ncluded the official
medical report from the _Journal of Medical Science_, Dec. 1852.

W. C. TREVELYAN.

_Do the Sun's Rays put out the Fire?_ (Vol. vii., p. 285.).--

"Why does the sun, shining, on a fire, make it dull, and often
put it out?

"1st. Because the air (being rarefied by the sunshine) flows
more slowly to the fire; and

"2ndly. The chemical action of the sun's rays is detrimental
to combustion.

"The sun's rays are composed of three parts; lighting,
heating, and actinic or chemical rays. These latter interfere
with the process of combustion."

The above is an extract from Rev. Dr. Brewer's _Guide to the Scientific
Knowledge of Things Familiar_, 6th edition, p. 50., which may perhaps
prove interesting to C. W. B. At p. 58. of the same book, H. A. B. will
find, I think, an answer in the affirmative to his Query (Vol. vii., p.
286.): "Is there such a thing as spontaneous combustion?"

C---- S. T. P.

W---- Rectory.

_Dover Castle_ (Vol. vii., p. 254.).--The "j cenovectorum cum j rota
ferro ligata" was a wheel-barrow. In the _Promptorum Parvulorum_ occurs
(p. 25.) "barowe cenovectorum."

E. G. R.

_Quotations wanted_ (Vol. vii., p. 40.).--"And if he read little, he had
need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." From Lord
Bacon.--_Bacon's Essays: Of Studies_, p. 218. 12mo., 1819.

[Greek: Omega].

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

If any of the readers of Mr. Hudson Turner's volume on Domestic
Architecture have been under the apprehension that the death of that
able antiquary would necessarily lead, if not to the abandonment of that
work, to its being completed in a more imperfect manner than Mr. Turner
would have completed it, we can assure them that such apprehension is
entirely groundless. We have now before us the second part, entitled
_Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England from Edward I. to
Richard II., with Notices of Foreign Examples, and numerous
Illustrations of existing Remains from original Drawings. By the Editor
of the Glossary of Architecture._ The editing of the work is indeed most
creditable to Mr. Parker, who, though he modestly confesses that if he
had not known that he could safely calculate upon much valuable
assistance from others more competent than himself, he would never have
ventured to undertake it at all, had already given proof of his f