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the sheet is divided, every piece should be dis- 

 tinctly marked on its proper side with a lead 

 pencil ; for otherwise, when operating ia a faint 

 light, errors are apt to take place. 



Where so many tastes are to be consulted, it is 

 difficult not to exceed the limits which can be de- 

 voted to the subject of Photography in " N. & Q. ;" 

 and yet at the same time to be sufficiently explicit 

 to enable the operator to work with success from 

 the instructions given. But the many Queries 

 from your numerous correspondents convince me 

 of the happy medium afforded in your publication, 

 because by a mutual interchange of our experi- 

 ence we may render assistance to each other by 

 asking and receiving advice in the many nice 

 points connected with the practice of this interest- 

 ing art. 



Having thus replied to your correspondent 

 A. II. R., and given him directions for practising 

 the collodion process, together with an easy mode 

 of reproducing his pictures by printing them on 

 paper, I will endeavour in a future Number to give 

 him satisfactory directions for the production of 

 Talbotypes on paper, as well as their modification 

 on wax paper. Hugh W. Diamond. 



( To be continued. ) 



aacpIteS ta Minav ^xxevitS. 



• Paleys MS. Lectures (Vol, vi., pp. 243. 304.). — 

 In answer to the questions of Mk. Forres, I beg 

 to inform him that Paley's Lectures on Locke, Sfc, 

 were copied by me in 1828, from MSS. which had 

 been taken by one of his college pupils with whom 

 •I had the privilege of being acquainted in the 

 latter part of his life. Upon his death in 1847, 

 at the advanced age of ninety-two, his books and 

 papers were dispersed, and I doubt whether the 

 original JNISS. be now extant; I can, however, 

 vouch for my copy being, verbatim et literatim, 

 correct. 



Mb. Forbes next inquires why the MSS. have 

 not been printed and presented to the world ? To 

 this I answer, simply because, since they have 

 been in my possession, a competent editor has not 

 been found ; and it was with the hope that some 

 one^ might be induced, from the interest of the 

 subject, to present himself, that I employed the 

 medium of the " N. & Q." to make the circum- 

 stance known to its readers. George Munfokd. 



East Winch. 



Where was the first Prince of Wales horn? 

 (Yo\. vi., p. 270.).— The interest attached to this 

 subject is much enhanced by the probability of 

 Her Majesty's visit to Caernarvon. 



In the Journal of the Aixhceological Institute for 

 September, 1850 (No. 27.), is a paper by the Rev. 

 C. H. Hartshorne upon Caernarvon Castle. In it 



Mr. Cuthbebt Bede will find a solution of his 

 Query, and a very interesting account of the noble 

 building to which it refers, founded upon data 

 which have been too long neglected in the con- 

 sideration of such matters, and in opposition to 

 which " romantic tradition " should be allowed to 

 have no weight whatever, — the public records of 

 the kingdom. Painful as it may be to some to 

 contemplate the downfall of such traditions as that 

 of Edward II.'s birth in the Eagle Tower, historic 

 truth is of greater consequence to all. It will be 

 seen by Mr. Hartshorne's paper, that the tower 

 was not built till Edwai'd of Caernarvon was 

 thirty-three years of age. But the cognomen is 

 nevertheless correct. The first Prince of Wales 

 was certainly born in the town of Caernarvon ; and 

 most probably in some building temporarily erected 

 for the accommodation of the royal household. 



J. Bt. 



Arabic Inscription (Yo\. vi., p. 289.). — Mr. 

 Bolton Corney has probably been already in- 

 formed that the Eastern characters on his printed 

 slip signify, " The Arab Master (or Master of tbe- 

 Arabic), George, son of Mirza, of the cities of 

 Aleppo." 



If medindt for medineh be not a mistranscription, 

 Jerjis el Arabi was probably no great scribe. In 

 the year 1727, the Arab version of the New Tes- 

 tament was published in London at the expense 

 of the Society for Promoting Christian Know- 

 ledge, under the superintendence of Salomon 

 Negri of Damascus. (See De Schnurrer's Biblio- 

 theca Arabica, p. 376.) Mrs. Swinton was widow 

 of the celebrated orientalist. Anatol. 



Pepys's Morma (Vol. vi., p. 342.). — Since the 

 publication of the third edition of the Diary, the 

 register of All-Hallows, Barking, has been con- 

 sulted, and the only burial therein recorded as 

 having taken place on the 22nd of October, 1G62, 

 is that of Elizabeth, daughter of John Dickens, 

 whose interment on the 14th of the same month, 

 had been previously entered. 



The young lady's real name is thus clearly iden- 

 tified ; but we are still uninformed why Pepys 

 called her '■'■Morma." Braybrooke. 



Was MorelVs Booh-plate by Hogarth ? (Vol. vi., 

 p. 322.). — Collectors (and I speak fi-om experience, 

 but yet with deference) are not aware of any 

 Morell book-plate by Hogarth. At the sale at 

 Christie's (April, 1845) of Mr. Standly's Hogarths 

 (the finest collection of Hogarths ever formed), 

 there was a drawing of Morell, and undoubtedly 

 by Hogarth. Mr. Standly had a choice collection 

 of book-plates by Hogarth, now in my possession, 

 without the names of the persons for whom they were 

 executed. Will Mr. Hooper kindly call at No. 6. 

 Pall Mall, and show me the Morell book-plate ? I 



