June 24. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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take an interest in the collodion process, the desirable- 

 ness of making a subscription to aid Mr. Henderson 

 in his defence against the proceedings commenced by 

 Mr. Talbot, to restrain him (and through him, no 

 doubt, all others) from taking collodion portraits.* 



It does not appear just that one person should bear 

 the whole expense of a defence in which so many are 

 interested ; and I have no doubt that if a subscription 

 be set on foot, many photographers will willingly con- 

 tribute. A subscription, besides its material aid to 

 Mr. Henderson, would also serve to show that public 

 opinion is opposed to such absurd and unjust attempts 

 at monopoly. 



It is difficult to imagine how a claim can be es- 

 tablished to a right in an invention made many years 

 subsequent to the date of the patent under which the 

 claim is made — not only made by another person, but 

 differing so widely in principle from the patent pro- 

 cess. The advertisement in the Athenceum of Saturday 

 last (June 10) shows plainly that it is intended, if 

 possible, to prevent the production of portraits on col- 

 lodion by any person not licensed by Mr. Talbot ; and 

 the harshness of this proceeding, after the process has 

 been in public use for several years, needs no com- 

 ment. H. C. Sands. 



SO. Spring Gardens, Bradford. 



[We insert this communication, because we believe 

 it gives expression to a sentiment shared by many. Sub- 

 scriptions in favour of M. La Roche, whose case stands 

 first for trial, are received by Messrs. Home and Thorn- 

 thwaite. Our correspondent does not, however, ac- 

 curately represent the caution issued by Mr. F. Talbot's 

 solicitors, which is against "making and selling" pho- 

 tographic portraits by the collodion process. When 

 giving up his patent to the public, Mr. Fox Talbot re- 

 served " in the hands of his own licensees the appli- 

 cation of the invention to the taking photographic 

 portraits for sale," and we have always regretted that 

 Mr. F. Talbot should have made such reservation, 

 founded, as it is, upon a very questionable right. — Ed. 

 " N. & Q."] 



3foj>It«? to fflinav e&uerta*. 



Vandyking (Vol. ix., p. 452.). — Your cor- 

 respondent P. C. S. S. asks the meaning of the 

 term Vandyking, in the following passage of a 

 letter from Secretary Windebanke to the Lord 

 Deputy Wentworth, dated Westminster, Nov. 20, 

 1633, the Lord Deputy being then in Ireland : — 



" Now, my Lord, for my own observations of your 

 carriage since you had the conduct of affairs there [in 

 Ireland], because you press me so earnestly, I shall 

 take the boldness to deliver myself as freely. 



" First, though while we had the happiness and 

 honour to have your assistance here at the Council 

 Board, you made many ill faces with your pen (par- 

 don, I beseech your Lordship, the over free censure of 

 your Vandyking), and worse, oftentimes, with your 

 speeches, especially in the business of the Lord Fal- 



* The words of the advertisement are " making a?id 

 selling. " 



conberg, Sir Thomas Gore, Vermuyden, and others ; 

 yet I understand you make worse there in Ireland, and 

 there never appeared a worse face under a cork upon 

 a bottle, than your Lordship hath caused some to make 

 in disgorging such church livings as their zeal had 

 eaten up." — Strafford's Letters, vol. i. p. 161. 



This passage, as well as what follows, is written 

 in a strain of banter, and is intended to compliment 

 the great Lord Deputy under the pretence of a 

 free censure of his conduct. The first part of 

 the second paragraph evidently alludes to Went- 

 worth's habit of drawing faces upon paper when 

 he was sitting at the Council Table, and the word 

 Vandyking is used in the sense of portrait- painting. 

 Vandyck was born in 1599 ; he visited England 

 for a short time in 1620, and in 1632 he came to 

 England permanently, was lodged by the king, 

 and knighted ; in the following year he received a 

 pension of 2001. for life, and the title of painter to 

 his Majesty. It was therefore quite natural that 

 Windebanke should, in November, 1633, use the 

 term Vandyking as equivalent to portrait-painting. 



In the latter part of the same paragraph, the 

 allusion is to the wry faces, which the speeches 

 of this imperious member of council sometimes 

 caused. Can any of your correspondents explain 

 the expression, " a worse face under a cork upon 

 a bottle ? " L. 



Monteith (Vol. ix., p. 452.). — The Monteith 

 was a kind of punch- bowl (sometimes of delf 

 ware) with scallops or indentations in the brim, 

 the object of which was to convert it into a con- 

 venient tray for bringing in the glasses. These 

 were of wine-glass shape, and being placed with 

 the brims downwards, and radiating from the 

 centre, and with the handles protruding through 

 the indentations in the bowl, were easily carried, 

 without much jingling or risk of breakage. Of 

 course the bowl was empty of liquor at the time. 



A. M. and M. A. (Vol. ix., p. 475.). — Juveena, 

 M. A., is certainly wrong in stating that " Masters 

 of Arts of Oxford are styled ' M. A.,' in contra- 

 distinction to the Masters of Arts in everv other 

 university." A. B., A. M., are the proper initials 

 for Baccalaureus and Magister Artium, and should 

 therefore only be used when the name is in Latin. 

 B.A. and M.A. are those for Bachelor and Master 

 of Arts, and are the only ones to be used where 

 the name is expressed in English. Thus John 

 Smith, had he taken his first degree in Arts at 

 any university, might indicate the fact by signing 

 John Smith, B.A., or Johannes S., A.B. If he 

 put John Smith, A.B., a doubt might exist 

 whether he were not an able-bodied seaman, for 

 that is implied by A.B. attached to an English 

 name. The editor of Farindon's Sei-mons, who is, 

 I believe, a Dissenter, styles himself the Reverend 

 T. Jackson, S.T.P., i.e. Sacrosanctae Theologian 



