Vixen - sorry I didn't see your earlier post and realise that I'd missed out half of the table (You can thank Big Mick's query for making me look back here). The table is the one embossed on the back of my small electronic metronome and seems reasonable enough, though of course you do find composers with different ideas, an Italian tempo indication with a metronome marking quite different from the ones listed above. Personally I always like to see a metronome mark on a piece, though you can't always have that. (There are also some pieces where I ignore it anyway, when a different tempo seems more suitable for the piece than the one indicated!).

Mick