POINTS FROM LETTERS ' CEISIUS.
Your contributor, Mr. BroWn, in his delightful article " In Frozen Holland," states, " I suspect these foreign tempera- tures. They are not based on honest Centigrade or Fahrenheit like ours but on something called Celsius." When the scientist Celsius developed his thermometer he marked the scale into one hundred Parts; between the freezing point of water' at zero, and the boiling point of water at one hundred, and the Celsius scale has gradually become to be known as the Centigrade scale, and the only three scales known are Fahren- heit; Reatunur, and Centigrade, or Celsius, the two latter meaning one and the same thing.—ERNEar R. CANNING; 133- 137 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham.
. DIGGING OUT FOXES.
. I believe a year or so ago your paper endeavoured to procure the opinion of masters of foxhounds on the'question of digging out foxes. Although several masters gave their views on subject, a big majority remained silent. I venture to think that, from a humane point of view, the public would be interested to know whether most hunts do practise digging out foxes or not. Perhaps it would be possible to reopen the question in your widely read and much appreciated- paper.— L. F. C. , THE WORKS OF DONNE.
I do not pretend to literary knowledge, but on reading the passage referred to from Donne, it has always occurred to me that he was not .only punning on his own name but also on that of his wife, Anne More She . appears to have had an exceptional. influence over him, tide his strange vision in France.—DoaccrnrA RUGGi.ES BiusE,'5s,Biekenhall-MansiOns,
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