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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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At Woburn : 



2. " Johannes Lenglon, Episcopus Lincoln : Ave Maria, 

 gratice plena, Dominus tecum." 



Mackenzie WalcotTj M.A. 



Bells in the Tower of the Chapel at St. MichaeVs 

 Mount, Cornwall. — The following is a copy of the 

 inscriptions, and the sizes of the bells : 



No. 1. 3 feet diameter ; 



" Soli, Deo, deuter Gloria. 1640. J. P." 



No. 2. 2 feet 9 inches diameter : 



" Filius est Deus. 



^ Raphael >i< Sancta Margareta. Ora pro nobis. 

 Ordo Archangelorum." 



No. 3. 2 feet 6 inches diameter : 



" Spiritus Sanctus est Deus. 



iji Gabriel >J< Sancto Pauli. Ora pro nobis. 

 Ordo Virtutum. 

 Maria." 



No. 4. 2 feet 3^ inches diameter : 



" Charles and John Rudhall Fecit 1784." 



No. 5. 2 feet 2 inches diameter : 



" Come away, make no delay." 



No. 6. 2 feet diameter : 



« Ordo Potestatum." 



Nos. 2, 3, and 6, are of the same date, the latter 

 part of the fourteenth century. 



Nos. 1, 4, and 5, are probably recasts of older 

 bells, which made up the set of six. 



Can any of your readers furnish inscriptions for 

 the last-mentioned bells, which would be in har- 

 mony with the other three bells, viz. No. 2, 3, 

 and 6. ? Jas. P. St. Aubyn. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC COBBESPONDENCB. 



Gutta-percha Baths. — I send you a gutta-percha bath 

 similar to the one mentioned by Mr. Maxwell Lyte, in 

 Vol. xi., p. 471. 



The first bath that I invented and made, about two 

 years ago, was simply an open tray, with one of its ends 

 formed into a large cell, to receive the fluid contents 

 when the opposite end was raised until the tray stood 

 vertically upon the cell. The plate was laid upon the 

 bottom of the tray, face upward, and prevented from slip- 

 ping into the cell, when the bath was raised, bv two studs 

 cemented on the bottom. This is exactly Mk. Lyte's 

 plan. 



The bath accompanying this Note I made about eigh- 

 teen months ago, and designed it for flooding the plate, 

 while laid face downward. It appears to have several 

 advantages over the first: it works with greater cer- 

 tainty, covering the whole plate by the use of a much 

 smaller quantity of fluid; and the plate is less liable to 

 be injured by dust or deposit in the solutions. A narrow 

 rim is fastened along two sides of the trav to support the 

 plate about one-eighth of an inch from the bottom, and 

 leave room for the fluid to pass beneath it. Now stand 

 the tray vertically on the bottom of the cell, and you will 



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find the top of the cell is closed, except an opening one- 

 eighth of an inch wide, along the bottom of the tray, 

 extending the whole width between the two side rims. 

 When tried in this state the fluid comes out in gushes ; on 

 depressing the tray, every time a bubble of air squeezes 

 itself under the cover; but by boring a small hole in the 

 middle of the top, the flow is made beautifully equable, 

 running evenly under the plate, and driving before it any 

 air-bubble or impurity. 



These baths were made for the purpose of working in- 

 side the camera ; but I abandoned them, from their lia- 

 bility to receive more dust, &c. than the vertical ones. 



I claim no merit for these simple inventions, and trouble 

 you rather to remind other claimants that when a dozen 

 men of ordinary ingenuity meet with the same difficulty, 

 it is very probable that two or three of them may, by 

 pursuing the same train of thought, overcome it by pre- 

 cisely the same means, without being chargeable with 

 pilfering from each other. Sam. Cartwright. 



Deepening Collodion Negatives. — In Vol. ix., p. 282., 

 Mr. Leachjl\n recommends the iodide of cadmium for 

 this purpose. Will you have the goodness to ask him if 

 he still recommends the same in preference to any other 

 application? and if so, of what strength the solution 

 should be? M. P. M. 



Old Collodion. — In Vol. xi., p. 390., you did me the 

 favour to insert a Note of mine on this subject, wherein I 

 stated that early this spring I added together numerous 

 samples of old collodion of last summer's make, consisting 

 of portions of almost every variety, in the whole amount- 

 ing to nearly fourteen ounces, and that this mixture had. 

 proved, in my hands, the best collodion I ever used, al- 

 though many, or in fact the greatest number, of the sam- 

 ples individually were worthless. 



My object in communicating this Note is to confirm the 

 former assertion, as I find the same of the most excellent 

 quality, as I have proved by many hundred examples 

 since March last. I would therefore recommend your 

 friends never to throw away their old collodion. 



M. P. M. 



Richard Kent, Esq. (Vol. xii., p. 46.). — From 

 some old deeds lately in my hands, I extracted a 

 few notes which may be useful to J. K. In 1684, 

 the mortgage of a farm between Chippenham and 

 Corsham, in co. Wilts, was assigned to Sir Robert 

 Dillington, Bart., of Knighton ; Richard Kent of 

 London, and Robert Rewes of London. In 1685 

 Richard Kent is described as " of Corsham, Esq." 

 He was elected M.P. for Chippenham, Aug. 25, 

 1685; when he made that borough a present of 

 the expenses incurred in obtaining a new charter 

 three years before. He seems to have been 

 knighted, and to have died before 1698 : as an in- 

 denture, dated in that year, mentions — 



" John Kent, second son of Robert Kent, late of Bos- 

 combe, CO. Wilts, and nephew to Sir Richard Kent, Knt., 

 late of Corsham : John Kent the elder, brother and heir 

 of Richard Kent, and Nicholas Fenn of St. Martin's-in-the- 

 Fields, surviving executor of Richard Kent." 

 The estate of Richard Kent had been ordered by 

 the Court of Chancery to be sold. A pedigree of 

 Kent of Boscumbe, with a few extracts of the 



