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of potash; dries it again, and exposes it.to the light, with 
either a print or a positive or negative photograph over 
it, or else he places it in the camera. It is then im- 
mersed in water, all those parts which the light has not 
touched rise up in relief, whilst those on which it has 
acted form hollows. From this a cast in metal can ber 
obtained by first taking a mould in plaster of Paris; or 1 
can be reproduced in metal by means of the electrotype. 
By this means negatives furnish metal plates in relief, 
from which impressions can be printed like woodcuts ; 
while positives give plates in which the design is sunk in, 
and from which copies can be printed as from engraved 
copper-plates. 
By using a coating of gelatine of some thickness, and 
impressing it by means of a photographic picture, a por- 
trait for example, a surface in relief like a medal may be 
obtained. 
The second process of M. Poitevin consists in applying 
one or two coatings of albumen, gelatine, or gum arabic, 
mixed with an equal quantity of a saturated solution 
of bichromate of potash, to the surface of a lithographic 
stone; and after drying, impressing it by the light passing 
through the design to be reproduced; on applying the 
lithographic ink by means of a dibber or roller, it is ab- 
sorbed by the stone, only in those parts where the light 
has impinged, 
Meplies ta flinor Buertes. 
Robinson's “ Annotations on the New Testament” 
(2° 8. i. 150.) —-It may perhaps interest your 
correspondent Mr. Mayor to know, that the 
Annotations on the New Testament, by Matthew 
Robinson, was formerly in the possession of 
the Rev. N. J. Hollingsworth, rector of Boldon. 
It was purchased at the sale of his library by Mr. 
Charnley, bookseller, in this toyn. There were 
only the two volumes on the New Testament. 
Wo. Dopp. 
Newcastle. 
Gainsborough the Artist (1" S, xii. 347.) —I be- 
lieve Fulcher the bookseller, at Sudbury, is adver- 
tising for materials fora life of Gainsborough. I 
happen to possess a small pamphlet professing to 
be A Sketch of the Life and Paintings of Thomas 
Gainsborough, Esq., by Philip Thicknesse, 1788. 
I do not know whether there is any value attached 
to it, either for its rarity, or for the fidelity of 
the facts it relates, but it appears to me to contain 
many curious particulars respecting that eminent 
artist and his family, and if Mr. Fulcher should 
deem it of any use to him it is quite at his service. 
Philip Thicknesse (or Governor Thicknesse I 
think he was called) was a general in the army, 
and was father to the George Lord Audley, having 
married Lady Elizabeth Tuchet. He writes in 
a very splenetic vein, but speaks generally in the 
highest terms of Gainsborough. He assumes the 
distinction of being his first patron, having, while 
Governor of Landguard Fort, by accident dis- 
covered his merit as an artist, and was thereby 
induced to bring him forth from his obscurity. 
Cromwell (2° 8. i. 162.) —It is many years 
since I read the Life of Mr. Cleveland, natural 
Son of Oliver Cromwell, written by himself, which, 
from the extraordinary nature of the adventures 
related in it, I have always considered as a fic- 
titious narrative. I possess a copy of it in French, 
printed at Utrecht in 1741, in 6 vols. 12mo. It 
professes to be translated from the English, and 
to be a new edition. It has a long preface, which 
labours to reconcile the improbabilities of the 
work with the truth of history. J. Mn. 
“ Veni Creator Spiritus” (2°78. i. 148.) —I 
fear the claim of Stephen Langton to the author- 
ship of this glorious hymn cannot be admitted, 
though so positively asserted by B. H. Cowrrr, 
on a new authority. It is unhesitatingly attri- 
buted to St. Ambrose by Gavantus, Merati, and 
others. Some have supposed Rabanus Maurus to 
be the author, because it is found among his 
writings, and in none earlier; but he lived in the 
middle of the ninth century, and of course the 
fact of the Veni Creator being found in his works 
is fatal to the claim of Stephen Langton of the 
thirteenth century. el Cats Is 
Becket Pedigree (1* S. x. 486.3; xii. 146.) — 
The following descent of the archbishop, which I 
extract from Westcote’s Pedigrees of Devonshire 
Families, may interest your correspondents G. and 
L.M.M. It begins with Garlois, Duke of Corn- 
wall, and the fair Igerne, the mother of King 
Arthur ; but as the whole of it would probably be 
too much for your columns, I commence with 
Edgar, Lord of Liskeard, who married Maud, 
daughter of Allard Becket, and by her had Wil- 
liam, Lord of Liskeard, who withstood the Con- 
queror a long time; but in fine, seeing force 
[2-4 §, No i0., Man. 8. 956. 
would not prevail, he privately changed both his’ 
name and arms, and took those of his mother, 
which were arg. three sea crows, sa. membred gu. 
He had issue Edmund, the father of Gilbert 
Becket, who married Maud, daughter of the Karl 
of Chylye, and had issue (besides others) Thomas 
Becket, made Archbishop and Lord Chancellor 
by King Henry II. J. T—1. 
Etymology (2"' §. i. 73. 122.) —E. C. H. says 
that erysipelas is derived ‘ from épvOpbs and 7réAAa, 
the root of the Latin pedlis.” But in this E. C. H. 
confounds together épvdpdreAas and épuaimedas, the 
former being a word of very doubtful authority, 
and the latter of the very highest, having been 
used by Hippocrates. E. C. H. moreover sup- 
plies a new word to the Greek language, for which 
I cannot discover any other authority than his 
own. There is, it is true, the word réAAa in Athe- 
nzeus, and reAAls in Nicander, but they signify not 
a skin but a milk-pail, and do not at all support 
E. C. H.’s etymology. 
Henry Stephens had indeed, among the medi- 
