Dec. 3. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Canson's paper, and there is no loss from any 

 portion adhering to the dishes, evaporation, or 

 filtering. This is far more than would be ima- 

 gined when only a sheet or two of paper is re- 

 quired at one time. Lastly, with regard to the 

 strokes being visible after printing the positive, I 

 do not find them so in general, though occasionally 

 such a thing does happen when sufficient care has 

 not been taken in the preparation ; but I find stria3 

 quite as visible on two positives prepared by Dr. 

 Diamond himself, which he kindly gave me : how- 

 ever, I will forward a sample of my paper for your 

 judgment, and also a portion for K. N. M. if he 

 will take the trouble of trying the same. 



Geo. Shadbolt. 



New Developing Mixture. — Having for some 

 months past used the following developing mix- 

 ture, and finding it very bright and easily applied, 

 I beg to offer it to your notice. It does not cost 

 more than three farthings per ounce, and there- 

 fore may be worth the consideration of beginners. 

 I do not know a better where the metallic appear- 

 ance is not desu-ed. 



No. 1. Pyrogalllc acid - 2 grains. 



Glacial acetic acid - 1 drachm. 



Water - - - 1 oz. 



'So. 2. Protosulphate of iron 10 grains. 



Nitric acid - - 2 drops. 



Water - - - 1 oz. 

 To six drachms of No. 2. add two of No. 1. 



I pour it on, but do not return it to the bottle, as 

 it is apt to spoil if so used. T. L. Merritt. 



Queries on the Alhumenized Process. — Allow me 

 to put a few questions through your valued paper. 



In the albumen process on glass, Messrs. Ross 

 and Thomson, in Thornthwaite's Guide, recom- 

 mend 10 drops of sat. solution of Iodized potassa 

 to each egg. Now is it meant ten di'ops, or ten 

 minims ? If the former, a drop varies with the 

 bottle and quantity of liquid In it ; and ten drops 

 are nearly half the bulk of ten minims, generally 

 speaking. Then as to the egg : an egg in this 

 country is only at most 6 5 ; in England an egg 

 appears twice as large. — Could you state the 

 general bulk of an egg in England ; and to what 

 quantity by bulk or weight of albumen the 10 

 drops or minims are to be applied ? When I say 

 an egg Is only 6 5, I mean the white of one. 



A Subscriber, 



Bombay. 



3RejpIie^ to i^tiTor ^itcrft^. 



Poems in connexion with Waterloo (Vol. vli., 

 p. 6.). — A correspondent of the Naval and Mili- 

 tary Gazette of November 19, 1853, signing him- 

 self « M. A., Pem. Coll., Oxford," has pointed out 



an error into which I had fiiUen " respecting the 

 elm-trees at and connected with Waterloo." 



I certainly was given to understand, when I 

 received the monody, that it was written by the 

 public orator on the death of his son who fell at 

 Waterloo : whereas It clearly appears by the obi- 

 tuary In the Gentleman's Magazine, that Ensign 

 William Crowe, first battalion, 4th foot, son of the 

 public orator at Oxford, ivas killed at the attack 

 upon New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815. 



I hasten to acknowledge my mistake, though I 

 am glad that the two copies of verses found a 

 place in your columns. Braybrooke. 



Richard Oswald (Vol. viil., p. 442.). — Your 

 Querist will find many letters to and from him in 

 Franklin's Memoirs. He was for some years a 

 merchant in the city of London. In 1759 he 

 purchased the estate of Auchincruive, in the 

 county of Ayr, and died there In 1783. No 

 memoir of him has ever been published. He was 

 for many years an intimate friend of Lord Shel- 

 bourne, who sent him to Paris in 1782, and again 

 in 1783, to negotiate with Franklin, with whom 

 he had been for some time acquainted. During 

 the Seven Years' War he acted as commissary- 

 general to the allied armies under the Duke of 

 Brunswick, who said of him in the official de- 

 spatches, that "England had sent him commissaries 

 fit to be generals, and generals not fit to be com- 

 missaries." J. H. E. 



Gra^nmonfs Marriage (Vol. viii., p. 461.). — 

 In one of the notes to Grammont, originally, I 

 believe, introduced by Sir W. Scott in his edition, 

 but which appears at p. 415. of Bohn's reprint, we 

 are told on the authority of the Biographia Gallica, 

 vol. i. p. 202. : 



" The famous Count Grammont was thought to be 

 the original of The Forced Marriage. This nobleman, 

 during his stay at the court of Eiv'hmd, had made love 

 to Miss Hamilton, but was coming away from France 

 without bringing matters to a proper conclusion. The 

 young lady's brothers pursued him, and came up with 

 him near Dover, in order to exchange some pistol shot 

 with him. They called out, ' Count Grammont, have 

 you forgot nothing at London ? ' ' Excuse me,' an- 

 swered the Count guessing their errand, ' I forgot to 

 marry your sister ; so lead on, and let us finish that 

 affair, ' " 



My object in this communication is to supply 

 an omission in Mr, Steinman's very interesting 

 Notes, who does not show, as he might have done, 

 how the letters of M. de Comminges prove the 

 truth of this story. For, from the passage quoted 

 by Mr. Steinman from the letter to the king, 

 dated Dec. 20— -24, 1663, it is evident that the 

 count was about on that day to leave England 

 " without bringing matters to a proper conclusion ; 

 while that he married the lady within a day or 



