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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 221. 



have been split, would in all probability have been 

 available, and printed well. 



I was sorry to see in " N. & Q." (Vol. viii., p. 604.) 

 an article under this head which went the round of 

 the papers several months ago. Anything more im- 

 practicable and ridiculously absurd than the directions 

 there given can hardly be imagined : " cylinders of 

 amber !" or " cylinders of metallic amalgam 1 !" *' excited 

 in the usual manner," &c. I presume electrical excita- 

 tion is intended. Though, how cylinders of metal are 

 to receive electrical excitation, and to have sufficient 

 attractive power over a sheet of paper as to rend it 

 asunder, would be a problem which I believe even a 

 Faraday could not solve : neither would excited glass 

 cylinders effect the object any better ; or if they could, 

 it would be erecting a wheel to break a fly upon. 



The whole proposition must originally have been a 

 hoax : in fact, we live in a day when the masses of the 

 people are easily induced to believe that electricity can 

 do everything. 



Another, and far more feasible plan has been pro- 

 posed (" N. & Q,.," Vol. viii., p. 413.), viz. to paste the 

 paper to be split between two pieces of calico or linen ; 

 and when perfectly dry, part them. One half, it is 

 said, will adhere to each piece of the linen, and may 

 afterwards be obtained or set free from the linen by 

 soaking. 



I have tried this with partial, but not satisfactory 

 success. It will be remembered that the results of the 

 true process were some years ago exhibited before a 

 scientific company (I think at the Royal Institution), 

 when a page of the London Illustrated News was first 

 exhibited in its usual condition, printed on both sides ; 

 and was then taken to an adjoining apartment, and in 

 a short time (perhaps a quarter of an hour) re-exhibited 

 to the company split into two lamina?, each being per- 

 fect. Neither the pasting plan, nor the electrical gam- 

 mon, could have effected this. I hope some of your 

 readers (they are a legion) will confer on photogra- 

 phers the favour of informing them of this art. 



COKELY. 



Curling of Iodized Paper. — The difficulty which 

 your correspondent C. E- F. has met with, in iodizing 

 paper according to Da. Diamond's valuable and simple 

 process, may be easily obviated. 



I experienced the same annoyance of "curling up" 

 till it was suggested to me to damp the paper pre- 

 viously to floating it. I have since always adopted 

 this expedient, and find it answer perfectly. The 

 method I employ for damping it is to leave it for a 

 few hours previously to using it upon the bricks in my 

 cellar : and I have no doubt but that, if C. E. F. will 

 try the same plan, he will be equally satisfied with the 

 result. W. F. W. 



How the Glass Rod is used. — Would you be kind 

 enough to inform me how paper is prepared or excited 

 with the glass rod in the calotype process? Is the 

 solution first poured on the paper, and then equally 

 diffused over it with the rod ? Duthus. 



[The manner in which the glass rod is to be used 

 for exciting or developing is very simple, although 

 not easily described. The operator must provide him- 



self with some pieces of thin board, somewhat larger 

 than the paper intended to be used ; on one of these 

 two or three folds of blotting-paper are to be laid, and 

 on these the paper intended to be excited, and which is 

 to be kept steady by pins at the top and bottom right- 

 hand corners, and the forefinger of the left hand. The 

 operator, having ready in a small measure about thirty 

 drops of the exciting fluid, takes the glass rod in his 

 right hand, moves it steadily over the paper from the 

 right hand to the left, where he keeps it, while with 

 the left hand he pours the exciting fluid over the side of 

 the glass rod, and moving this to and fro once or twice 

 to secure an equal portion of the exciting fluid along 

 the whole length of the rod ; he then moves the rod 

 from left to right and back again, until he has ascer- 

 tained that the whole surface is covered, taking care 

 that none of the exciting fluid runs over the side of 

 the paper, as it is then apt to discolour the back of it. 

 When the whole surface has been thoroughly wetted, 

 the superfluous fluid is to be blotted off with a piece 

 of new blotting-paper.] 



&t$lit£ ta junior ^utvitS. 



Wooden Tombs and Effigies (Vol. viii., p. 604.). 

 — In addition to that mentioned by J. E. J., there 

 is a wooden chest in the centre of the chancel of 

 Burford Church, in the county of Salop, with a 

 figure in plated armour on the top ; the head 

 resting on a helmet supported by two angels, and 

 at the feet a lion crowned. An ornament of oak 

 leaves runs round the chest, at the ed^e. This 

 effigy is supposed to represent one of the Corn- 

 wall family, the ancient, but now extinct, barons 

 of Burford. As I am preparing, with a view to 

 publication, a history of this very ancient family, 

 with an account of the curious and interesting 

 monuments in Burford and other churches, I 

 should esteem it a favour if any of your corre- 

 spondents could furnish me with authentic in- 

 formation relative to any members of the family, 

 or of any memorials of them in other churches 

 than those of Worcestershire and Shropshire. 



J. B. Whitborne. 



Epitaph on Politian (Vol. viii., p. 537.). — Har- 

 wood's Alumni Etonenses, a.d. 1530, Hen. VIII., 

 p. 22. : 



" Edward Bovington was born at Burnham, and was 

 buried in the chapel. Some member of the College 

 made these lines on him : 



• Uiium caput tres linguas habet, 

 (Res mira !) Bovingtonus.' " 



This member must have seen Politian's epitaph. 



J. H. L. 



Defoe's Quotation from Baxter on Apparitions 

 (Vol. ix., p. 12.). — The story copied by Da. Mait- 

 land from Defoe's Life of Duncan Campbell, is 

 to be found nearly word for word in pp. 60, 61. of 



