12 s. ii. OCT. 14, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
At the pre>ent day the chief authority upon
the subject is a well-known Scotch doctor,
John William Ballantyne. The chief books
by him which relate to this subject are :
- Teratologia, Quarterly Contributions to
Antenatal Pathology,' 1894, &c. ; ' Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene,' Edin- burgh, 1904 ; and ' Teratogenesis :_an Enquiry into the Causes of Monstrosities,'~Edinburgh, 1897. Dr. Ballantyne contributed to the Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 1891-2, xvii. pp. 99-108, ' A Series of Thirteen Cases of Alleged Maternal Impression.'
Further cases of maternal impression are found in various medical books and papers. I give one or two : Mr. J. G. Harvey pub- lished in The Medical Record New York, 1888, xxxiv. p. 535, a remarkable case which he called ' Circumcised by a Maternal Im- pression.' Other cases of maternal im- pressions may be found in The British Medical Journal, 1899, vol. ii. p. 760 ; and in The Lancet, 1863, ii. p. 27.
I recommend Ms. ACKERMANN to look through The Eugenics Review.
At the moment of finishing this reply I see I have a note of another book by Hester Pendleton, called ' Parents' Guide for the Transmission of Desired Qualities in Off- spring,' Xew York, 1884.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187, Piccadilly.
OSBEKT SALVIN (12 S. ii. 229). His mother's name was Anne Xesfield, a sister of William Andrews Xesfield. She was married July 26, 1826. See ' D.X.B.,' 1909 edition, vol. xvii. 715, and supp. vol. xxii. 1207. LEO C.
ST. XEWLYN EAST (12 S. ii. 228). The outbreak of typhoid fever at Xewlyn is described in The Times, Oct. 19, 1880, p. 3, col. 6 (' Collect. Cornub.,' by G. C. Boase).
LEO C.
SIXDNK HILL, SHOREHAM, SUSSEX (12 S. ii. 188). In the dialect of North-East Lancashire the word " slonk," now almost obsolete, was nearly synonymous with " slink," and may possibly be a corruption of it.
v. a. To slink about in an idle, shiftless manner : " 'E's doin' nowt but slonk abaat, an' 'is wife keeps 'im." " Spends 'is time slonkin' an' drinkin'."
n. One who slonks : " A slonk, that's what "e is."
adj. " A gert lazy slonkin' fella."
Also used as an adjective for dubious meat, especially of prematurely cast lambs
and calves, and of beasts killed to forestall
death in another form ; eke of the purveyors
of such stuff, e.g., " slonk beef," " slonk
butcher." In this latter form it was exactly
interchangeable with the word " slink."
JOHN H. BALDERSTONE. 11 Fair View Road, Burnley.
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S ii. 172, 211, 275). I am afraid, if all who have access to representations, imaginary or otherwise, in stained glass of actual person- ages send you an account of them, the list will be a very long one. I give, as a sample, an account of such representations to be found within this College.
In the chapel the second window from the entrance on each side is largely occupied with three figures of ecclesiastical personages. On the north side is an archbishop between two bishops. The archbishop is almost certainly Wolsey, who three years before 1518 (the date upon the window) had substituted the crown for the papal tiara in the arms of the see of York, which appear more than once in other windows in the chapel. Under the figure, also, is a rough reproduction, with some variations in detail, of Wblsey'fJ arms, which are now those of Christ Church. One of the bishops is almost certainly in- tended for Thomas Langton, Bishop of Winchester, the uncle of the donor of the windows. The uncertainty as to whether of the twain is intended to represent I^angton is enhanced by the circumstance that the head of the westernmost bishop is a restora- tion of 1717.
The opposite window on the south side has three similar effigies of a bishop and two Popes, the two latter being probably the two Pontiffs under whom Robert Langton, the donor of the windows, exercised the function of proto-notary apostolic.
In the Hall, before the present windows were inserted, the lunettes which form the uppermost part of each window once contained, along w : ith some heraldic matter, portraits of Robert Eglesfield, King Edward III., Queen Philippa, another king (conjectured to be either Henry IV. or Richard III.), King Edward IV., King Charles I., Queen Mary his wife, King Charles II., Queen Catherine, Sir Joseph Williamson, and Provost Lancaster. These pictures are probably by William Price, the last of the firm of van Linge, to which the large pictures in the chapel windows and many other chapel windows in Oxford are to be ascribed. It is possible, however, that the portraits of the two Charleses and their wives may have been adapted from paintings
