Feb. 11. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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back, it is better to place on the board a clean sheet of 

 ordinary paper for every picture. It is very important 

 to have the glass, in which the gallo-nitrate is made, 

 chemically clean ; every time it is used, it should be 

 washed with strong nitric acid, and then with distilled 

 water. 



To develop : — Pin the paper on the board as before ; 

 rapidly brush over it a solution of gallo-nitrate, as 

 used to excite. As soon as the picture appears, in 

 about a minute, pour on a saturated solution of gallic 

 acid abundantly, and keep it from pooling with the 

 brush, using it with a very light, hand. In about ten 

 minutes the picture is fully developed. If very slow 

 in coming out, a few drops of pure aceto-nitrate brushed 

 over the surface will rapidly bring out the picture ; 

 but this is seldom required, and it will sometimes 

 brown the whites. It is better, as soon as the gallic 

 acid has been applied, to put the picture away from 

 the light of the candle in a box or drawer, there to 

 develop quietly, watching its progress every three or 

 four minutes ; the surface is to be refreshed by a few 

 light touches of the brush, adding more gallic acid if 

 necessary. Many good negatives are spoiled by over- 

 fidgetting in this part of the process. When the pic- 

 ture is fully out, wash, &c. as usual ; the iodide of 

 silver is rapidly removed by a saturated solution of 

 hyposulphite of soda, which acts much less on the 

 weaker blacks than it does if diluted. 



If the picture will not develop, from too short ex- 

 posure in the camera, a solution of pyrogallic acid, as 

 Dr. Diamond recommends, after the gallic acid has 

 done its utmost, greatly increases the strength of the 

 blacks : it slightly reddens the whites, but not in the 

 same ratio that it deepens the blacks. 



After the first wash with gallo-nitrate, it is essential 

 to develop these strongly iodized papers with gallic 

 acid only ; the half-and-half mixture of aceto-nitrate 

 and gallic acid, which works well with weaker papers, 

 turns these red. 



The paper I use is Whatman's 1849. Turner's 

 paper, Chafford Mills, if two or three years old, an- 

 swers equally well. M. L. Mansell, A.B. M.D. 



Guernsey, Jan. 30, 1854. 



SepltoS ta Jfitnar tiluztiet. 



Ned o" the Todding (Vol. ix., p. 36.). — In an- 

 swer to the inquiry of W. T., I beg to say that he 

 will find the thrilling narrative of poor Ned of 

 the Toddin in Southey's Espriella's Letters from 

 England, vol. ii. p. 42. ; but 1 am not aware of any 

 lines with the above heading, by which I presume 

 W. T. to be in search of some poetical rendering 

 of the tale. F. C. H. 



Hour-glasses and Inscriptions on old Pulpits 

 (Vol. ix., pp. 31. 64.). — In St. Edmund's Church, 

 South Burlingham, stands an elegant pulpit of the 

 fifteenth century, painted red and blue, and re- 

 lieved with gilding. On it there still remains an 

 old hour-glass, though such appendages were not 

 introduced till some centuries probably after the 



erection of this pulpit. The following legend goes 

 round the upper part of this pulpit, in the old 

 English character : 



" Inter natos mulierum non surrexit major Johanne 

 Baptista." 



F. C. H. 



Table-turning (Vol. ix., pp. 39. 88.). — I have 

 not Ammianus Marcellinus within reach, but, if I 

 am not mistaken, after the table had been got into 

 motion, the oracle was actually given by means of 

 a ring. This being held over, suspended by a 

 thread, oscillated or leaped from one to another of 

 the letters of the alphabet which were engraved oa 

 the edge of the table, or that which covered it. 

 The passage would not occupy many lines, and I 

 think that many readers of " 1ST. & Q." would be 

 interested if some one of its learned correspondents 

 would furnish a copy of it, with a close English 

 translation. N. B. 



"Firm was their faith" (Vol. ix., p. 17.). — 

 Grateful as I am to all who think well enough of 

 my verses to discuss them in " N. & Q.," yet I 

 cannot permit them to be incorrectly quoted or 

 wrongly revised. If, as F. R. R. alleges, I had 

 written in the third line of the stanza quoted — 

 " with firm and trusting hands" — then I should 

 have repeated the same epithet (firm) twice in 

 three lines. Whereas I wrote, as a reference^ to 

 Echoes from Old Cornwall, p. 58., will establish, 

 stern. R. S. Hawker. 



The Wilbraham Cheshire MS. (Vol. viii., 

 pp. 270. 303.). — With regard to this highly curious 

 MS., I am enabled to state that it is still preserved 

 at Delamere House, the seat of George Fortescue 

 Wilbraham, Esq., by whom it has been continued 

 down to the present time. Mr. Wilbraham has 

 answered this Query himself, but from some acci- 

 dent his reply did not appear in the pages of 

 " N. & Q." I therefore, having recently seen the 

 MS., take this opportunity of assuring your 

 querist of its existence. 



W. J. Bernhard Smith. 



Temple. 



Mousehunt (Vol. viii., pp. 516. 606. ; Vol. ix., 

 p. 65.). — This animal is well known by this name 

 in Norfolk, where the marten is very rare, if not 

 entirely unknown. The Norfolk mousehunt, or 

 mousehunter, is the Mustela vulgains. (Vide Forby's 

 Vocab. of East Anglia, vol. ii. p. 222., who errs, 

 however, in calling it the stoat, but says that it is 

 the " smallest animal of the weasel tribe, and 

 pursues the smallest prey.") It would be of much 

 use, both to naturalists and others, if our zoological 

 works would give the popular provincial names of 

 animals and birds; collectors might then more 

 easily procure specimens from labourers, &c. I 

 have formed a list of Norfolk names for birds, 



