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F.R.S. and F.A.S., sometime Librarian to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and Keeper of the MSS. at Lambeth.

From Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Charm on a ring, olim penes W. Hamper, F.A.S.

From Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 by Various

Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song with Historical and Traditional Notices relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry, now first published by R. H. Cromek, F.A.S.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

F.A.S., and a Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, died on the 6th of January at Shooter's Hill, Kent, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

Label: crystals of quartz, discovered in a goblin’s gizzard by Vandyke Emson, Esquire, F.A.S.,

From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by Boucher, W.