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MINOR NOTES.

_Numerals._--For the old Indian forms, see Prinsep's _Journal Asiatic
Soc. Bengal_, 1838, p. 348. The prospectus of _Brugsh, Numerorum apud
Egyptios Demoticorum Doctrina_, Berlin, promises to give from papyri and
inscriptions not only the figures, but the forms of operation. Probably
the system assumed its present form by the meeting of the Indian and
Egyptian traders at some emporium near the mouth of the Indus. Peacock
seems to give undue weight to the fact, that the Tibetans have a copious
nomenclature for high numbers: their arithmetic, doubtless, came with
their alphabet, and the Buddhist legends from India.

F.Q.


_Junnius and Sir Philip Francis._--A few years ago, an aged intelligent
person named Garner was living at Belgrave, near Leicester. I have heard
him say that, when he was a farm bailiff to Lord Thanet, at Sevenoaks,
in Kent, Sir Philip Francis was a frequent visitor there, and had a
private room set apart for literary occupation. On one occasion, when he
(Mr. Garner) was riding over the farm with Sir Philip Francis, the
former alluded to one of the replies to Junius, by a clergyman who had
been the subject of the "Great Unknown's" anonymous attacks, adding,
"They say, Sir Philip, you are Junius." Sir Philip did not deny that he
was the man, but simply smiled at the remark. This, and other
circumstances coupled with the fact of Sir Philip's frequent visits to
the house of so noted a politician as Lord Thanet, rendered Mr. Garner a
firm believer in the identity of Sir Philip and Junius to the end of his