2 AUGUST 1884, Page 20

• [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?']

SIB,—The late Colonel Chester, to whom all present and future genealogists will be for ever indebted, gave me" the following epitaph, and I much doubt if it has ever had the honour of being in print :—

"Here lies old Jones, Who all his life collected bones, Till death, that grim and bony spectre,

That all-amassing bone collector, Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy, That here he lies, all bond fide."

—I am, Sir, &c., EVERARD GREEN, F.S.A.

Reform Club, S. W., luly 28th.