It looks like this is an online subscription service, set up the way many libraries are going now. Perhaps you can find it in libraries here in the U.S. It's available online here in Texas through the state universities; anyone who goes to the school and uses a computer on campus should be able to view the early issues. State universities are funded with tax dollars, so they have a special obligation to keep libraries and resources avaliable to the public (with some restrictions depending on licensing and availability).
Sometimes understanding how the bibliographers have catalogued it is difficult; I can't help you much, I'm a writer, not a librarian:
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TITLE: Notes and queries. PUBLISHED: London (etc.) Oxford University Press (etc.) DESCRIPTION: v. ill., ports. 22 cm. INTERNET: Academic Search Premier includes some full-text articles from 09/01/2000 to 1 year ago. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?db=aph&bquery=is+00293970&scope=site Expanded Academic ASAP includes some full-text articles from 03/01/1993 to 12/01/1998. http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc3%5fEAIM%5F0%5F%5Fjn+%22Notes+and+Queries%22 NUMBERING: v. 1- Nov. 1849- NOTES: "For readers and writers, collectors and librarians," (varies)
Indexes: Ser. 1-12, Nov. 1849-June 1923 (an index for each ser.) 12 v.; Vols. (145)-156, July 1923-June 1929. 1 v.; Vols. 157-168, July 1929-June 1935. 1 v.
Vols. 1-(145), Nov. 1849-1923, called ser. (1)-13 (ser. 1-12 in 12 v. each, ser. 13 in 1 v.)