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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 230. 



ventam osseam asperam arteriam." — Cardanus, lib. xiv., 

 De rerum variet., cap. 76. 



In the Newgate Calendar, or Malefactors' 

 Bloody Register, vol. ii. p. 233., is the account of 

 Margaret Dickson, who was executed for child- 

 murder at Edinburgh, June 19, 1728, with an 

 engraving of her " rising from her coffin near 

 Edinburgh, as she was carrying from the place of 

 execution in order for interment." 



" By the Scottish law," says the author, " every 

 person on whom the judgment of the court lias been 

 executed has no more to suffer, but must be for ever 

 discharged ; and the executed person is dead at law, so 

 that the marriage is dissolved. This was exactly the 

 case with Margaret Dickson, for the king's advocate 

 could not pursue her any farther, but filed a bill in the 

 High Court of Justiciary against the sheriff for not 

 seeing the judgment executed. And her husband 

 being a good-natured man, was publicly married to 

 her within a fevr days after the affair happened." 



Zeus. 



For the information of your correspondent I 

 send an extract from the Gentleman's Magazine 

 for February, 1767 : 



" Saturday 24th (Jan.). — One Patrick Redmond 

 having been condemned at Cork, in Ireland, to be 

 hanged for a street robbery, he was accordingly ex- 

 ecuted, and hung upwards of twenty-eight minutes, 

 when the mob carried off the body to a place appointed, 

 where he was, after five or six hours, actually reco- 

 vered by a surgeon, and who made the incision in his 

 windpipe called bronchotomy, which produced the de- 

 sired effect. The poor fellow has since received his 

 pardon, and a genteel collection has been made for 

 him." 



C.R. 



I would refer your correspondent 2., who has 

 put a Query whether persons who have suffered 

 execution by hanging have outlived the infliction, 

 to a case of a woman named Anne Green, which 

 appears to be authenticated upon the most un- 

 equivocal testimony of two very estimable au- 

 thors. The event to which I allude is described 

 in Dr. Robert Plot's History of Oxfordshire, folio, 

 Oxford, 1705, p. 201.; and also in the Physico- 

 Theology of Rev. W. Derham, F.R.S., 3rd edit., 

 8vo., London, 1714, p. 157. The above-mentioned 

 Anne Green was executed at Oxford, December 14, 

 1650. 



I will not trespass upon your space, which 

 appears pretty well occupied, with a lengthened 

 detail from the authors pointed out, as their 

 works are to be found in most libraries ; and 

 thinking Polonius's observation that " brevity is 

 the soul of wit " may be more extensively applied 

 than to what relates to fancy and imagination. I 

 would, however, crave one word, which is, that 

 you would suggest to your correspondents gene- 

 rally, that in referring to works they would give, 



as distinctly as possible, the heads of the title, the 

 name of the author, the edition, if more than one, 

 the place of publication, date, and page. I have 

 experienced much loss of time from incorrect and 

 imperfect references, not to mention complete dis- 

 appointment in many instances, which I trust may 

 plead my apology for this remark.* r. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



A Stereoscopic Note. — I possess a small volume en- 

 titled A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural 

 Things, by T. H., B. B., Fellow of the Royal Society, 

 1688. " To which are subjoined, by way of Appendix, 

 some uncommon observations about vitiated sight." 

 In this strange appendix, one of the uncommon ob- 

 servations is worth the notice of your correspondents 

 who write on stereoscopic subjects. I give you an ex- 

 tract from it : 



" It has been of late the opinion of very learned men, 

 that though both our eyes are open, and turned to- 

 wards an object, yet 'tis but one of them at a time that 

 is effectually employed in giving us the representation 

 of it : which opinion, in this place where I am writing 

 but observations, it were not proper to discuss, espe- 

 cially because what is suppos'd to be observed will 

 not always uniformly happen, but may vary in par- 

 ticular persons according to their several customs, and 

 the constitution of their eyes : for I have, by an experi- 

 ment purposely made, several times found, that my 

 two eyes together see an object in another situation 

 than either of them apart would do." And in giving 

 instances for and against binocular vision, the author 

 says : " A yet more considerable instance of such mis- 

 takes I afterwards had from a noble person, who, 

 having in a fight, where he play'd the hero, had one of 

 his eyes strangely shot out by a musquet bullet, that 

 carne out at his mouth, answered me, that not only he 

 could not well pour drink out of one vessel into another, 

 but had broken many glasses by letting them fall out 

 of his hand, when he thought he had put them into 

 another's, or set them down upon a table." The whole 

 book is a very curious one, and I should be obliged if 

 the Editor of " N. & Q." could tell me who T. H. 

 was?f J. Lawson Sisson. 



Edingthorpe. 



Photographic Query. — I think many amateur pho- 

 tographers would be thankful for plain and simple 

 directions how to mount their positives on cardboard. 

 Would the Editor of" N. & Q,." assist us in this? 



J. L. S. 



Deepening Collodion Negatives. — I have lately been 

 trying a method of deepening collodion negatives, so 

 as to render instantaneous impressions capable of being 

 printed from, which I have found to answer admirably; 



[* As our pages are frequently consulted for literary 

 purposes, the suggestion of I\ is extremely valuable, 

 and we trust his hints wall be adopted by our nume- 

 ous correspondents. — En.] 



(f The Hon. Robert Boyle.] 



