Jan. 14. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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This arrangement will be found exceedingly useful for 

 damping evenly cardboard and printed positives when 

 they are intended to be mounted, so as to ensure their 

 perfect flatness. 



It is quite immaterial whether the paper is floated 

 on a solution or applied with a glass rod. If a very 

 few sheets are to be manipulated upon, then, for eco- 

 nomy, the glass rod is preferable ; but if several, the 

 floating has the advantage, because it ensures the most 

 even application. I sent you a short paragraph 

 (Vol. ix., p. 32.) showing how we may be deceived 

 in water-marks upon paper; and when we are suppos- 

 ing ourselves to be using a paper of a particular date, 

 in fact we are not doing so. 



I would also caution your photographic correspon- 

 dents from being deceived in the quality of a paper by 

 the exceeding high gloss which is given it by extra 

 hot-pressing. This is very pleasing to the eye, and 

 would be a great advantage if the paper were to remain 

 dry ; but in the various washings and soakings which 

 it undergoes in the several processes before the per- 

 fect picture is formed, the artificial surface is entirely 

 removed, and it is only upon a paper of a natural firm 

 and even make that favourable results will be procured. 



H. W. Diamond. 



Turner's Paper. — There is great difficulty in pro- 

 curing good paper of Turner's make ; he having lately 

 undertaken a contract for Government in making 

 paper for the new stamps, the manufacture of paper 

 for photographic purposes has been to him of little 

 importance. In fact, this observation, of the little im- 

 portance of photographic compared to other papers, 

 applies to all our great paper-makers, who have it in 

 their power to make a suitable article. Mr. Towgood 

 of St. Neots has been induced to manufacture a batch 

 expressly for photography ; but we regret to say that, 

 although it is admirably adapted for albumenizing and 

 printing positives, it is not favourable for iodizing, 

 less so than his original make for ordinary purposes. 

 All manufacturers, in order to please the eye, use 

 bleaching materials, which deteriorate the paper che- 

 mically. They should be thoroughly impressed with 

 the truth, that colour is of little consequence. A bad- 

 coloured paper is of no importance ; it is the extraneous 

 substances in the paper itself which do the mischief. 



Ed. 



A Practical Photographic Query. »— I have never had 

 a practical lesson on photogiHJfll^. I have worked it 

 out as far as I could myself, and I have derived much 

 information in reading the pages of " N. & Q.," so that 

 now I consider myself (although we are all apt to 

 flatter ourselves) an average good manipulator. Inde- 

 pendently of the information you have afforded me, I 

 have read all the works upon photography which I 

 could procure; and as the most extensive one is that 

 by Mr. Robert Hunt, I went to the Exhibition of the 

 Photographic Society just opened, thinking I might 

 there see his works, and gain that information from 

 an inspection of them which I desired. My disap- 

 pointment was great on finding that Mr. Hunt does 

 not exhibit, nor have I been able to see any of his 

 specimens elsewhere. May I ask if Mr. Hunt ever 



attempts anything practically, or is it to the theory of 

 photography alone that he directs his attention ? 



I begin to fear, unless he lets a little of each go 

 hand-in-hand, that he will mislead some of us ama- 

 teurs, although I am quite sure unintentionally ; for 

 personally I much respect him, having a high opinion of 

 his scientific attainments. 



A Reader of all Books on Photography. 



3EUj)Itetf to fflinat <&utxic&. 



"Service is no Inheritance" (Vol. viii., p. 587. ; 

 Vol. ix., p. 20.). — P. C. S. -S. confesses that he is 

 vulgar enough to take great delight in Swift's 

 Directions to Servants, a taste which he had once 

 the good fortune of hearing avowed by no less a 

 man than Sir W. Scott himself. G. M. T., who 

 (Vol. viii., p. 587.) quotes the Waverley Novels for 

 the use of the phrase " Service is no inheritance,'* 

 will therefore scarcely be surprised to find that it 

 occurs frequently in Swift's Directions, and es- 

 pecially in those to the " Housemaid," chap. x. 

 {quod vide). P. C. S. S. 



Francis Browne (Vol. viii., p. 639.). — It is not 

 stated in the general pedigrees when or where he 

 died, whether single or married. His sister Eliza- 

 beth died unmarried, Nov. 27, 1662 ; and his elder 

 brother, Sir Henry Browne of Kiddington, in 

 1689. A reference to their wills, if proved, might 

 afford some information if he, Francis, survived 

 either of these dates. The will of Sir Henry 

 Knollys, of Grove Place, Hants, the grandfather, 

 might be referred to with the same view, and 

 the respective registers of Kiddington and Grove 

 Place. G. 



Catholic Bible Society (Vol. viii., p. 494.). — 

 Mb. Cotton will find some account of this So- 

 ciety (the only one I know of) in Bishop Milner's 

 Supplementary Memoirs of the English Catholics, 

 published in the year 1820, p. 239. It published 

 a stereotype edition of the New Testament with- 

 out the usual distinction of verses, and very few 

 notes. The whole scheme was severely reprobated 

 by Dr. Milner, on grounds stated by him in the 

 Appendix to the Memoirs, p. 302. The Society 

 soon expired, and no tracts or reports were, I 

 believe, ever published by it. The correspondence 

 between Mr. Charles Butler and Mr. Blair will 

 be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for the year 

 1814. S. 



Fitzroy Street. 



Legal Customs (Vol. ix., p. 20.). — The custom, 

 related by your correspondent Catjsidicus, of a 

 Chancery barrister receiving his first bag from 

 one of the king's counsel, reminds me that there 

 are many other legal practices, both obsolete and 

 extant, which it would be curious and entertain- 



