June 18. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



605 



tures after a short time, which is not the case with 

 pyrogallic acid. The hypo., when thus affected 

 with tlie copperas, appears also to throw a mist 

 over the picture, which new hypo, does not. I 

 should esteem it a favour if any of your numerous 

 readers could inform me the cause of this. 



A. A. P. 



An iodizing Difficulty. — May I request the 

 favour, from some one of your numerous photo- 

 graphic correspondents, of a solution to the fol- 

 low in t» apparent enigma, through the medium of 

 " N. & Q." ? 



Being located in a neighbourhood where there 

 is a scarcity of water in the summer months, I 

 lately took advantage of a pool in a running 

 stream, which ran at the bottom of the grounds 

 of a friend, to soak my calotype papers in, subse- 

 quent to having brushed them over with the solu- 

 tion of iodide of silver, according to the process 

 recommended by Sib W. Newton. One-half of 

 the batch was removed in about two hours and a 

 half, being beautifully clean, and of a nice light 

 primrose colour; and in consequence of an unex- 

 pected call and detention longer than I had anti- 

 cipated, the other half was left floating from two 

 o'clock P.M. until seven or eight in the evening 

 (nearly six hours), when, much to my chagrin, I 

 found on their removal that they had all, more or 

 less, become browned, or, rather, had taken on a 

 dirty, deep, nankeen colour, those that had been 

 first floated being decidedly the worst. I had pre- 

 viously thought that the papers must be left at least 

 two and a half to three hours, a longer period 

 having no other effect than that of softening the 

 papers, or, at most, of allowing some slight portion 

 of the iodide to fall off from their surface, whereas, 

 from the above- described discoloration, an evi- 

 dent decomposition must have commenced, which 

 I am quite at a loss to account for ; neither can I 

 conjecture what the chemical change can have 

 been. I have several times before prepared good 

 papers in trays filled with water from the same 

 stream, but from the quantity running in the 

 brook in the spring months, I never before have 

 had the chance of floating them in the stream 

 itself. 



An explanation of the above difiiculty from 

 some obliging and better-informed photographist 

 would be very thankfully received by 



Henry H. Hele. 

 • Ashburton, Devon. 



P.S. — The pool of water was well shaded, con- 

 sequently not a ray of bright sun-light could pos- 

 sibly impinge on the papers while floating. 



I have always understood that pure iodide of 

 silver was quite insensible to the action of light, 

 or to any other chemical change, as far as the 

 action of atmospheric air was concerned. 



^tplitS ta i^tnor ^utxiti. 



Bishop Frampton (Vol. iii., p. 261.). — For some 

 account of this excellent man, see chapter xxxi. of 

 Mr. Anderdon's Life of Bishop Ken, where are 

 given some very interesting letters, that are printed 

 from the MSS. in the possession of Dr. Williams, 

 Warden of New College, Oxford. Frampton ap- 

 pears to have been at one time chaplain to the 

 British Factory at Aleppo. Mandeville, in the 

 Dedication prefixed to his Journey from Aleppo to 

 Jerusalem, makes honourable mention of him, and 

 attributes the highly creditable character of the 

 society to the influence of that incomparable in- 

 structor. When the funeral procession of Chris- 

 tian, Countess of Devonshire, halted at Leicester, 

 on the way to Derby, a sermon was preached on 

 the occasion by Frampton, who was then chaplain 

 to the Earl of Elgin, the Countess's near relative. 

 In sending these scraps, allow me to express the 

 hope that Mr. Evans has not laid aside his inten- 

 tion of favouring us with a Life of Frampton. 



E. H. A. 



[We cordially join in the wish expressed by our 

 correspondent, that the Vicar of Shoreditch will before 

 long favour us with the publication of the manuscript 

 life of this amiable prelate, written, we believe, by his 

 chaplain. It appears to us doubtful whether the 

 bishop ever published any of his sermons, from what he 

 states in a letter given in the Appendix to TUe Life of 

 John Kettlewell. " I have often," he says, "been in the 

 pulpit, in season and out of season, and also bold and 

 honest enough there, God be praised ; but never in the 

 printing-house yet; and believe I never shall be." The 

 longest printed account of this deprived bishop is given 

 in Rudder's History and Antiquities of Gloucester ; and 

 no doubt many particulars respecting him and other 

 Nonjurors may be found in the Rawlinson MSS. in 

 the Bodleian Library.] 



Parochial Libraries (Vol.vi., p. 432.; Vol. vn. 

 passim). — At Dunblane the collection of books 

 bequeathed by the amiable Leighton is still pre- 

 served. At All Saints, Newcastle-on-Tyne, I 

 once saw, among some old books in the vestry, a 

 small quartovolume of tracts, including Archbishop 

 Laud's speech in the Star Chamber, at the censure^ 

 of Bastwick, Burton, and Prynne. It had been 

 presented by the Rev. E. Moise, M.A., many years 

 lecturer of that church. 



The old library at St. Nicholas, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, contains many curious books and MSS., par- 

 ticularly the old Bible belonglng.to Hexham Abbey. 

 This library was greatly augmented by the muni- 

 ficent bequest of the Rev. Dr. Thomllnson, rector 

 of Whickham, prebendary of St. Paul's, and lec- 

 turer of St. Nicholas, who died at an advanced age, 

 in 1748, leaving all his books to this church. In 

 1825 Archdeacon Bowyer presented a series of 

 lending libraries — ninety-three in all — to the 

 several parishes in the county of Northumberland. 



