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prepared papers exposed ; fix the lower roller by a bind- 

 ing screw which is attached to it, but which is so obvious 

 a matter tliat I have not explained it ; then turn the key 

 gently till you feel that the calico is properly stretched, 

 and lix it in position also by its binding screw. Now 

 yoa have the tirst sheet of your paper evenly extended 

 over the glass plate, and ready to be inipressioned, take 

 oif tlie cap of the lens and expose the necessaiy time, 

 cover the lens again ; if a second copy of the same view 

 be required, unscrew the binding screws, and move round 

 the key till the index tape shows you that the second 

 sheet of paper has come into position, and then proceed 

 as already directed. If some other view is required, with- 

 draw your index, and apply the key to the lower roller ;, 

 and tui'ning it the reverse way, you thus roll up upon it 

 the impressioned papers, and they are then free froni all 

 chance of being injured by light. The index tape is of 

 exactly the same length as the calico band carrying the 

 paper ; and being placed along side the band in the dark 

 room after the papers have been attached^ it is marked off 

 to correspond with the papers ; and the position of each 

 paper may be conveniently noted on it as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 

 Slc, thus : 



** Slack Calico carrying the prepared Paper. 



" Index Tape. 



4th 



3rd 



2ad 



1st 



" As a farther precaution against light, and to guard 

 against the evil effects of air upon the prepared paper, I 

 leave the black calico band a foot larger than is necessary 

 to carry all the papers. So that when all are wound 

 round the roller, the laat five or six plies are plain calico, 

 thus excluding light. I take the roller thus prepared 

 out of the dark slide, and place it in a round metal case, 

 which has a top which screws on air-tight; in the centre 

 of this top is a short tube, opened and shut air-tight at 

 pleasure by a small stop-cock; to this tube I attach a 

 small suction pump, and, after all is thus prepared, I in- 

 troduce the roller with the prepared paper into the metal 

 tube ; screw on the top, and exliauat the air. Shut the 

 cock, and remove the exhaust pump. As a precaution 

 against heat, I carry the metal tube in a case of damp 

 cotton cloth, covered- over with a dry piece of woollen 

 cloth or flannel. 



" It will be evident that, if wished, the separata focus- 

 sing-glass may be dispensed with ; and the glass plate of 

 the dark slide, being ground, will perfectly answer the 

 purpose by simply removing the end of the calico band 

 from the upper roller, and allowing it to fall to the bottom 

 of the camera while focussing, and then attaching it 

 again when prepared to take the picture. H. J. B. 



" Bombay, January, 1865." 



Mairdil(Yo\. ix., p. 233.). — There is a street 

 in Shrewsbury called Mardol. VYould it be so 

 called from the above word ? As it is just over 

 the Welsh bridge, it strikes me aa probable, from 

 the gossiping confabulations that the Welsh and 



English in time of peace must have indulged in, 

 especially when you know how the Welsh will 

 haggle, i. e. bargain, about a sixpence. In another 

 place I see it is given as meaning puddle. The 

 Severn continually overflows the lower part of 

 Mardol. Anon. 



Cabbages (Yol. ix., p. 424.). — I have seen many 

 cabbages growing wild in most inaccessible parts 

 of the Great Orme's Head, Llandudno : no doubt 

 a natural plant. Anon. 



Walter Wilsons MSS. (Vol. xi., p. 146.). — 

 B. H. C. is informed, that the MSS. of the late 

 Walter Wilson are deposited in the Dissenters' 

 Library, under the care of Dr. Williams's trus- 

 tees, Red Cross Street, London. A list of the 

 MSS. contributed by Mr. Richard Cogan, the 

 courteous librarian, will be found in the Christian 

 Reformer for 1847 (vol. iii., N. S., pp. 758, 759.). 

 These papers and collections appear to relate al- 

 most exclusively to the history of English Dis- 

 senting churches. R. B. A. 



Haberdashers (Vol. x., pp. 304. 415. 475.). — 

 A note to The Guardian (Chalmers' edit, of JBrit. 

 Essayists, p. 61., No. 10.) says, berdash was a kind 

 of neckcloth so called, whence such as sold them 

 were styled haberdashers. C. (1) 



Lord Kaimes (Vol. xi., p. 125.). — There is an 

 evident mistake here. Lord Kaimes was not the 

 man to edit MS. letters of James VI. I suspect 

 the work alluded to must be the private corre- 

 spondence of James with Sir Robert Cecil, which 

 was printed from MSS. in the library of the Fa- 

 culty of Advocates by Lord Hailes. This work, 

 which is very curious and historically valuable, 

 was, however, published. 



Pray what work is the one alluded to? We 

 have no copy of Francis' Historical Questions in 

 the Faculty library, the great repository of all 

 sorts of books on this side the Tweed. Where 

 can it be procured ? J> M. 



Wheelbarrow (Vol. ix.,, p. 77.). — Is it worth a 

 Note, that Mr. Upton of Mackenzie Farm, Crimea, 

 and who is now I believe a prisoner, having surren- 

 dered to Lord Raglan himself (if I remember the 

 account as told in The Times) vfas the person 

 who introduced wheelbarrows in the place of 

 sacks into Russia ? He was the son of a tenant 

 farmer in Warwickshire, and was employed by 

 Mr. Telford in some suborditiate situation while 

 making the Holyhead road : on the completion of 

 it, he went to London, and got introduced to the 

 Russian Embassy ; and so his appointment. He 

 accompanied the Emperor on his visit here afew 

 years ago, and lionised him through the Birming- 

 ham district ; or, at any rate, gave a great many 

 orders to the ironfounders for bridges, &c., for 



