June 4. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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PHOTOGRAPHIC SCHOOL. 

 -ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI- 

 TUTION. 



The SCHOOL is NOW OPEN for instruc- 

 tion in all brandies of Pliotograpliy, to Ladies 

 and Gentlemen, on alternate days, from Eleven 

 till Four o'clock, under llie joint direction of 

 T. A. M ALONE, Esq., who has long been con- 

 nected with Photography, and J. H. PEPFEK, 

 Esq., tlic Chemist to the institution. 



A Prospectus, with terms, jnay be had at the 

 Institution. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. — HORNE 

 & CO.'S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining 

 Instantaneous Views, and Portraits in from 

 three to thirty seconds, according to light. 



Portraits obtained by the above, for delicacy 

 of detail rival the choicest Daguerreotypes, 

 epecimens of which may be seen at their Esta- 

 blishment. 



Also every description of Apparatus, Che- 

 micals, &c. ^c. used in tliis beautiful Art. — 

 i'a. and 121. Newgate Street. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. — Collodion 

 (Iodized with the Ammonio-Iodide of 

 Silver-).- J. B. HOCKTN & CO., Chemists, 289. 

 Strand, were the iirst in England who pub- 

 lished the application of this agent (see Athe- 

 fueum, Aug. 14th). Their Collodion (price 

 9a!. per oz.) retains its extraordinary sensitive- 

 ness, tenacity, and colour unimpaired for 

 months : it may be exported to any climate, 

 and the Iodizing Compound mixed as required. 

 J. B. nOCKIN & CO. manufacture PURE 

 CnE.MlCALS and all APPAKATUS with 

 the latest Improvements adapted for all the 

 Photographic and Daguerreotype processes. 

 Cameras for Developing in the open Country. 

 GLASS BATHS adapted to any Camera. 

 Lenses from the best Makers. Waxed and 

 Iodized Papers, &c. 



Just published, price Is., free by Post Is. id., 



CFHE WAXED -PAPER PHO- 



A TOGRAPHIC PROCESS of GUSTAVE 

 LE GRAY'S NEW EDITION. Translated 

 from the i rench. 



Sole Agents in the United Kingdom for 

 VOIGHTLANDER & SON'S celebrated 

 Lenses for Portraits and Views. 



General Depot for Turner's, Whatman's, 

 Canson Fr&rc8',La Croix, and other Talbotype 

 Papers. 



Pure Photographic Chemicals. 

 Instructions and Specimens in eveiy Branch 

 of the Art. 



GEORGE KNIGHT & SONS, Foster Lane, 

 London. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER.— 

 Negative and Positive Papers of What- 

 man's, Turner's, Saiiford's, and Canson 

 Prferes' make. Waxed-Paper for Le Gray's 

 Process. Iodized and Sensitive Paper for every 

 kind of Photography. 



Sold by JOHN SANFORD, Photographic 

 Stationer, Aldine Chambers, 13, Paternoster 

 Bow, London. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC PIC- 

 TIIRES.- A Selection of the above 

 beautiful Productions (comprising Views in 

 VENICE, PARIS, RUSSIA. NUBIA, &c.) 

 may be seen at BLAND & LONG'S, 153. Fleet 

 Street, where may also be procured Appara- 

 tus of every Description, and pure Chemicals 

 for the practice of Photography iu all its 

 Branches. 



Calotype, Daguerreotype, and Glass Pictures 

 for the Stereoscope. 



BLAND & LONG, Opticians, Philosophical 

 and Photographical Instrument Makers, and 

 Operative Chemists, 153. lleet Street. 



CLERICAL, 

 LIFE 



MEDICAL, AND GENERAL 

 ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 



Established 1824. 



FIVE BONUSES have been declared ; at the last in .January, 185?, the sum of 131,125?. was 

 added to the Policies, protlucing a Bonus varying with the different ages from -M to 55 per cent, 

 on the Premiums paid during the five years, or from bl. to Ml. lus. per cent, on the Sura 

 Assured. 



Tlie small share of Profit divisible in futur? among the Sliareholders being now provided for, 

 the ASSURED will hei-oafter derive all the Ijeneflts obtainable from a Mutual Office, WITHOUT 

 ANY LIABILITY OR RISK OF PARTNERSHIP. 



POI,ICIES effected beibre the 30th June next, will be entitled, at the next Division, to one 

 year's additional share of Profits over later Assurers. 



On Assurances for the whole of Life only one half of the Premiums need be paid for the first 

 five years. 



INVALID LIVES may be Assiu-ed at rates proportioned to the risk. 



Claims paid tliirty days after proof of death, and all Policies are Indixputahle except in cases 

 of fraud. 



Tables of Rates and forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of the Society s Agents, or of 



GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Resideat Secretary. 

 99. Great Eussell Street, Bloomsbury, London. 



niTY OF LONDON LIFE 



\j ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 2. Royal Ex- 

 change Buildings, London. 



Subscribed Capital, a Quarter of a Million. 

 Tnistees. 

 Mt. Commissioner West, Leeds. 

 The Hon. W. F. Campbell. Stratheden House. 

 John Thomas, Esq., Bishop's Stortford. 



This Society embraces every advantage of 

 existing Life Offices, Inz. the Mutual System 

 without its risks or liabilities ; the Proprietary, 

 with its security, t implicity, and economy ; the 

 Accumulative System, introduced by this So- 

 ciety, uniting life with the convenience of a 

 deposit bank ; Self-Protecting Policies, also in- 

 troduced by this Society, embracing by one 

 policy and one rate of premium a Life Assu- 

 raace, an Endowment, and a Deferred Annuity. 

 No forfeiture. Loans with commensurate As- 

 surances. Bonus recently declared, 20 per 

 Cent. EDW. FRED. LEEKS, Secretary. 



O PECTACLES. — WM. ACK- 



kj LAND applies his medical knowledge as 

 a Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company, 

 London, Ills theory as a Mathematician, and 

 his practice as a Working Optician, aided by 

 Smee's Optometer, in the selection of Spectacles 

 suitable to every derangement of vision, so as 

 to preserve the sight to extreme old age. 



ACHROMATIC TELE- 



SCOPES, with the New Vetzlar Eye-pieces, as 

 exhibited at the Academy of Sciences in Paris. 

 The Lenses of these Eye-pieces are so con- 

 structed that the rays of light fall nearly per- 

 pendicular to the surface of the various lenses, 

 by which the aberration is completely removed ; 

 and a telescope so fitted gives one-third more 

 miignit'ying power and light than could be ob- 

 tained by the old Eye-pieces. Prices of the 

 various sizes on application to 



WM. ACKLAND, Optician, 93. Hatton Gar- 

 den, London. 



PENNETT'S MODEL 



I ) WATCH, as shown at tlie GRKAT EX- 

 HIBITION. No. 1. Class X., in Gold and 

 Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to 

 all Climates, may now be had at the MANU- 

 FACTORY, 65. ClIEAPSIDE. Superior Gold 

 London-made Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 

 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4 

 guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold 

 Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas. Ditto, in Silver 

 Cases, 8, 6, and 5guineas. Superior Lever, with 

 Chronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 

 guineas. Bennett's Pocket Chronometer, Gold, 

 50 iiuineas ; Silver, 40 guineas. Everjr Watch 

 skilfully examined, timed, and its performance 

 guaranteed. Barometers, 2i.,3Z.,iand4i. Ther- 

 mometers from Is. each. 



BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument 

 Maker to the Royal Observatory, the Board of 

 Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen, 



65. CHEAPSIDE. 



WESTERN LIFE ASSU- 

 RANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY, 

 3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON. 

 Founded A.D. 1842. 



H. E. Bieknell, Esq. 

 W. Cabell, Esq. 

 T.S. Cocks, Jun. Esq 



M.P. 

 G. II. Drew. Esq. 

 W. Evans, Esq. 

 W. Freeman, Esq. 

 F. Fuller, Esq, 



Directors. 



J. H. Qondhart, Esq. 



T Grissell, Esq. 



J. Hunt, Esq. 



J. A. I.ethbridge,Esq. 



E. Lucas, Esq. 



J. Lys Seager, Esq. 



J. B. White, Esq. 



J . Caj'tcr Wood, Esq. 



Trustees. 



W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C. : L. C. Humfrey, 



Esq., Q.C ; (JeorgeDrew, Es(|. 



Physician. — William Rich. Bosham, M.D. 



Bankers, — Messrs. Cocks. Biddulph, and Co., 



Charing Cross. 



VALUABLE PRFVILEGE. 



POLICIES effected in this Office do not be- 

 come void through temporary diflSciilty in pay- 

 ing a Premium, as permission is given upon 

 application to suspend the payment at interest, 

 according to the conditions detailed in the Pro- 

 spectus. 



Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 

 100/.. with a Share in three-fourths of the 

 Profits: — 



Age 

 17 - 

 22 - 



£ s. d. 

 - 2 10 8 

 • 2 13 6 



ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., 

 Actuary. 



Now ready, price 10s. 6<7., Second Edition, 

 with material additions, INDUSTRIAI> IN- 

 VEST.MENT and EMIGRATION: being a 

 TREATISE on BENEFIT BUILDING SO- 

 CIETIES, and on the Cieneral Principles of 

 Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of 

 Freehold Laud Societies, Building Companies, 

 ic. With a Mathematical Appendix on Com- 

 pound Interest and Life Assurance. By AR- 

 THUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to 

 the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. Parlia- 

 ment Street, Loudon. 



WINSLOW HALL, BUCKS. 



DR. LOVELL'S SCHOLASTIC 

 ESTABLISHMENT (exclusively for 

 the Sons of Gentlemen) was founded at Mann- 

 heim in 1836, under the Patronage of H. R. H. 

 the GRANDE DUCHESSE STEPHANIE of 

 Baden, and removed to Winslow in 1848. The 

 Coiiree of Tuition includes the French and 

 (lerman Languages, and all other Studies 

 whicu are Preparatory to the Universities, the 

 MilitaryColleges. and the Army Examination. 

 The number of Pupils is limited to Thirty. 

 The Principal is always in the Schoolroom, 

 and superintends the Classes. Tiiere are also 

 French, German, and Eng'ish resident Mas- 

 ters. Pros)iectu3 and References can be luul 

 on application to the Principal. 



