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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 194. 



iiaticti to C0rreiSp0utfeiiW. 



Owing to the necessity of infringing on the present Number for 

 the Title-page of our Seventh Volume, we are compelled to omit 

 many interesting communications, and our usual Notes on 

 Books, &c. 



Abredonensis must be referred to the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions, vol. xliii. p. 249., for a reply to his Query. It will be suffi- 

 cient here to state, that the fVillingham Boy was at his birth of gi- 

 gantic form, and an object of great curiosity to the philosophical 

 world. It is not slated how long he lived, or what education he 

 ■received, so that we cannot ascertain whether he distinguished 

 Mmselfin any " department of literature or art." 



H. N. will find in our Seventh Volume, p. 192., that the 

 Quotation — 



" Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love," &c., 

 is from J. P. Kemble's Comedy of The Panel, altered from 

 Bickerstaff's 'Tis well 'tis no worse. 



Mr. Pollock's Process. — "7n answer to N. T. B., a saturated 

 solution of hypo, saturated with iodide (if silver. 



" 21. Maddox Street. Henry Pollock." 



T. B. (Coventry). Paper positives are seldom varnished. 

 The glossy appearance which they possess may depend either upon 

 their being printed on albumenised paper, or upon their being 

 hot-pressed. The latter process always much improves the pic- 

 ture. Where the size has been much removed, it is well to re-size 

 the paper, which may be done by boiling a few parchment cuttings 

 in water, and soaking the prints in the liquor. 



H. H. H. (Ashburton). All the best authorities concur in the 

 uncertain properties of the sails of gold. We have seen some 



Daguerreotypes which have been executed about three years, and 

 were treated with the salts of gold, and which are now mere 

 shades. 



C. M. M. (Abbey Road). Your question as to the spots haa 

 been carefully answered in a late Number. The film which you 

 notice on the surface of your nit. silver bath depends upon the 

 remaining portion of ether in the collodion being liberated, which, 

 not being very soluble in water, causes the greasy appearance. 

 It soon evaporates, and is of no consequence. 



T. Cook is thanked for his oSer of a cheap and easy method of 

 obtaining pictures for the stereoscope. We shall be glad to receive. 

 it. 



Dr. Diamond's Photographic Notes.— TFe share in the desire 

 expressed by W. C, J. M. S., and many other Correspondents, for 

 the speedy publication of this volume. But we believe the delay is 

 not to be regretted. It is a very easy matter to tarite a book upon 

 Photography; but it requires no small labour, and great consider, 

 ation, to produce such a volume as Da. Diamond proposes, in 

 which it is his desire to explain everything so clearly, that a 

 person living in a remote part of the counti-y, or in the colonies, 

 may, from his directions, make a good photograph. 



Errata — P. 25., last line, read "campus" for "campj-es;** 

 p. 26., fourth line, read " iaro " for " iars; " p. 36., 2nd col. line 

 18., read " regularity " for " irregularity." 



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