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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 268. 



Would sugar of milk do as well as whey, which is trouble- 

 some to get clear ? 



Can you give me any receipt for using iodide and other 

 salt of iron in albumen on glass. The process with iodide 

 of potassium is very slow. A. S. S. 



Bombay. 



Preserving Sensitized Collodion Plates. — The difficulty 

 I had experienced (Vol. x., p. 411.) from unequal develop- 

 ment in large plates is easily got rid of, by allowing the 

 plate to remain quietly in the bath a good while, about 

 twenty to thirty minutes (it may indeed be left in without 

 injury any length of time), and just before removing it, 

 gently raising and lowering the plate two or three times, 

 so as to allow the diluted sjTup to flow away. The longer 

 the plate has been kept, the longer it must be soaked, as 

 the syrup adheres more to the film. A vertical bath, as 

 Mr. Shadbolt remarks, is better for this purpose ; the 

 syrup gravitating to the bottom is more easily removed ; 

 but not having one by me large enough, I had no choice 

 but a flat bath, which with a little more care answers 

 perfectly well. To iodize the plate, a flat bath has, in 

 my opinion, many advantages. The transparent speckling 

 of the plate was owing to some of the excited molecules 

 of iodide of silver having been removed from the film 

 while in the bath, and as a consequence minute holes ap- 

 peared after the plate was developed. This was easily 

 obviated by a little more care in the washing. If the bath 

 contained any dust, speckling would ensue, as Mr. Shad- 

 bolt suggests ; I had, however, carefully guarded against 

 this, and with me it could not have been the cause. It is 

 also easy to speckle any plate by washing it roughly. 



I have tried Mr. Shadboi.t's last method with 8^ x 6J 

 plates : it answers admirably, and I gladly own that I 

 prefer it to the way I had worked, the manipulation being 

 less troublesome. It is however evident, that, on many 

 occasions, it may be desirable to know how to work a 

 plate without a second bath, and I therefore hope the 

 modification of the process I have given will sometimes 

 be found useful. The skies and the blacks generally are 

 more intense than Mr. Shadbolt's, probably from using 

 a thicker syrup, and re-exciting the plate with a ten-grain 

 nitrate of silver solution before using the pyro. ; this, 

 however, is in most cases of little advantage, for the jet 

 black tone, caused by the reducing power of the small 

 amount of syrup remaining in the film, is such, as to make 

 these syruped negatives far denser than ordinary ones. 



The being able to preserve collodion plates after ex- 

 citement, if for only a week, is the greatest step photo- 

 graphy has made since the introduction of collodion in 

 1850. We have all the advantages of collodion, com- 

 bined with keeping qualities greater even than those of 

 wax-paper. The certainty of the process is, to say the 

 least, fullj' equal to that of any other, and the manipula- 

 tion infinitely less troublesome. 



For making this process known, we are all under many 

 obligations to Mr. Shadbolt. Thos. L. Mansell. 



Guernsey. 



MepItciS to :^tnor ^utvltS. 



"■Political Register''' (Vol. x., p. 423.). — This 

 periodical was published monthly. No. 1. was 

 published in May, 1767; No. 70. and last, Dec. 

 1772. Each number, with some few exceptions, 

 especially towards the conclusion of the work, 

 contained a print, generally a satirical allusion to 

 some passing event, but sometimes merely por- 



traits. I know nothing more of the authors than 

 the work itself tells us. Edw. Hawkins. 



The first number of the periodical to which 

 M. N. S. refers, was published in May, 1767. I 

 have eleven volumes, concluding Dec. 1772. The 

 first two were published by Almon ; and some 

 account of the origin of the work, and the inten- 

 tion of the projector, with reasons for discon- 

 tinuing it, will be found in Memoirs of J. Almon, 

 p. 47. The work was continued by Beevor of 

 Little Britain. The writers in it are not known 

 to me ; and to speculate upon the subject would 

 occupy too much of your space. Wilkes was 

 certainly a contributor. P. R. 



Will and Testament (Vol. x., p. 277.). — Your 

 readers are much obliged to Mb. Hesi.eden for 

 making that clear by his quotation, which has 

 hitherto been merely the persuasion of legal men, 

 viz. that the will refers to real property, and the 

 testament to personal. Ovtis. 



Sebastopol, or Sevastopol (Vol. x., p. 444.). — 

 The letter v, the third in the Russian alphabet, 

 though corresponding in form with our B, is quite 

 distinct from b, which is the second letter in their 

 alphabet, and has a different shape. Before vowels 

 and soft consonants v is pronounced as in English 

 and French, as in the names Moskva, Sevastian, 

 Sevastopol (with the accent on the penultima), 

 Varfolomei (Bartholomew). Before hard conso- 

 nants, and generally at the end of words, it has 

 the sound offorff, as in the names Orloff, Ivan- 

 off; Vasilieff. R- R- 



Canterbury. 



Sevastopol is the proper pronunciation of this 

 word in English. The Russian letter Z», the third 

 in their alphabet, with which it is spelt, is pro- 

 nounced vay, while the B (which I suppose is the 

 letter designated the " single b " by your corre- 

 spondent A. H. M. White), the second letter of 

 their A, B, C, is pronounced bay. J- S. A. 



Old Broad Street. 



In modern Greek this is the pronunciation of 

 the name imposed on Aktiar by Catherine II., 

 and not Sebastopol. The ^ in modern Greek has 

 the sound of the English v and of the German w. 

 When the modern Greeks wish to represent the 

 sound of the English b, they write /utt, as Mirom- 

 ■n-ifne (Bonaparte). See Hobhouse's notes to the 

 4th canto of Childe Harold, and Bournouf's Gr. 

 Or. p. 2. 



The word pdrnKevs is pronounced vasilefs, and 

 so also in Russian. This used to be the pronun- 

 ciation in the English universities. It is well- 

 known to the Hebrew scholar that 2 has two 

 sounds, that of v when so written, and of b when 

 written with dagesh, thus, 3, This difierence is 



