Notes and Queries (originally subtitled "a medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc") is a correspondence magazine where scholars and interested amateurs exchange miscellaneous knowledge. It was first published in 1849 as a weekly periodical edited by William John Thoms.
The format consisted of "Notes", miscellaneous thoughts from correspondents that they and the editors considered might be of interest to the readership, and "Queries" (and responses to queries), which formed the bulk of the publication. The magazine has been likened to a (moderated) Internet newsgroup, with which the correspondence shared many features.
Its motto, When found, make a note of, is a catchphrase of a character in Dickens' Dombey and Son.
Notes and Queries has given its name to a number of similar columns and publications; for instance there is a regular feature under the similar title Notes & Queries in The Guardian newspaper.
External links
N&Q at Oxford University Press (http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/)
The Bodleian Internet Library of Early Journals (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/) has scans of early numbers. (As of 2004, Project Gutenberg is converting these into text.)
Article on N&Q (http://www.victorianresearch.org/nandq.html) from Victoria Research Web
Notes and Queries in The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/)
Notes and Queries (originally subtitled "a medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc") is a London-based, quarterly publication, part academic journal, part correspondence magazine, in which scholars and interested amateurs can exchange knowledge on literature and history.
Notes and Queries was first published in 1849 as a weekly periodical edited by William John Thoms.
Notes and Queries has given its name to a number of similar columns and publications; for instance there is a regular feature under the same title Notes and Queries in The Guardian newspaper.
The choice mentioned in the note either to keep the place auxiliaries at country level or to use more detailed subdivisions is one which would normally be taken for the system as a whole, and need not be spelt out at individual notations.
This query, although it seems to be in favour of cancelling (3) and its subdivisions, gives examples which lead one to the opposite view - that the cancellation of (3) would not solve the difficulties of denoting certain kinds of historical entity.
The MRF entry for (3) does have a note about the late 5th century, but this note is in conflict with the subdivisions of (3) in two ways.
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