son to the Arctic shores, which suggests
the above Query, also gives rise to another. Did any of your readers ever
amuse themselves, as children, by performing the dance known as _kutchin
kutchu_-ing; which consists in jumping about with the legs bent in a
sitting posture? If so, have they not been struck with a philological
mania, on seeing his picture of the Kutchin-Kutcha Indians dancing; in
which the principal performer is actually figuring in the midst of the wild
circle in the way described. Is not the nursery term something more than a
mere coincidence?

SELEUCUS.

_Cornwalls of London._--Perhaps some reader of "N. & Q." may be able to
inform me what were the arms, crest, and motto of the Cornwalls of London?
One of the family, John Cornwall, was a Director of the Bank of England in
1769.

F. C.

Beverley.

_Flasks for Wine-bottles._--When, and under what circumstances, did the
common use of flasks in this country, for holding wine, go out? Hogarth
died in 1764, and in none of his pictures, I believe, is the wine-bottle,
in its present shape, to be seen. On the other hand, I have never found any
person able to remember the use of flasks, or indeed any other than the
wine-bottle in its present shape. The change must have been rapidly
effected between 1760 and 1790. Of course I am aware that certain wines,
Greek, I believe, are still imported in flasks.

HENRY T. RILEY.

_Froxhalmi, Prolectricus, Phytacus, Tuleus, Candos, Gracianus, and Tounu or
Tonnu._--Can any of your correspondents suggest the meaning of these words,
or either them? They are not in the recent Paris edition of Ducange.

HENRY T. RILEY.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Postmaster at Merton College._--Can you tell me whether there is any known
derivation for the term "Postmaster," as applied to part of the members on
the Foundation of Merton College, Oxford? Also, What connexion there is
between this word and the Latin for it, which is seen on the college plate,
in the words "In usum Portionistarum?"

J. G. T.

Ch. Ch.

[It seems probable that these postmasters formerly occupied one of the
postern gates of the college. Hence we find Anthony a Wood, in his
Life, August 1, 1635, says, "A fine of 30_li._ was set by the warden
and fellowes of Merton College. When his father renewed his lease of
the old stone-house, wherein his son A. Wood was borne (called
antiently P