. C.'s last remark, that even erroneous information is better than no information and' a locked church. At Caterham the small but 'inter- esting old Church of St. Laurence, .of a typical Surrey type, has been superseded by a much larger, but entirely uninterestinir church on the other side of the road. The old church is apparently used for SundayScliool. but is kept locked up during the week. I made two visits to the place (one on a Sunday after- noon), walking up the long and somewhat steep hill from the station to the church at the top, but was unable to get in or to find any one who knew where the key wax kept.