Dec. 8. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



457 



by a couple of stout leather straps buckled round 

 the whole. 



The papers should be changed, and dry ones 

 substituted, every second or third day, as long as 

 may be necessary. The specimens should then 

 be fastened by strips of gummed paper to light 

 cartridge paper, and the name of the plant, its 

 iocality, and the date when it was gathered, be 

 written in the corner. 



In order to preserve sea-weeds, it is necessary 

 first to rince them well in fresh water, to remove 

 all the salts. The coarser sorts may then be dried 

 in the same manner as has already been directed ; 

 but the more delicate ones require different man- 

 agement. After having been well washed and 

 freed from impurities, they must be floated out in 

 a soup-plate or shallow tray of water, upon the 

 paper on which it is intended the specimen shall 

 remain. A needle or pin, and a light hand are 

 sometimes necessary to separate tlie minute 

 branches. The paper with the weed on it is then 

 to be removed carefully from the water, and the 

 whole placed between leaves of Bentall's paper, to 

 be pressed as before directed. E. H. V. 



Bayswater. 



ITALIAN NEW TESTAMENT. 



(Vol. xii., p. 367.) 

 Before closing your pages to the subject of Italian 

 versions of the New Testament, it might be well 

 to go a little farther into the subject, and to 

 ascertain all we can about it. Perhaps Mr. Offok 

 would kindly add to his reply what I cannot 

 gather from it, viz. the authors of the two versions, 

 if they differ, printed at Geneva and Lyons in 

 1555 ? As far as I understand the statements of 

 Dr. M'Crie (Itefo7-mation in Italy, pp. 52. 56. 406 ), 

 besides the Bible of Malermi, or Malerbl, pub- 

 lished at Venice in 1471, to which Mk. Offob 

 refers, there were early versions, by Brucioli, 

 Venice, 1530 ; A.n twerp, 1538 ; Lyons, 1553 ; &c. ; 

 by Massimo Teofilo, Lyons, 1551 ; by Paschala, 

 Lyons or Geneva, 1555 ; and an anonymous 

 translation published at Lyons in 1558. Of the 

 latter I possess a copy. It Is a thick 12mo., with 

 the following title : 



" II Nnovo Testamento di Jesu Christo nostro Signore, 

 Latino et volgare, diligentamenti tradotto dal testo 

 Greco, et conferito con molte altre traduttioni volgari et 

 Latine, le traduttioni corrispodenti 1' una a 1' altra, et 

 partite per veisetti. In Lione, Apresso Guillel. Rouillio. 

 af.i>. Lviii." 



The Latin differs from all the nine versions, 

 specimens of which are given in The Bible of 

 every Land; and though there can be no doubt, 

 from internal evidence, but that the translator was 

 a Protestant, a table is inserted for finding the 

 fipisties and Gospels for Sundays and Festivals, 

 according to the custom of the Church of Rome. 



No. 319.] 



Has modern research thrown any light upon its 

 authorship ? C. W. Bingham. 



[Mb. Offoe has kindly favoured us with the following 

 reply : — 



" In answer to the inquirj' of Mr. Bingham, relative to 

 the Latin translation which accompanies the Italian N"ew 

 Testament published ' In Lione, Apresso Guillel. Rouillio, 

 M.i). LViii.,' it is that by Erasmus, and the Italian is 

 translated from it. An account of this curious volume is 

 in Townley's Biblical Literature, vol. iil. p. 17. Me. Bing- 

 ham describes his copy as a thick 12mo. ; Mr. Townley 

 calls it 16mo. My copy has eight leaves to every signa- 

 ture. It is what a printer would call a half-sheet pot 

 8vo. The type occupies two and a half by four inches. 

 My copy was bound in two volumes, of which I possess 

 only the second. It has the table of Epistles and Gospels, 

 ' Secondo la consuetudine della Chiesa Romana.' This is 

 no proof that the translator or publisher was of the 

 Romish Church, such tables being of frequent occurrence 

 in the editions of the New Testament by the Reformers. 

 The volume has in addition, 'Sessanta Salmi di David,' 

 with the notes for singing, prefaced by ' A Tutti I Chris- 

 tiani et Amatori de la Parola di Dio.' After these psalms 

 follow the prayers and offices of the Reformed Church, 

 with a Catechism, ' Quale h il principal fine de la vita de 

 I'huomo?' ending with the 'Confessione di fede di co- 

 mun accordo fatta de le chiese che sono disperse ne la 

 Francia, e si astengono da le idolatrie Papistiche.' Very 

 full proof that it was not published by the Roman Catho- 

 lics. It is a source of regret that no good history of these 

 interesting books has been given to the public. — George 

 Offor."] 



PHOTOGRAPHIC COERESPONDBNCB. 



Single Stereoscopic Pictures (Yol. xii., p. 412.). — In 

 the discussion upon this subject, Mr. C._M. Ingleby 

 takes exception to some expressions as ambiguous and in- 

 accurate that have been used by me. On reconsidering 

 them, my judgment admits a part of the allegation, as 

 far as language goes ; the facts I endeavoured to point out 

 were probably described in phraseology of too loose a 

 description, and I am therefore justly open to the rebuke 

 I have received. 



" An observer " is certainly not a mathematical point : 

 by this phrase I meant the centre of an observer's eye. 



All parts of a plane surface are not, and can never 

 he, equally distant from any centre — but the assertion 

 made by me on this point was stated to be approximately 

 true onl -. Even this is probably too strong a term to 

 apply ti. '.he case under consideration — the mental idea 

 uppermost at the time being, the corresponding condition 

 of the plate in the camera with reference to the focus of 

 the lens. Now, absolutely, a small " annulus " only of the 

 plate is in focus at once, the union of all the focal points 

 forming a portion of the periphery of a sphere, or other 

 curved solid; yet a small portion of such periphery de- 

 viates from the plane to such an extent only as admits of 

 our considering it to be all " in focus," and using it ac- 

 cordingly in taking a photograph. Hence, by analogy, 

 I considered myself justified in the 'statement " that the 

 axes of both ayes would converge uniformly if brought 

 to bear upon any part of the picture " as accurate enough 

 for the illustration. If I have used too great a latitude of 

 expression in this case, it was from an error in judgment 

 upon the admissibility of such illustration, not from any 

 absence of knowledge of the facts. I am satisfied that 

 Mr. Ingleby agrees with me in substance, but he is 



