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If any of your readers could communicate any information regarding the
author, I should feel much obliged.
RICHARD HOOPER.
University Club, Suffolk Street.
_Benj. Wheeler's Theological Lectures._--In the year 1819 was published
Vol. i. of the _Theological Lectures_ of Benjamin Wheeler, late Regius
Professor of Divinity in Oxford. In the preface, it is said--
"The first of the three volumes, in which the Lectures will be
comprised, is offered to the public as an experiment of its disposition
towards the completion of the work; the favourable entertainment of
which will determine the editor's purpose of sending the two remaining
volumes after it with all convenient expedition."
Can any of your readers inform me whether the MSS. of the two unpublished
volumes are preserved, and where they are to be found?
W.A.
_Sir Alexander Cumming._--A Nova Scotia baronet, living in 1730, of
Coulter, called by some, "King of the Cherokees." He married Elizabeth, one
of the last coheiresses of the ancient family of _Dennis_, of Pucclechurch,
co. Gloucester. Where may be found any account of his connection with the
Cherokees; also any thing of his death or descendants?
S.S.
_Cross between a Wolf and Hound._--May I call the attention of such of your
correspondents as are versed in natural history, to an account that I have
lately received from a gentleman of intelligence, education, and undoubted
veracity. I am informed by him that he has lately seen, in the south of
France, a she-wolf that had been caught at a very early age, and brought up
on very friendly terms with a kennel of hounds. The animal had come to its
maturity when my friend observed it and its good understanding with its
canine neighbours had never been interrupted. So far from it, indeed, that
the she-wolf has had and reared a litter of pups by one of the dogs, and
does duty in hunting as well as any dog of the pack. Buffon states that he
had found that an experiment continued for a considerable time, to bring
about the like result between the like animals, never showed the least
appearance of success. The circumstances which he mentions as to the
capture and habits of the she-wolf are nearly the same as I have above
described, and from the failure of the experiments, Buffon doubted the
possibility of any sexual conjunction between these kinds of animals. Some
of your correspondents may be able to say how far subsequent observation
confirms Buffon's conclusion.
T----N.
Athen�um.
_Landwade Church, and Moated Grange._--About five miles from the town of
Newmarket, the metropolis of the racing world, and from Eening, a village
in the county of Suffolk, there is a secluded hamlet called "Landwade,"
which contains a "_moated grange_," and a church to all appearances very
ancient.
The church contains several antique tombs, together with curious monumental
brasses, nearly all, I believe I may say all, to the memory of the Cotton
family; amongst whom, judging from the inscriptions, were crusaders and
knights of mighty emprize, and other worthies. There is only one grave and
gravestone in the churchyard, and that is to an old domestic servant of the
said Cotton family.
Can any of your readers or antiquaries give any information touching the
church, the ancient tombs and effigies, the Cotton family, the grange, &c.
When a boy I used to look upon the old house and the quaint little church
with a deal of awe.
It is very distressing, but I cannot find any published account of this
ancient and remarkable place and its antiquities.
JONATHAN OLDBUCK, JUN.
_Dr. Bolton, Archbishop of Cashel._--Any information respecting the family,
the arms, or descent of Doctor Theophilus Bolton, Archbishop of Cashel, in
the early part of the last century, will oblige.
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