May 5. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Positive Proofs from Waxed-paper, Collodion, and other 

 Negatives ; and as it enters into very minute details on 

 the selection of paper — albumenizing, salting, and ex- 

 citing it — its exposure — the preparation of colouring 

 baths — the fixing the pictures, and the best method of 

 mounting and displaj'ing them, — there is little doubt 

 that the work will have a rapid and extensive sale. 



3Ir. Merritfs Camera with Roller. — I trouble you with 

 this, merely to assure you that I, last year, invented a 

 means almost precisely similar to that explained in 

 " N. & Q.," No. 28G., by Captain Barr, but, as I believe, 

 somewhat more simple, inasmuch as I use a roller which 

 by one turn winds oflf the entire picture, and brings another 

 into its place. By this you will see that the work is 

 more simply performed, and the strip of calico not needed. 

 I send this, believing that should any one desire this 

 form, mine might save some trouble, as it is certainly 

 more convenient, and, by less rolling, less likely to injure 

 the picture. T. E. Mekkitt. 



Maidstone. 



Photographic Exhibition. — Such of our readers as are 

 admirers of photography, and who might, owing to the 

 early period at which it closed, not have had an oppor- 

 tunity of viewing the collection exhibited by the Photo- 

 graphic Society at the beginning of the year, will do well 

 to devote a few hours to an examination of the specimens 

 now on view at the Photographic Institution in New Bond 

 Street. Specimens of the masterpieces of the best En- 

 glish and Foreign Photographers are there collected ; and 

 a very cursor}' inspection will satisfy the visitor of the 

 progress which this interesting and valuable Art is still 

 making. 



Solution to preserve Positive Impressions (From "La 

 Lumiilre," April 7th, 1855). — An English amateur who 

 has lately arrived from Italy, Mr. Gotch Hepburn, a 

 member of the Photographic Society of London, has been 

 kind enough to give us the following process, which has 

 been communicated to him, as producing excellent results, 

 by Mr. Anderson, to whom we owe a series of admirable 

 views of Rome. Although this process is without doubt 

 already known to some of our readers, we think it useful 

 to publish it, to induce photographers to make use of it. 



" Make, with the aid of heat, a saturated solution with 

 white wax in spirits of turpentine ; let it cool, when a 

 certain quantity of wax will be precipitated, and pour off 

 the clear part for use. 



"After the picture has been fixed by the ordinary 

 means, dry it perfectly at the fire, otherwise it will not 

 absorb equally ; then spread the solution on it with a 

 large paint-brush, using plenty of the liquid. When the 

 paper is well impregnated (that is to say, at the end of 

 one or two minutes), remove the excess of the liquid 

 with a dry brush, and let the picture dry, laid flat for 

 several hours. When the picture is dry, suspend it, to 

 get rid of the smell of turpentine. Mr. Anderson, of 

 Rome, who practised this process with success, thinks 

 that alcohol does not dissolve enough wax; but all other 

 liquids which will dissolve a great quantity of wax may 

 be substituted for turpentine. The onlj' disadvantage of 

 this method is, that it is obliged to be kept several days 

 that the odour may completely disperse." 



lR.epliti to Minat ^xietiti. 



Book-plates (Vol. xi., p. 265.). — The Queries 

 of your correspondent Book-plate escaped my 

 attention till a fortnight and more after their 

 publication. I now reply, that I hope soon to 

 make public the little that I have to relate about 

 your correspondent and his family. Also, that in 

 one of the book-plates of the oldest ascertained 

 date in England, namely, of the year 1698, the 

 wife's coat is given with the husband's. The 

 book-plate gives this legend, "Francis Gwyn of 



Lansanor, in the county of Glamorgan, and. 



of Ford- Abby, in the county of Devon, Esq., 



1698." The coat is, Per pale az. and gules, three 

 lions rampant arg. ; and over all, on an esc. of 

 pretence, Quarterly one and four, arg. a chevron 

 sab., in chief a label of three points gules ; two 

 and three, arg. a chevron between three mullets 

 gules ; the escutcheon of pretence being for the 

 Lady Margaret, daughter, and at length sole 

 heiress of Edmund Prideaux, son of Prideaux, 

 Attorney-General under the Long Parliament. 



If I understand the last Queries of your corre- 

 spondent, they are answered by the instance of 

 the book-plate which I have recited. It is scarcely 

 necessary to add, that the marshalling the wife's 

 coat with her husband's is the universal practice 

 of all heralds in all countries. I hope, if 1 live to 

 publish my humble attempt at systematising book- 

 plates, that I shall satisfy your correspondent, and 

 have the reward of adding him to my collection. 



Daniel Paksons. 



Inckle (Vol. X., p. 398.). — Inckle, or beggar's 

 inckle, is a kind of coarse tape used by cooks to 

 secure meat previous to being spitted, and farriers 

 to tie round horses' feet, &c. I have found it said 

 of persons very friendly, " They are as thick as 

 inckleweavers." J. S. (3) 



Epigram on Sir John Leach (Vol. xi., p. 300.). 

 — Sir John Leach was at one time, by the quizzers 

 of that day, called "Lady Leach." Upon his 

 accepting the judicial office to which this epigram 

 refers, Sir William Scott (Lord Howell), making 

 that peculiar up and down motion of the head 

 with which he prefaced and accompanied his motSy 

 quoted from Virgil, — 



" Varium et mutabile semper 

 Foemina." 

 Canning, referring to this peculiar motion, and his 

 portly person, said, " Sir William Scott was like 

 a turtle in a. martingale" F. W. J. 



" Strain at agnat" (StMatt. xxiii. 24.) (Vol. xi., 

 p. 298.). — I cannot pretend to determine when 

 the word at was substituted for out in the Pro- 

 testant version of the New Testament. I find at 

 in the authorised edition of 1628. But what I 

 wish to observe is, that the English Catholic Tes- 

 tament has "strain out;" which is not only con- 



