Clapham, Jan 1. 1851.

_Difformis, Signification of._--Can any of your classical readers refer me
to a competent source of information with regard to the signification of
the word _difformis_, which is repeatedly to be met with in the writings of
Linnæus, and which I cannot find recorded in _Ducange_, _Facciolati_, or
any of our ordinary Latin dictionaries?

TYRO.

Dublin.

_Lynch Law._--What is the origin of this American phrase?

J.C.R.

_Prior's Posthumous Works._--Among the curiosities collected by the Duchess
of Portland, was a volume containing some prose treatises in MS. of the
poet Prior. Forbes, in his _Life of Beattie_ (Vol. ii. p. 160.), speaking
of this interesting volume, says:--

"Her Grace was so good as to let me read them, and I read them with great
pleasure. One of them, a dialogue between Locke and Montaigne, is all
admirable piece of ridicule on the subject of Locke's philosophy."

Have these treatises since been printed? And where now is Prior's original
MS.?

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.