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Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various
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_use_, in order to enhance the interest of the spectacle of the sidereal
heavens as seen by the naked eye. He is also particularly referred to the
_Celestial Cycle_, by Capt. Smyth, published by Parker and Co., West
Strand, in 2 vols. 8vo., price 2l. 2s.; a book full of astronomical and
mythological gossip.

G.I.C. will find books on _Astrology_ for sale at Maynard's, No. 8. Earl's
Court, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, more readily, perhaps, than any
where else in London.

ROBERT SNOW.

6. Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, Jan. 13. 1851.

_Dodo Queries_ (Vol. i., pp. 261, 262.).--MR. STRICKLAND is informed, that
in the list of Pingré's works, as given in Quérard's _France Littéraire,_
there is one with the following title:--

"Mémoire sur les Découvertes faites dans la Mer du Sud, avant les
derniers Voyages des Français autour du Monde, lu à l'Académie des
Sciences, 1766, 1767, 1778, in. 4."

I have not read Pingré's works, but if they contain any mention of
_Solitaires_, it will probably be found in the _Mémoire_ above referred to.

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia, W.I., Nov. 1850.

_Holland Land_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267. 345.; Vol. iii., p. 30).--In an ancient
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