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Hardy Weeds a preventive of potato disease and Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid. Saturday, September 25, 1852. A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. Page 309 311 311 312 313 314 314 Notes. NOTES ON THE DODO. Having noticed in your recent Nos. several communications on the subject of the Dodo, which have been elicited by the Queries which I proposed in "N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 262., allow me to thank your various correspondents for their kindness in 314 supplying me and others with some valuable information. I have already (Vol. i., p. 410., and Vol. ii., p. 24.) noticed the communication of MR. SINGER: the next that I find is by an anonymous correspondent, who signs himself T. J., and who refers me, in answer to Query 7., to Hyde's Historia Religionis Persarum, for a notice of the Dodo existing, A.D. 1700, in the Ashmolean Museum. This passage, however, was well known to me, and is referred to in The Dodo and its Kindred, p. 23. 315 317 319 319 320 321 322 - 322 Muffs worn by Gentlemen, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, &c. 322 323 I therefore pass on to MR. J. M. VAN MAANEN, who in Vol. v., p. 515., refers to Nieuhof's Brasiliaense zee en lantrieze, Amsterdam, 1682, as an 318 original authority on the Dodo. I had already consulted the translation of this work in Churchill's Voyages, vol. ii. p. 354.; but neither it nor the Dutch edition appear to supply original information. There is, I believe, no proof that Nieuhof ever visited Mauritius or saw a Dodo. His figure is evidently reduced from the original one in Piso's edition of Bontius's Historia Naturalis et Medica India Orientalis, 1658, from which almost all the figures given by later compilers were copied. And Nieuhof's description seems also to be little more than a compilation from the accounts of antecedent authors. The only point of interest in it is the derivation, which Nieuhof alone gives us, of the name Dodaers, which refers, as I had conjectured, to the rotundity of the bird's hinder parts and the laziness of its movements. Of the name Dronte, however, he gives us no information, and its etymology is still to seek. MR. PINKERTON, at p. 83. suprà, refers to a passage of Froberville, from which it is evident that a MS. journal by Pingré is still, or was recently, in existence. As this MS. brings down the existence of the Solitaire in Rodriguez to as late a date as 1761, it is evidently a very important and valuable document; and I should feel greatly obliged to any of your readers in Paris who can ascertain its whereabouts, and give me any information respecting it. It will probably be found among the archives of the Académie des Sciences, as it is referred to in the Histoire of that Academy for 1776, p. 37., as I have already noticed in The Dodo and its Kindred, p. 65. I have also to thank MR. PINKERTON for guiding me to a published account of the voyage of the Sieur Dubois, and I shall take an early opportunity of comparing the published volume with the MS. belonging to the Zoological Society, and ascertaining their identity. At p. 172. suprà, MR. PINKERTON very justly asks whether the "strange fowle" seen by Sir Hamon L'Estrange in London, about 1638, may not have been a Solitaire rather than a Dodo,as I and others had supposed. I had indeed long been aware of the discrepancies between Sir Hamon's description and the features of the true Dodo, as handed down to us by other authorities, but I merely attributed them to the extreme vagueness which attaches to all natural history descriptions of that period. I admit, however, that it is quite as likely that the showman misnamed the bird as that Sir Hamon misdescribed it; and the affinities which it seems to present to the Solitaire of Leguat may perhaps justify us in regarding them as identical. The exhibition in London of a living Solitaire is, however, quite as interesting a fact as that of a living Dodo, and equally makes us regret that Sir Hamon and his cotemporaries did not give us more circumstantial accounts respecting it. In concluding this notice of the communications of others, will you allow me to answer one of my own Queries, as to the existence of any additional pictures of the Dodo, by referring to the interesting painting which Mr. W. J. Broderip obligingly exhibited last spring to the Zoological Society? Mr. B. has given a full account of it, accompanied by an engraved fac-simile, in the Literary Gazette for March 27, 1852. The picture is by Roland Savery, who has already supplied us with several representations of this bird in different positions, and has here given a back view of the Dodaers in a highly characteristic and interesting attitude. The animation of this design furnishes an additional presumption that Savery must have had before him a living specimen, which served as the model for his various pictures. I will conclude by proposing two more Queries on this subject, in addition to my former ten. Query 11.-In the Penny Magazine for Jan. 4, 1834, it is stated that Mr. Reinagle, the eminent artist, had sent the editor a letter recording that he one day discovered among the cimelia of the British Museum "the head and beak, with the short thick legs, of a bird, which instantly struck him to be those of the Dodo. Mr. R. immediately ran with the relics to Dr. Shaw, who in the end concurred with him in considering the remains as those of the Dodo, the existence of which seemed to them as no longer questionable. Mr. R. has not been able to learn what became of the fragments, but they ought still to be somewhere in the British Museum." If Mr. Reinagle's reminiscences were correct, this statement is of great interest and importance, and it is surprising that no attention has been given to it. I therefore beg to ask whether there is any reason to suppose that these relics are still "somewhere in the British Museum"? N.B. Of course they have no reference to the wellknown Dodo's leg in the Bird Gallery, which has never been lost sight of since the days of Grew. Query 12.-In Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, New Series, No. 400. p. 142. for August, 1851, it is stated that the Society of Sciences at Haarlem have offered a prize for any further information concerning the Dodo. Perhaps MR. van Maanen, or some other of your Dutch correspondents, can inform me whether this liberal offer has led to any result? H. E. STRICKLAND. P.S.Allow me to take this opportunity of observing how greatly your excellent periodical would gain in value if you could persuade your correspondents more frequently to address you by their real names instead of doing so by assumed titles. This applies more especially to those gentlemen who are so obliging as to answer Queries. Their answers frequently relate to simple matters of fact, which no one need be ashamed of communicating, and which would often gain greatly in value if authenticated by a real signature. It is surely a false modesty which makes so many learned and well-informed gentlemen assume an unmeaning nom-de-guerre in place of their true denominations. I may mention as an example of the good effects of authenticating information, the case of Loudon's Magazine of Natural History. This periodical passed in 1837 into the hands of Mr. Edward Charlesworth, who, among other reforms, insisted that his contributors should attach their real names to their communications. By this simple regulation he shook off a number of timid scribblers, induced others to bestow more labour on their communications, for the accuracy of which the publication of their real signatures now rendered them responsible; and he thus speedily cleared his magazine from its former twaddle, and raised it into a first-rate scientific publication. THE PASSAME SARES GALIARD. I have lately found in A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes, by Richard Ligon, Gent.: London, 1673, a passage that may serve as a note on a stage direction in the 2d part of King Henry IV. Ligon was passenger on board the good ship Achilles, "a vessel of 350 tunns, the master, Thomas Crowder of London," which sailed from the Downs on the 16th June, 1647, and touched at St. Jago, "one of the isles of Cape Verd, and now revolted from the King of Spain to the Portugal," to trade for negroes, horses, and cattle, which were to be sold at "the Barbadoes." While their vessel was in harbour, Ligon, and some of his fellow-passengers, went on shore and dined with the Padre Vagado, governor of the island. The extract that follows gives an account of the manner in which this "Portugal” entertained his guests during the repast. Bernardo Mendes de Sousa, who assisted the Padre in doing the honours of his house, was the supercargo on board the Achilles, who would willingly have made a prize of his charge, if he had been supported by Vagado. I hope this short setting forth of date, place, circumstances, and names may not be considered an unnecessary preface: "Dinner being near half done [the Padre, Bernardo, and the other black attendants, waiting on us], in comes an old fellow whose complexion was raised out of the red Sack, for near that Colour it was; his head and beard milk-white; his Countenance bold and cheerful: a Lute in his hand, and play'd us for a Novelty, The Passame sares galiard,' a tune in great esteem in Harry the fourths dayes; for when Sir John Falstaff makes his Amours to Mistress Doll Tearsheet, Sneake, and his Company, the admired fiddlers of that age, playes this Tune, which put a thought into my head; that if Time and Tune be the Composits of Music, what a long time this Tune had in sayling from Eng land to this place. But we being sufficiently satisfied with this kind of Harmony, desired a song; which he performed in as Antique a manner; both savouring much of Antiquity; no Graces, Double Relishes, Trillos, Gropos, or Piano forte's, but plain as a packstaff; his Lute too, was but of ten strings, and that was in fashion in King David's dayes; so that the rarity of this Antique piece pleas'd me beyond measure." - P. 12. [Query for the logicians: Was the thought that entered into our author's head a good hypothetical argument?] All that remains for me now to do, is to point out the stage direction to which I have alluded: "1st Draw. Why then, cover, and set them down: And see if thou can'st find out Sneak's noise; Mistress Tear-sheet would fain hear some musick, &c. person is speaking well of you; but if your left ear Ear-burning. If your right ear burns, some burns, they are slandering you. I have twice seen the following means used to reTo discover the Body of a drowned Person. cover the body of a drowned person. A penny roll, with a quantity of quicksilver in a hole in the centre, was allowed to float on the water, in the firm belief that it would stand still over the place where the body lay. In neither case did it succeed. Cuckoo Penny. If when you hear this bird you turn a penny over in your pocket, you will never be without one until you hear him again. It is unlucky to kill a cricket. Crickets. - you Beetles. - If kill a beetle it is sure to rain. Spider. often gets on our clothes or hats; this is called a There is a small black spider that money spider," and if you kill it you will be sure to suffer for it by a lack of the needful. 66 Marriage. Be sure when you go to get married that you don't go in at one door and out at another, or you will always be unlucky. The Bridal Bed and the Death Bed. - Whichever goes to sleep first on the marriage night, will be sure to die first; this is as true as scripture, at least they say so. Marrying and Burying. - Happy is the bride the sun shines on, and blessed is the corpse the rain falls on. Cures for Warts. - Steal a piece of meat, rub your warts with it, then hide the meat, and as it decays so will your warts; or, rub them with a "bean swad," then throw the pod away, and as it decays so will your wart. It's unlucky to meet a funeral; to rob either a robin or a swallow's nest; to cross your knife and fork, or to upset the saltcellar (if you do the latter you must throw a pinch over your left shoulder, and it renders the unlucky deed of noneffect); to be first wished a merry Christmas or happy new year by a fair man. Valentine Morn. You'll marry the man or the woman, as the case may be, that you meet the first on Valentine morn. To give away a knife, a razor, or a pair of scissors to a friend, is to cut their acquaintance, for you are sure to fall out after; therefore you must take money for them, be it ever so little. To dream of your Sweetheart.-Take the bladebone of a rabbit and stick nine pins in it, and then put it under your pillow, and you will be sure to see the object of your affections. To cut a child's nails before it is twelve months old is unlucky. If you wish well to your neighbour's child, when it first comes to your house you must give it a cake, a little salt, and an egg. Hull. NICTILLIS NICTOLLIS. Minor Nates. MS. Notes in Books. -In a fine copy of the Rituale ad usum Diœcesis Silvanectensis, Auctoritate Illustrissimi ac Reverendissimi D.D. Joannis Armandi de Roquelaure Episcopi Silvanectensis editum, in my possession, is the following note upon the fly-leaf, which appears to me worthy of preservation in your columns: "Liber hic ab Illustrissimo Domino Joanne Armando .... M.DCC.LXIV, cum The volume is a quarto, printed "Silvanecti, Typis Nicolai des Rocques.. privilegio Regis." In some instructions "De Materia Baptismi" is the following curious passage relative to filling the font: "Quod si aqua conglaciata sit, curet [i. e. parochus] ut liquefiat: sin autem ex parte congelata sit, aut nimium frigida; poterit parum aquæ naturalis non benedictæ calefacere, & admiscere aquæ baptismali in vasculo ad id parato, & eâ tepefactâ uti ad baptizandum, ne noceat infanti."-Page 7. In the office for baptism is an address ad circumstantes in the vulgar tongue (French). The questions and responses, Abrenuntias Satana? &c.,. are permitted to be put either in Latin or French. Silvanectis is the latinized name of Senlis, in the department of the Oise. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. Uneasy is the head that wears a crown." of the curve of the letter c to the letter l in clown. JAMES CORNISH. de Roquelaure Archiepiscopo Mechliniensi (olim Epi- "I wait but for my guard."-Vide Shakspeare, King Henry V., Act IV. Sc. 2., the last speech in the scene: "I wait but for my guard: on to the field," &c. |