May 6. 1854.] 



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a foreign sense has been palmed upon it, viz. to 

 destroy. Job, no doubt, meant to say thus : 



" And after my skin has returned, this shall be; 

 And out of my flesh shall I see God." 



Thus the literal meaning demonstrates a connect- 

 ing link between verses 25 and 26. The authorised 

 version and the marginal reading seem to lack that 

 link: 



" And I know that my Redeemer liveth, 

 And He shall at length abide upon the earth." 



But would you know when this at length is to 

 take place ? It will come to pass when a shaking 

 of the dry bones shall take place, when bone to 

 bone shall be joined, when sinews and flesh shall 

 come upon them, and skin cover them above ; that 

 is, when the skeleton of my mutilated body shall 

 be raised a glorified body. In other words, — 



" And after my skin returned, this shall be ; 

 And out of my flesh shall I see God." 



The most ancient translators have evidently put 

 this construction upon the verse under consider- 

 ation. The Chaldee paraphrase runs thus : 



*n Nnn *3K>d nan&n -inn p 

 : : arba nn '-onx nDnoi 



" And after my skin is healed, this shall be ; 

 And out of my flesh shall I see the return of God." 



PIDHN does not mean here inflated, as some sup- 

 pose. The Syriac version translates the word 

 IQpJ by the word "p^riX, which means surround, 

 wind round. The Vulgate has the following ver- 

 sion of the patriarch's prophetic exclamation : 

 " Et rursum circumdabor pelle mea, 

 Et in carne mea videbo Deum meum." 



Jerome evidently knew not what to do with the 

 word riNT, and therefore omitted it. He might 

 have turned it to good account by translating it 

 erit hoc. 



The above note has been penned upwards of 

 five years ago, and I transcribe it now, without a 

 single alteration, for the benefit of Mr. C. Mans- 

 pieed Ingeeby and his friends. 



Moses Margoliouth. 

 Wybunbury, Nantwich. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Photographic Experiences. — We have received from 

 our valued correspondent Dr. Mansell, of Guernsey, 

 a suggestion to which we are happy to give publicity, 

 and to the promotion of which we shall be very glad to 

 lend the columns of " N. & Q." Our photographic 

 readers are probably aware that the Talbotype process 

 is increasing in favour; we have recorded Dr. Dia- 

 mond's strong testimony to its advantages. Mr. 

 Llewellyn has just described his process (which is 

 strikingly similar) in the Photographic Journal; and in 



a recent number of La Lumiire the Vicomte Vigier 

 confirms the views of our countrymen. Dr. Mansell, 

 who has given our readers the benefit of his experience, 

 well remarks that in all his acquaintance with physical 

 science, he knows nothing more remarkable than that 

 Mr. Fox Talbot should not only have discovered this 

 beautiful process, but likewise have given it to the 

 world (in 1841) in so perfect a form, that the innu- 

 merable experiments of a dozen years have done 

 nothing essential to improve it, and the best manipu- 

 lators of the day can add nothing to it. It is, however, 

 with a view to testing some of the points in which 

 photographers differ, so as to establish which are best, 

 that Dr. Mansell suggests, that a table giving, 



1. The time of exposure in the camera, in a bright 



May sun, 



2. The locality, 



3. The iodizement, 



4. The maker of the paper, 



5. The diameter of the diaphragm, 



6. Its distance from the lens, and 



7. The diameter, focal length, and maker of the 



lens, 



would, if carefully and honestly stated by some twenty 

 or thirty photographers, be extremely valuable. Of 

 this there can be little doubt, and we hope that our 

 scientific photographic friends will respond to this 

 suggestion. We for our parts are ready to receive 

 any such communications, and will, at the end of the 

 month, collate and arrange them in such form as may 

 best exhibit the results. It is obvious that, in a matter 

 of such a nature, vie at least should be furnished with 

 the names of our correspondents. 



The Ceroleine Process. — The unfavourable state of 

 the weather has prevented me from making many ex- 

 periments as to the value of the process given in your 

 234th Number, but I have seen enough to convince me 

 that it will effect a great saving of trouble, and be 

 more sensitive than any modification of Le Gray's 

 process that has yet been published. It will, however, 

 be rather more expensive, and, in the hands of persons 

 unaccustomed to chemical manipulations, rather diffi- 

 cult ; but the solutions once made, the waxing process 

 is delightfully easy. William Pumphrey. 



On preserving the Sensitiveness of Collodion Plates. — 

 The Philosophical Magazine of the present month con- 

 tains a very important article by Messrs. Spiller and 

 Crookes upon this great desideratum in photographic 

 practice. We have heard from a gentleman of con- 

 siderable scientific attainments, that, from the few ex- 

 periments which he had then made, he is convinced 

 that the plan is quite feasible. We of course refer our 

 readers to the paper itself for fuller particulars as to 

 the reasoning which led the writers to their successful 

 experiment, and for an enumeration of the many ad- 

 vantages which may result from their discovery. 

 Their process is as follows : 



" The plate, coated with collodion (that which we 

 employ contains iodide, bromide, and chloride of am- 

 monium, in about equal proportions), is made sensitive 

 by immersion in the ordinary solution of nitrate of 



