Sept. 1. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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having run a course, perishetl in the year 1578-9 

 on the coast of Barbary ; whereas the other is 

 reported l)y Camden to have survived to 1620, 

 and then died mad. 



Thomas Stukely was an English adventurer, 

 embarked in the celebrated expedition of " James 

 Giraldyn, of Desmond," under the auspices of the 

 Pope and Spanish King, for the invasion of Ire- 

 land. This however was after he had failed in a 

 "Florida bubble," or fanciful expedition to erect 

 a principality in the New World, whence he 

 told Queen Elizabeth that he would " write to 

 her in the style of princes," as his "Dear Sister." 



Gotten as far as Lisbon on his expedition to- 

 wards Ireland, he was induced to join Sebastian 

 in the invasion of Barbary, on a promise that 

 when he had subdued the Moors, he would ac- 

 company him in his Irish crusade. They both 

 perished at Al-caser in 1578; and the expedi- 

 tion, memorable in Irish annals, proceeded without 

 Stukely, and landed at Scoreswick Harbour, in 

 Kerry, in 1579. 



The Pope, in the exercise of his right (?) to 

 create titles and dignities, created Stukely Earl of 

 Wexford and Marquis of Leinster before starting. 



O'Sullivan, an Irish historian (not the most 

 veracious in the world, however,) suggests that 

 Stukely was a bastard son of Henry VIII. The 

 passage in which he mentions him runs thus : 



" Komae tunc temporis erat .... Thomas Stuclius 

 qui ab aliis Henrici VIIL, Regis Anglise, filius gnothus ab 

 aliis equite Anglo patre, et Ibema matre genitus, ab aliis 

 omnino Iberiius perhibetur." 



Old Fuller, however, is probably more correct 

 when he writes him down — 



" A younger brother of an ancient, wealthy, and wor- 

 shipful family nigh Ilfracombe, in Devon ; being one of 

 good parts, but valued the less by others because over- 

 prized by himself." 



A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



" THte ANNUAL BEGISTEH." 



(Vol. xii., pp. 62. 93.) 



^ L., who inquires about the authors of the 

 historical parts of that periodical, may be glad to 

 be informed that the "gentleman named King" 

 was Dr. Walker King, afterwards Bishop of 

 Rochester. I know that the historical portion of 

 two or three years, perhaps more, was written by 

 Dr. Richard Laurence, then vicar of Coleshill, 

 Berks, afterwards Archbishop of Cashel ; brother 

 of Dr. French Laurence, the eminent civilian and 

 intimate friend of Burke. Dr. French Laurence 

 had engaged to carry on the work, when Mr. King 

 gave it up : but the unceasing pressure of his 

 professional business soon compelled him to desist 

 from the task, which was then undertaken by his 

 No. 305.] 



brother. I think that Dr. Richard Laurence 

 wrote for the years 1791, 1792, and 1793 ; but, at 

 all events, it was between 1790 and the death of 

 Edmund Burke in 1797. 



Perhaps I ought to have inserted these papers 

 (with some others) in the list of the Archbishop's 

 writings given in my Fasti Ecclesim Hibernice; 

 but the truth is, that I did not then, nor do I now, 

 know exactly the amount of his contributions to 

 the Annual Register, and other periodical publi- 

 cations. Henby Cotton. 



Thurles, Ireland. 



PHOTOGBAPHIC COBBESPONDENCB. 



Novel Method of taking Stereoscopes. — In making some 

 recent experiments I have hit upon quite a novel method 

 of taking stereoscopic pictures, which (with the alterations 

 to be afterwards suggested by those experienced in optics) 

 will, I think, prove of great interest to photographers. 



Hitherto, I believe, all stereoscopic views have been in 

 pairs, taken at different angles, and afterwards viewed 

 through lenses, or by means of the reflecting instrument 

 of Prof. Wheatstone. With the method now about to be 

 described I think that, after some improvements have 

 been made in the instrument, we shall be enabled to ob- 

 tain at once, with the camera, single pictures which wiU 

 possess all the magic effects of double vision. The expe- 

 riment being hitherto merely a rough one, and per- 

 formed with an ordinary camera and lens, must neces- 

 sarily be imperfect in its works ; still I have every belief 

 that when a lens is made specially for the purpose, the 

 suggestions can be carried out with perfect success. The 

 method is exceedingly simple, and the experiment may 

 easily be performed with an ordinary camera and lens. 

 My lens (an ordinary three-inch landscape one by Ross) 

 has as usual two or more diaphragms in the tube. These 

 diaphragms I removed entirely, and substituted in their 

 place a temporary one of thin wood, having two small 

 apertures, one at each side and about two inches and a 

 half apart. On screwing the tube to the camera the 

 picture represented on the screen will be confused and 

 indistinct, owing to the various objects composing the 

 view being double in all their parts. On sliding the tube 

 backwards and forwards the double lines approach or re- 

 cede from one another as the case may be; when the 

 focus is obtained, however, the said pictures coincide, and 

 the view is stereoscopic to a wonderful extent. With a 

 lens constructed for ordinary purposes the effect is not so 

 satisfactory as might be desired ; but, as before stated, I 

 have little'doubt but that a properly- constructed one will 

 soon be made for the purpose. 



I should imagine the effect would be much heightened 

 if two lenses of the same focal length were placed at such 

 a distance apart, so as to produce to some extent an 

 exaggeration similar to that which is found necessary m 

 taking ordinary views for the stereoscope, but so arranged 

 that the two pictures should coincide on the screen. 



These hints are thrown out with the wish that they 

 may attract the attention of some practical optician who 

 will give the matter a fair trial ; and with this view I beg 

 you will give them an early insertion in your journal. 



Geokge Norman. 



Hull. 



Production of the Natural Colours : M. Testud de Beau- 

 rigard's Process. — At the meeting of the Societe Fran- 

 9aise de Photographie on the 26th of July, M. Durieu 



