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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 237. 



I have also seen a sort of parody upon the above 

 applied to Waterloo : 



« My first, tho' it's clear, 



Will oft troubl'd appear, 

 My next 's an amusement so clever; 



My whole is a name, 



Recorded by fame, 

 To the glory of England for ever." 



M. J. C. 



If the jeu cT esprit on the above name be worthy 

 of preservation, the more correct version of it is 

 as follows : 



" My first is the emblem of purity, 

 My second is used for security ; 

 My whole is a name, 

 Which, if I had the same, 

 I should blush to hand down to futurity." 



The authorship was ascribed (I believe with 

 truth) to a lady of the name of Belson. M. (2) 



The following is the correct version : 



" My first is an emblem of purity, 

 My second the means of security ; 



My whole is a name, 



Which, if mine were the same, 

 I should blush to hand down to futurity." 



N. L. J. 



General Whitelocke died at Clifton, in his house 

 in Princes Buildings. Anon. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Gravel/i/ Wax Negatives. — The only remedy I am 

 acquainted with is to use the paper within twenty-four 

 hours after excitement. I have tried the methods of 

 Messrs. Crookes, Fenton, and How ; in every case I 

 was equally annoyed with gravel, if excited beyond 

 that time ; in fact, I believe all the good wax negatives 

 have been taken within twelve hours. The Rev. Wm. 

 Collings, who has produced such excellent wax ne- 

 gatives, 24 in. x 18 (several were sent to the late Ex- 

 hibition of the Photographic Society), informs me the 

 above is quite his experience, and that he excites his 

 papers for the day early in the morning. The cause 

 lies, I believe, in the want of homogeneity of the waxed 

 paper, arising from unevenness in the structure of the 

 paper exaggerated by the transparency of the wax, 

 partly, perhaps, from a semi-crystallizing of the wax in 

 cooling, and also from its being adulterated with 

 tallow, resin, &c. As a consequence of this, the paper 

 is filled with innumerable hard points; the iodizing 

 and exciting solutions are unequally absorbed, and the 

 actinic influence acting more on the weak points, pro- 

 duces under gallic acid a speckled appearance, if de- 

 composition has gone to any length in the exciting 

 nitrate by keeping. The ceroleine process, by its power 

 of penetrating, will, I hope, produce an homogeneous 

 paper, and go far to remove this annoyance. 



In answer to a former Query by Mr. Hele, What- 

 man's paper of 1849 is liglfrly sized, and not hard 



rolled, so that twenty minutes' washing in repeated 

 water sufficed to remove the iodide of potassium, and if 

 long soaked the paper became porous, often letting 

 the gallic acid through in the development. I have 

 lately been trying Turner's and Sandford's papers ; 

 they require three or four hours' repeated washings to 

 get rid of the salts, being very hard rolled. Many 

 negatives on Turner's paper, especially if weak, ex- 

 hibit a structural appearance like linen, the unequal 

 density gives almost exactly the same gravelly cha- 

 racter as wax, as the positive I inclose, taken from 

 such a negative, shows. Not only ought collodion to 

 be "structureless," as Mr. Shadbolt well expresses it, 

 but likewise all the other substrata of iodide of silver. 



T. L. Mansell. 

 Guernsey. 



Photographic Experience. — The plan proposed by 

 Dr. Mansell, in the last Number of " N. & Q.," for a 

 comparison of photographic experiences, will, I am 

 sure, prove of much practical advantage ; and I there- 

 fore lose no time in filling up the table published in 

 your paper : 



1. Eight minutes' exposure. 



2. South Wales. 



3. Mr. Talbot's original receipt. 



4. Turner. 



5. jj inch. 



6. 2 inches. 



7. 3 inches. Focal length, 1 7 inches. Maker, Ross. 



I would also suggest that the character of the object 

 copied should be included in the above table. My 

 answer supposes a light-coloured building of an ordi- 

 nary sandstone colour. A view comprising foliage 

 would require a much longer time for its full develop- 

 ment. In working on the sea-coast, I find that the 

 dark slate rocks of north Cornwall require an expo- 

 sure in the camera half as long again as the blue moun- 

 tain limestone cliffs of South Wales, which abound in 

 actinic power. J. D. Llewelyn. 



Pen-ller-gaer. 



&eplit£ ta ^Itnor $}ucvit&. 



Turkish Language (Vol. ix., p. 352.). — Your 

 correspondent Hassan, who would much gratify 

 our friends the Turks if he would spell his sig- 

 nature with one s only, will find the object of his 

 inquiry in a little book just published by Clowes, 

 Military Publisher, Charing Cross, Turkish and 

 English Words and Phrases, for the Use of the 

 British Army and Navy in the East, price Is. 

 The pronunciation is given in the Roman cha- 

 racter, and according to the plainest English rules. 



OsMANLI. 



Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke's Charts of the 

 Black Sea (Vol. ix., p. 132.). — A reply respecting 

 these important Charts, and. their value, was given 

 by the First Lord of the Admiralty in the House 

 of Commons on March 6, in consequence of an 

 inquiry made by Mr. French. Sir James Graham 



