July 14. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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a "Welshman. And it was so filled in the time 

 of Queen Elizabeth, when the celebrated Lewys 

 Dwnn made his heraldic visitations in Wales (long 

 before the existence of the Heralds' College) ; 

 which visitations have to a great extent, though 

 not wholly, been collected and edited by the late 

 learned genealogist Sir Samuel R. Meyrick, and 

 published in two quarto volumes by the Welsh 

 MSS. Society. These volumes contain also, a 

 fac-simile of a drawing, in the British Museum, of 

 the banner, containing the arms of Wales (four 

 lions passant counterchanged), which was borne at 

 the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, and which has 

 been most unaccountably omitted on state occa- 

 sions of late years. The Eed Dragon of Wales is 

 depicted in Holbein's famous picture of the meet- 

 ing of Henry VIII. and Francis I. (" Le Champ 

 de drap d'Or"), belonging to the royal collection 

 in Windsor Castle, of which also there are en- 

 gravings ; where the Dragon of Wales appears 

 flying over the head of the Tudor monarch, and is 

 also depicted on every flag which marks the quar- 

 ter of the British host. The Red Dragon may 

 also be seen in Henry VII.'s Chapel in West- 

 minster Abbey, as the companion supporter to the 

 lion of England ; which it was, until supplanted 

 by the unicorn of Scotland, brought in by James I. 

 The field of the banner of the Red Dragon is o-reen 

 and white : hence the royal colours and livery of 

 the Tudors was green and white. And when 

 Princess Margaret, daughter of Henry VII., 

 espoused James of Scotland, it is recorded that 

 the royal liveries of the servants who accompanied 

 her were green and white ; which is also the colour 

 of the leek, the national emblem of Wales. It is 

 a matter worth inquiry, what the undercurrent 

 could be that was strong enough, not only to sup- 

 plant the Cambrian dragon, without the aid of 

 which the Stuarts could never have reigned over 

 England and Wales; but which banished from 

 the royal shield the arms of the country throu<Th 

 whose princess the King of Scotland became heir 

 to the throne of the Tudors ? In the Heralds' 

 College may be now seen a drawing of Queen 

 Elizabeth's seal, where the lions of Wales held 

 their proper place ; and it would be but historical 

 justice to restore them to their own place. G. G. 



PHOTOGBAPHIC COERESPONDENCB. 



Mr. Lyte's Process (continued from p. 16.). — The 

 plate then being exposed in the camera for the same time 

 as IS usually given in the ordinary process, is to be 

 taken into a dark room to be developed ; and the first part 

 ot this operation consists in disengaging from the plate all 

 the syrup by long soaking in a weak nitrate bath of about 

 5 to 10 grains of nitrate to the pint of distilled water 

 (cold, not hot). This bath should be frequently renewed 

 and the infinitesimal quantity of silver therein contained 

 may be taken out by the addition of common salt, f See 



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remarks at the end, the treatment of residues, &c.) It 

 should lie in this bath not less than four hours, being 

 constantly moved about, and taken in and out of the 

 bath ; or if the horizontal bath before described be used, 

 it is to be frequently tilted up and down to well wash the 

 surface of the plate. Here the three processes again unite 

 in one : for the first case, with ordinary collodion, the plate 

 is best developed at once on leaving the camera, by the 

 instantaneous process likewise, though if the honey be 

 not of the very best quality it is possible that the use of 

 the weak washing bath of 10 grains to the ounce may be 

 beneficial in removing the syrup before developing. Next 

 the glucosed plate, on coming from this last bath, is also 

 fit to be developed. The plate is now to be placed on a 

 levelling-stand, and there is to be poured over it the 

 following mixture : Pyrogallic acid, 2 grains; water, 

 1 ounce ; acetic acid (glacial), 40 minims. Pour enough 

 of this on the plate to well cover it all over (do not be 

 sparing of it), and then keep moving the plate by lifting 

 alternately each corner of it till the image is well up. In 

 the case of the instantaneous and ordinary processes, 

 should the exposure, &c. have been well conducted be- 

 forehand, the first quantity poured on will bring the ne- 

 gative up to the correct intensity ; but in the case of the 

 preservative process the pictuie requires to be darkened, 

 as, although the whole details are apparent, they are not 

 dark enough through the want of a sufficiency of nitrate 

 of silver being present. A similar effect is produced by 

 over exposure, which seems to produce the same effect 

 practically as too little exposure, and produces a negative 

 which is red and transparent in the parts which should 

 be opaque. When this is the case, pour off the first por- 

 tion of developing liquid, and having put an equal portion 

 into a glass, add to it about 10 drops of a solution of ni- 

 trate of silver of 10 per cent., and treat the negative with 

 this, with the same precautions before described. This 

 will be found immediately to dai-ken all the dark parts of 

 the picture, and to convert what might before have been 

 styled a bad negative into a fine and intense one. The 

 picture is now to be washed under a tap of water, or a 

 stream of water to be poured on it, the plate being held 

 in a slanting position to the stream ; the developing li- 

 quid is thus removed. The negative may now be dried 

 and kept till we wish to fix it, which process consists in 

 the taking out from its surface the iodide and bromide of 

 silver which the light has not affected, and which being 

 yellow, while that reduced by the photographic agency 

 is black, we are sure to know when this is clone, by the 

 removal of all the yellow colour from the negative. To 

 do this, take 1 pint of water, and in it dissolve 100 grains 

 of cyanide of potassium (commercial), and add 10 grains 

 of iodide of silver and 5 of nitrate. This is to be poured 

 on to the negative, to remove the iodide of silver as I 

 before said ; and when the operation is terminated, the 

 liquid is to be returned into the bottle, as it rather im- 

 proves than spoils by use ; and when once made, all we 

 have to do is to keep the bottle always full, by adding 

 water, in which is dissolved a proportionate quantity of 

 cyanide of potassium. The removal of the iodide may be 

 known by the clearing up of the picture and the disap- 

 pearance of the yellow colour, which latter will be more 

 easily seen on turning over the plate and looking at the 

 back of it, when the undissolved iodide will be perceived 

 as primrose-coloured spots. I may add that, for the con- 

 venience of the operator in enabling him to see this more 

 plainly, that this part of the process is as well conducted 

 in full daylight, as the plate is no longer sensitive. The 

 plate is now at once to be subjected to a stream of water, 

 as before, so as to completely remove all the cyanide, and 

 when considered sufficiently washed, to be stood up on 

 one corner to dry ; when dry it may be varnished. The 



