Abstract
DR. R. T. GUNTHER has described (Archœologia, vol. 76, p. 273) scientific instruments belonging to the University of St. Andrews which were exhibited in the Lewis Evans Collection at the Oxford meeting of the British Association. The St. Andrews instruments include the two-foot astrolabe by Humphrey Cole, dated 1575, “the finest extant Elizabethan scientific instrument” ; an armillary sphere, also by Cole, 1582 ; an old Dutch or Flemish circumferentor ; and a sea-astrolabe, or mariner's astrolabe, with one quadrant divided diagonally, inscribed “Elias Allen Fecit 1616.”
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