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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 96., Oct. 31. '57. 



mind the usual mutation of letters we are able to 

 identify with bite, the h&t. Ji(n)do, Jidi. 



As the initial letter of the words under con- 

 sideration fluctuates between b and p, the claim of 

 Lat. puture (to lop branches) to be considered one 

 of the family, is pretty clear ; as also its identity 

 with the Ger. putzen (to snuif a candle). Nor 

 can there be much hesitation in associating Eng. 

 pot, pottle, Gr. Trt^os. 



Grimm brings the adjective hutt or bott, stupid, 

 blunt, from the Gothic bauths, deaf. But may not 

 the notion of " struck," " maimed," lie at the 

 foundation of the signification of " deaf" in bauths 

 itself, — as Gr. kox^os is allied to kotttw, and TV(p\os 

 to Tvirrai ? A striking analogy to this relation is 

 presented in the Ger. stumm, dumb ; stummel, a 

 stump ; stummeln, to mutilate. The root stemmen, 

 means to press, stamp, beat, cut, lop ; stemm-eisen 

 is a chisel. A. F. 



Edinburgh. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORBE8PONDENCE. 



Long's Dry Collodion Process. — We are afraid it sayS 

 as much in favour of Mr. Long's success, as it tells against 

 our doing justice to it, that we should not have called at- 

 tention to his able little volume on The Dry Collodion Pro- 

 cess until that treatise has reached a second edition. It 

 says also much for the excellence of the process described, 

 that in this second edition Mr. Long is enabled to an- 

 nounce that, " after some months' practical working, it 

 has not been found necessary to make any practical alter- 

 ation in the process." This of course is most satisfactory; 

 and as the process possesses many obvious advantages, 

 one can hardly be surprised to hear that.it is daily grow- 

 ing in favour with those wliose opinions possess weight 

 in matters photographic. 



Chapuis' Reflecting Stereoscopes. — Every one who has 

 looked through a stereoscope at an opaque stereograph 

 must have experienced the difficulty of getting the pic- 

 ture in a proper light. By an application of his Patent 

 Reflectors to the Stereoscope, M. Chapuis' has entirely 

 surmounted this objection, and we must say we never saw 

 the principle of the stereoscope so nicely developed as in 

 one of M. Chapuis' Patent Reflecting Stereoscopes which 

 we have just had an opportunity of trying. 



Stereoscopic Book Illustrations Mr. C. Piazzi Smith's 



forthcoming account of his Astronomical Expedition to the 

 Peak of Tenerilfe is to be illustrated by twenty double 

 vignette photo-stereographs. This is such an important 

 step in the application of photography to book illustra- 

 tion that we must quote the publisher's remarks upon the 

 subject. 



"The publisher, anxious as the author to put all the 

 actual facts of nature in the elevated regions that were 

 visited as completely as possible before the public, has 

 been earnestly at work for some time past, and has now 

 succeeded in maturing plans for iliustrating the letter- 

 press with a series of photo-stereographs, which will be 

 found to be neither more nor less than veritable reproduc- 

 tions of the scenes theniselves. 



" This method of book -illustration never having been 

 attempted before, may excuse a word on this part of the 

 subject By its necessary faithfulness, a photograph of 

 any sort must keep a salutary check on the pencil or long- 



bow of the traveller; but it is not perfect; it may be 

 tampered with, and may sufier from accidental faults of 

 the material. These, which might sometimes produce a 

 great alteration of meaning in important parts of a view, 

 may, however, be eliminated, when, as here, we have two 

 distinct pictures of each object. 



" Correctness is thus ensured ; and then if we wish to 

 enjoy the efi^ects either of solidity or of distance, effects 

 which are the cynosures of all the great painters, we have 

 only to combine the two photographs stereoscopically, and 

 those bewitching qualities are produced. Stereographs 

 have not hitherto been bound up, as plates, in a volume; 

 yet that will be found a most convenient way of keephig 

 them, not incompatible with the use of the ordinary ste- 

 reoscope, provided it is glazed kt the base with clear in 

 place of ground glass, and well adapted for a new form of 

 the instrument, which the publisher anticipates being 

 able to produce at a very moderate cost, under the name 

 of the ' Book Stereoscope.' 



" The plates, though packed up between the flat boards 

 of a book, will appear on examination to have all the 

 solidity, and all the appearance of distance, that the spec- 

 tator could have acquired from viewing the scenes them- 

 selves." 



Sutton's Treatise on the Positive Collodion Process. — 

 We have for some time intended to call the attention of 

 our photographic friends to this useful little volume, in 

 which such of them as admire Collodion Positives, and 

 they certainly are among the most beautiful products of 

 Photography, will find instructions for producing them as 

 minute and distinct as they can well desire. 



Time of Residence of Widows in Parsonage 

 Houses (2°'' S. iv. 308.) — On this point I am glad 

 to be enabled to give your correspondent Henri 

 information, because the real state of the case ap- 

 pears to be little understood, and cannot be too 

 generally known. By the Act 1 & 2 Victoria, 

 cap. 106. sect. 36., which I imagine to have been 

 one of the late Bishop of London's, the widow of 

 a deceased incumbent has the right of retaining 

 the use of the house, curtilage, and garden^ for 

 two months after her husband's death, provided 

 he shall have been residing there at the time of 

 his decease. Certainly this is something ; but with 

 how niggardly a hand is the kindness doled out! 

 For observe, if there be a dozen fatherless chil- 

 dren, or, to put the case more strongly, as many 

 orphans, or a sick and aged mother, sister, or re- 

 lative, they have no claim at all. Moreover, if 

 there come a rate, who is to pay it ? This is not 

 provided for. Such is modern legislation ! Those 

 benighted people who lived before us would have 

 done the thing diflferently, and more completely. 



OUTtS. 



Hans Holbein, Luke Hornebolte, and Katherine 

 Maijnor (2"* S. iv. 206. 313.) - I can only add 

 negative information on the subject of Holbein : 

 his name does not occur on any of the patent 

 rolls of Henry VIII. down to the 33rd year. But 

 if Me. Nichols is at all interested in the other 



