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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 154. 



there is no doubt that a good lens, like a good watch, 

 may occasionally be purchased at a low rate, the only 

 certain way of securing one is to go to a respectable 

 dealer, and pay a good price for a good article. After 

 taking much pains, and witnessing the comparative 

 powers of different lenses, we recommend all who can 

 afford it, and especially those who wish to take por- 

 traits, to secure one made by Voightlander. These 

 may always be procured in their genuine state of his 

 sole agents in this country, Messrs. Knight and Co. 

 Cheaper lenses are however to be met with, such as 

 the fluid lens made by Mr. Archer ; and we have 

 lately seen some views in Wales, taken by that gentle- 

 man with one of his own lenses, which are as beautiful 

 as can be desired. — Ed.] 



Photography in the open Air (Vol. vi., p. 251.). — 

 Is it too much to ask of C. P. S. to kindly give us 

 some account of his apparatus, modus operandi, 

 and formulas ; as I think by so doinnj he will be 

 conferring a great favour on many of us amateur 

 photographers ? 



Is his camera a modification of Archer's ? 



A month or two ago I went on a photographic 

 tour in Cheshire ; and my plan was to prepare 

 several papers by Talbot's process in the morning, 

 fill my slides, and take the rest in a book ; obtain 

 permission somewhere to change the papers, and 

 then develop all on my retui-n home. 



Thomas Lawrence. 



Ashby- de-la- Zouch. 



SRtpItc^ to jWtnor «auericrf. 



Glossary of old Scienti-fic and Medical Terms. — 

 P. C. S. S. begs leave to acquaint Bopeas, who (at 

 p. 290. of the present Volume of " N. & Q.") re- 

 quests information on this subject, that he will 

 find an explanation of most of the terms which he 

 cites, by referring to Lexicon Chymicum, SfC, per 

 Gulielmum Johnson: Lond. 8vo. 1652. As the 

 work is not common, P. C. S. S. subjoins the inter- 

 pretation therein given to some of the barbarous 

 words quoted by Booe'as, viz. : 

 " Ahesasum, Lutum Rotee. 



Ahesum, Calx viva. 



Abric, Est sulphur. 



Achamech, Est superfliiitas argenti. 



Acartum, Est Minium. 



Acadzir, Est Stannum. 



Acchatitm, Est Rurichalcum. 



Adibat, Est Mercurius." 



P. c. s. s. 



Tonson and the Westminsters (Vol. v., p. 585.). — 

 This print, alluded to by your correspondent, is 

 the frontispiece to a small poetical tract, called 

 Nech or Nothing ; a consolatory Letter from Mr, 

 D-nt-n (Dunton) to Mr. C. C-rll (Curll), upon 

 his being Tost in a Blanket, &c. Sold by Charles 

 King in Westminster Hall, 1716. 



The following extract may be a satisfactory 

 answer to your querist : 



" * Come, hold him fair ; we'll make him know 

 What 'tis to deal with scholars.' ' Oh ! ' 

 Quoth Edmund. ' Now, without disguise. 

 Confess,' quo' they, ' thy rogueries. 

 What makes you keep in garret high 

 Poor bards ty'd up to poetry ? ' 

 * I'm forced to load them with a clog, 

 To make them study.' ' Here's a rogue 

 Affronts the school ; we'll make thee rue it.' 

 ' Indeed I never meant to do it 1' 

 ' No ? Didst thou not th' oration print 

 Imperfect, with false Latin in 't?' 

 ' O, pardon !' ' No, Sir ; have a care; 

 False Latin's never pardon'd here !' 

 ' Indeed I'll ne'er do so again ; 

 Pray handle me like gentlemen.' 



Oh ! how th' unlucky urchins laugh'd, 



To think they'd maul'd thee fore and aft : 



'Tis such a sensible affront ! 



Why, Pope will write an Epick on 't ! 



Bernard will chuckle at thy moan, 



And all the booksellers in town. 



From Tonson down to Boddingto 



Fleet Street and Temple Bar around. 



The Strand and Holborn, this shall sound ; 



For ever this shall grate thine ear, 



Which is the way to Westminster?" 



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Hon, J 



For further information regarding Dunton and 

 Curll, see Pope's Dunciad, and notes to same. 



S. Wmson. 



The Ci'ystal Palace. — Who designed it f (Vol. vi., 

 pp. 196. 279.). — Having observed the above Query 

 in your paperof the 28th August (Vol. vi., p. 196.), 

 I am induced to inform you that I have seen 

 sketches of Mr. Loudon's (executed in the early 

 part of 1818), of conservatories and other large 

 iron buildings, with roofs on the ridge and furrow, 

 and various other forms ; and Messrs. TV. & D. 

 Bailey, of Holborn, under his superintendence, 

 erected for Colonel Beaumont, IBretton Hall, 

 Yorkshire, a curvilinear conservatory of a domi- 

 cal shape, sixty-five feet diameter, forty feet bigh, 

 the water being conveyed from the upper dome 

 by tlie sixteen cast-iron ornamental columns that 

 supported it. The conservatory was designed in 

 the year 1820 and executed in 1825, and was taken 

 down by his successor in 1832, being in the same 

 state of perfection as when first erected, tlius veri- 

 fying the opinion given, at the time of its erection, 

 by the celebrated engineer (Mr. Alexander Gal- 

 loway), " that the whole is, in point of execution 

 and material, a masterpiece of utility and ele- 

 gance." Messrs. Bailey also erected for Mr. 

 Loudon, at his residence at Bayswater, in the 

 year 1818, a small example of the ridge and fur- 

 row roof. 



