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iodide and bromide of silver may be increased, if a thicker 

 coating of these substances be required. The paper, after 

 being washed in several waters, may be dried and used as 

 the ordinary iodized paper. After a certain time the 

 acetic acid will require to be renewed. If the operator 

 prefers using the ordinary pyroligheous acid, as a cheaper 

 reagent, he can do so, only employing double the quantity. 

 This paper, I find, is rather injuriously affected by ex- 

 posure to light before sensitising, and should be kept in a 

 dark portfolio; but if only exposed for a very short time, 

 and not to very bright light, appears to spontaneously 

 recover its former condition. F. Maxwell Lyxe. 



Argeles, Hautes Pyrenees, Dec. 15, 1854. 



** La Lumiere " and Photography in England. — Our able 

 French cotemporary La Lumieee, of the 23rd ultimo, 

 contains two articles which show that the entente cordials 

 between the French and English photographers is com- 

 plete. The first is a critical notice of some copies of Dr. 

 Diamond's Portraits of the Insane, in which full justice is 

 done to our excellent correspondent's abilities as a photo- 

 grapher, and to the value to the medical world of this 

 ingenious application of his art. The second has reference 

 to the subscriptions to support M. Laroche in his law- 

 suit with Mr. Talbot, and to the testimonial to Dr. Dia- 

 mond; and after complimenting English photographers 

 for the manner in which they have come forward on both 

 these grounds, and in the latter case how they appreciate 

 the services of one " who seeks not his own benefit, but 

 the jwogress of his art," tlie writer expresses his hopes 

 to see the daj' when similar services will be everywhere 

 recognised in a similar manner. 



Photography and Law. — The litigation in the photo- 

 graphic world has not been put a stop to by the recent 

 verdict in the case of Talbot v. Laroche. It is under- 

 stood that the plaintiff means to move for a new trial, 

 and that on the 9th he will make his application to the 

 Privy Council for a renewal of his patent ; and to which 

 application no opposition has, we hear, been entered. On 

 the other hand, a meeting has been held, " of those who 

 are interested in the art," to adopt measures for the pur- 

 pose of supporting the verdict. 



JExh^ition of the Photographic Society. — This exhi- 

 bition, which is to take place early in the present month, 

 will, we believe, show the vast progress made by the art 

 during the past year. 



Many complaints have reached us of the shortness of 

 the notice given by the committee, and La Lumiere of 

 Saturday last gives expression to the same feeling on 

 behalf of foreign exhibitors. Why should this be? 



" After me the deluge"" (Vol. iil., pp. 299. 397. ; 

 VoL v., p. 619.). — Milton says, that Tiberius was 

 one who uaed the infamous proverb alluded to by 

 Cioero : 



" They practise that when they fall, they may fall in a 

 general ruin; just as cruel Tiberius would wish : 



* ' When I die, let the earth be rolled in flames.' " 

 Meaaon of Church Government, book i. ch. v. p. 34. 



MACKaSZIB WAtOGTT, M.A. 



P.S. — A correspondent asks what is the origin 

 of the " bean feast" among the servants at Lin- 



coln's Inn ? I believe several trades adopt the 

 same name for the journeymen's merry-making. 



Remedy for Jaundice (Vol. x., p. 321.) ; Venom 

 of Toads (Vol. vi., p. 517.). — The remedy for 

 jaundice, recorded by C. W. B., is not peculiar to 

 Dorsetshire. The learned Fred. Hoffmann (of 

 Halle) made a note of it in 1675, in his Clavis 

 Pharmaceutica Schroderiana, p. 705. : 



" Pediculus. Contra ictemm devorantur h, rusticis 

 nS ix, et in atrophia h nonnullis probantur." 



The same volume supplies an older version of 

 the story in Thomas Lupton's A Thousand Notable 

 Things (1630), which was noted by Mr. Peacock 

 in Vol. vi., p. 517. ; and replies to the Query which 

 the story suggested, " Has the toad an antipathy 

 to rue ? " 



" Salvia . . . Transplantatur Martio, cum rutd inter- 

 mixta, qua serpentes et bufones salvia vieiniam arceantur." 



Thus far Hoffman c[uotes from Jo. Schroeder ; he 

 then adds : 



" Salvia virtutes ad permultos affectus corporis humani 

 commendari infrk videbimus ; nihilominus tamen et ilia 

 suas habet qualitates noxias et virulenta censetur esse ea, 

 quae foliorum pinnas quasi carbunculatas habet, et penitus 

 retorrida est, emaciata et sicca, ad cujus radices ut pluri- 

 mum bufones et alia virosa insecta nidulantur. Paneus, 

 de Venenis, cap. 24., refert, se h, fide digno accepisse, duos 

 mercatores, non longe ab urbe Tolosana illotis salvise foliis 

 in vinum conjectis illicb atque illud bibissent, neci fuisse 

 datos; sub cujus radicibus ingens bufonum acervus sta- 

 bulari deinde repertus est, quos spurcitie sua salviam 

 spurcasse. Medicus istius loci confirmavit." — P. 538. 



The works of Parseus (Ambrose Pare) were, I 

 believe, first published in 1561. Vertaur. 



Hartford, Conn. 



Age of Oaks (Vol. x., p. 146.).— I find the 

 following in the London Chronicle, Jan. 24, 1758 : 



" We hear from Durham that last week Thomas Tay- 

 lor, Esq., of Cornsaw Raw, in the parish of Lanchester, 

 had a considerable fall of trees, amongst which was one 

 oak of extraordinary sisse ; the length of the trunk from 

 the root to the branches 46 yards 18 inches, the circum- 

 ference 7 yards 19 inches : the extreme distance of the 

 branches as it lay along the ground measured across the 

 trunk 60 yards. It is valued at 50/. Near the roat waa 

 found, in a small iron box, a grant of that extensive 

 manor to the family from King Jolm, supposed to have 

 been buried there, about the time of the invasion by 

 David, King of Scots, in the year 1347." 



Paternoster Row. 



White Slavery (Vol. x., p. 806.). — The laws of 

 Pennsylvania, and of several other of the United 

 States, formerly authorised the sale of the services 

 of insolvent debtors, and of foreign immigrants, 

 for a term of time, to pay their passage-money 

 and other debts. In some States, laws of this kind 

 continued in force until a very recent period. 

 Persons who thus sold themselves to service, for 



