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arc enabled to bear our testimony to its beautiful 

 results. We are glad to learn also, that there is a 

 probability that the admirers of photography may 

 soon be enabled to purchase specimens of the produc- 

 tions of this accomplished amateur, who is about to 

 return to the Pyrenees for the purpose of securing 

 photographic views of the splendid scenery and various 

 objects of interest which are to be found there. — 

 Ed. « N. & Q,"] 



Photographs, fyc. of the Crystal Palace. — All who 

 have visited the Photographic Institution, in New 

 Bond Street, must have admired the large photographic 

 views of the Crystal Palace, from collodion negatives 

 taken by Mb. Delamotte, who, combining the taste 

 of the artist with the skill of the photographer, has 

 succeeded in producing some most effective views of 

 this new Temple of Education. At Lord Rosse's soiree 

 on Saturday last, the closing one unfortunately of those 

 most agreeable reunions, Mr. Williams exhibited three 

 daguerreotypes, taken that morning, of the ceremony of 

 opening the Crystal Palace, which, although only about 

 three inches by five, contained some hundreds of figures. 

 The portraits of the Queen and the brilliant cortege 

 which surrounded her at the moment were strikingly 

 effective. 



Soluble Cotton. — In answer to the observations of 

 H. U. (Vol. ix„ p. 548.), I should imagine that the 

 nitrate of potash used was not thoroughly dried ; and 

 consequently, the amount of water used was in excess 

 of that directed. The temperature should be from 

 120° to 130° Fahr. And thermometers of a proper 

 construction (with the lower part of the scale to bend 

 up from the bulb) can be obtained in abundance at 

 from Is. to 2s. 6d. at several of the makers in Hatton 

 Garden or elsewhere. Geo. Shadbolt. 



Cameras At one of the earliest meetings of the 



Photographic Society, I suggested the use of papier 

 mache as a material for the construction of cameras, as 

 possessing nearly all the requisite qualities ; but there 

 is one serious objection to its application to this pur- 

 pose, its brittleness, as a smart blow is apt to snap it 

 like a biscuit. I think, however, upon the whole, 

 that if a peculiar kind of Honduras mahogany, such as 

 is used for coach panels, is adopted, the possessor would 

 never desire a change. It should be as plain as a piece 

 of deal, without the slightest beauty of grain, which is 

 a positive detriment to a camera, from the accom- 

 panying liability to warping. Geo. Shadbolt. 



%z$\it& ta Minor tELutviesl. 



Shakspeare Portrait (Vol. viii., p. 438.). — J. S. 

 Smith, in his Nollekins and his Times (vol. i. p. 26.), 

 has a passage referring to the portrait mentioned 

 by your correspondent : 



" Clarkson, the portrait painter, was originally a 

 coach-panel and sign painter; and he executed that 

 most elaborate one of Shakspeare, which formerly 

 hung across the street at the north-east corner of 

 Little Russell Street, in Drury Lane. The late Mr. 



Thomas Grignon informed me, that he had often heard 

 his father say, that this sign cost Jive hundred pounds ! 

 In my boyish days it was for many years exposed for 

 sale for a very trifling sum, at a broker's shop in 

 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. The late 

 Mr. Crace, of Great Queen Street, assured me that it 

 was in his early days a thing that country people 

 would stand and gaze at, and that that corner of the 

 street was hardly passable." 



Edwards, in his Anecdotes of Painters (p. 117.), 

 assigns the portrait to a different painter, Samuel 

 Wale, R.A. His account, however, being more 

 minute than Smith's, is worth transcribing : 



" Mr. Wale painted some signs ; the principal one 

 was a whole-length of Shakspeare, about five feet high, 

 which was executed for, and displayed before the door 

 of a public-house, the north-west corner of Little 

 Russell Street, in Drury Lane. It was enclosed in a 

 most sumptuous carved gilt frame, and suspended by 

 rich iron work ; but this splendid object of attraction 

 did not hang long before it was taken down, in con- 

 sequence of the act of parliament which passed for 

 paving, and also for removing the signs and other 

 obstructions in the streets of London. Such was the 

 total change of fashion, and the consequent disuse of 

 signs, that the above representation of our great dra- 

 matic poet was sold for a trifle to Mason the broker, in 

 Lower Grosvenor Street ; where it stood at his door 

 for several years, until it was totally destroyed by the 

 weather and other accidents." 



Edward F. Rimbauxt. 



"Aches" (Vol. ix., pp. 351. 409.). — Aches, as a 

 dissyllable, may be heard any day in Shropshire : 

 " My yead eaches" (my head aches) is no uncom- 

 mon complaint in reply to an inquiry about health. 

 Wm. Fraser, B.C.L. 



" Waestart" (Vol. ix., p. 349.).— The querist, I 

 humbly presume, is not a Yorkshireman himself; 

 or, probably, he would have at once resolved 

 waestart into the ungrammatical but natural in- 

 quiry, " Where ist' 'art ?" — ist 1 meaning are you, 

 thou being vulgarly used for you ; the h is elided 

 in hurt, the u in 'urt being pronounced as a, 

 changing the vowel, as is very common among 

 the illiterate. For instance, church is often called 

 charch by those who live a little to the north-west ; 

 and person, where the e is almost equivalent to 

 the soft u in sound, is made into parson! L. J. 



Willow Bark in Ague (Vol. ix., p. 452.). — In 

 the Philosophical Transactions (1835 ?) is a me- 

 moir by the Rev. E. Stone, of Chipping Norton, 

 of the salutary effects of the bark of the Duck 

 Willow in agues and intermittent fevers. The 

 author states, that being dried in an oven, and 

 pounded, and administered in doses of one drachm 

 every four hours in the intervals of the paroxysms, 

 it soon reduces the distemper ; and, except in 

 very severe cases, removes it entirely. With the 

 addition of one fifth part of Peruvian bark, it be- 



