Feb. 12. 1853.] 



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has been placed on the levelled stand and deve- 

 loped, proceed thus : instead of holding the plate 

 by the fingers to perform the subsequent processes, 

 take a strip of glass (say five inches long and one 

 and a half wide for the ordinary portrait size), put 

 a single drop of water on it, and carefully pass it 

 beneath the developed plate ; lift the glass thereby ; 

 the adhesion is sufficiently firm to sustain the plate 

 in any required position for the remaining ma- 

 nipulations till it is washed and finished. 



CoKEIiT. 



Sir W. Newton s Process. — Chloride of Bro- 

 mium — May I ask, through the medium of your 

 very excellent journal, what purpose Sie W. 

 Newton intends to meet by the application of 

 his wash of chloride of barium previous to iodiz- 

 ing ? F. Maxwell Lyte. 



The Collodion Process. — Absence from London 

 has prevented my seeing your Numbers regularly ; 

 but in one for December I see Mr. Archer has 

 used my name in connexion with the collodion 

 process. He states that he called several times, 

 and made me familiar with the process ; by which 

 he would lead persons to suppose that he taught 

 me in fact to take pictures. Now I beg most dis- 

 tinctly to state that this is incorrect. Mr. Archer 

 made, it is true, several attempts in my glass room 

 to take a picture, but totally failed. And why ? 

 Because he attempted to follow out the process as 

 he himself had published it. From that time I 

 worked it out by myself, assisted by hints from 

 Mr. Fry, who at the time I allude to was a success- 

 ful manipulator, and had produced and exhibited 

 many beautiful pictures, and at whose suggestion 

 I commenced it in the first instance. 



There is also another portion of Mr. Archer's 

 letter incorrect ; but as this relates to the sale of 

 collodion, I will let it pass, trusting, as you have 

 given insertion to his, you will not refuse space for 

 mine. F. Horne. 



123. Newgate Street. 



Portable Camera (Vol. vii., p. 71.). — If India 

 rubber should turn out to be what H. Y. W. N. 

 thinks he has found it to be, it would be capable 

 of being turned to excellent account. For in- 

 stance, instead of having a single " portable ca- 

 mera," which is on many accounts very awkward 

 to use, why should not the tourist have a light 

 framework constructed, and covered entirely with 

 thin India rubber : in fact, an India rubber box, 

 in which his camera, and a partitioned shelf con- 

 taining his collodion, developing fluid, hypo-soda 

 solution, &c., might be easily packed, and in which, 

 by the aid of sleeves, &c., he might coat his plates, 

 and develop and fix them, quite apart from his 

 camera? He must have something to pack his 

 camera, &c. in ; and the above-described packing- 

 case would be very light, and also waterproof. 



J. L. S. 



Chaplains to Noblemen (Vol. vii., p. 85.). — The 

 statute in which chaplains to noblemen are first 

 named is 21 Henry VIII. c. 13. (1529) ; in which, 

 by sect. 1 1., it is enacted, " that every Archbysshop 

 and Duke may have vj chapleyns ;" " every Markes 

 and Erie may have fyve chapleyns ;" " every vyce- 

 count and other Byshop may have foure chap- 

 leyns ;" and "the Chancellour of England for the 

 tyme beying and every Baron or Knyght of the 

 Garter may have thre chapleyns :" and one chaplain 

 of each order, whether Duke, Marquess, Earl, Vis- 

 count, or Baron, is thereby authorised to purchase 

 "lycence or dispensacion to take, receyve, and 

 kepe two parsonages or benefices with cure of 

 souls" (Stat, of the Realm, vol. iii. p. 294.). I be- 

 lieve that X. will find a regular registry of these 

 appointments in Doctors' Commons. 



It may be interesting to add, that among the 

 other persons named in this statute are the Master 

 of the Rolls, who may have " two chapleyns ;" and 

 the " Chefe Justice of the Kinges Benche," who 

 may have " one chapleyn." By another statute, 

 25 Henry VIII. c. 16. (1533-4), this last power 

 to have one chaplain is extended to " every Jugge 

 of the seid high courtes" (King's Bench and Com- 

 mon Pleas), " the Chaunceller and Chefie Baron 

 of the Exchequer, the kynges generall attorney 

 and generall soliciter" (Ibid. p. 457.) 



Edward Foss. 



Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger 

 (Vol. vi., p. 614.). — I have been and still am in- 

 quiring into the two cases of mitigation, intending 

 to send the result, when I have found satisfactory 

 evidence, or exhausted my sources of inquiry. 

 The communication of Whunside is the first 

 direct testimony, and may settle the Fawcett case. 

 As he was " resident at Mr. Fawcett's when the 

 circumstances occurred," perhaps he will be so 

 kind as to state the date and place of the con- 

 viction, and the name of the convict. By adding 

 his own name, the facts will stand upon his au- 

 thority. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Brydone the Tourist (Vol. vii., p. 108.).— A. B. C. 

 inquires the birthplace of Brydone, " the tourist 

 and author." I presume he refers to Patrick 

 Brydone, who wrote Travels in Sicily and Malta, 

 and who held, I believe, an appointment under the 

 Commissioners of Stamps, and died about thirty 

 years ago. Some four-and-twenty years back, I 

 arrived, late in the evening, at the hospitable 

 cottage of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, at Altrieve, 

 in the vale of Yarrow. It happened to be, as it 

 often was, too full of guests to afford me a bed; 

 and I was transferred by my host to the house of 

 a neighbouring gentleman, where I slept. That 

 gentleman was Mr. Brydone, of Mount Benger, 



