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accidents occur when a print, immersed in the gallie acid, 
has been forgotten, or where the reducing action of the 
bath has been too great. I was induced to search for a 
method of restoring such negatives, and I have found an 
easy, and, as I think, novel one. 
“Tmmerse in common water negatives, either new or 
old, and which have either been re-waxed or not; leave 
them some hours, so that they may be slightly impreg- 
nated with water, notwithstanding the wax, then plunge 
them into a tolerably full bath of 
Water - - - - 100 parts 
Todide of potassium - - - 5 do, 
The action is slow, but continuous. It requires sometimes 
as much as twenty-four hours, but it can be easily stopped 
at any moment. 
“Immerse the negative for a few minutes in the bath 
of hyposulphite of soda, wash and wax it. 
“Tt is not easy to explain the action that takes place. 
This process has been in use for a year, and the action of 
potash upon photographs being known, I thought at first 
that the iodide that I had used contained an excess of 
that alkali, and that the lightening of the picture which 
took place, was due to its effect. I have repeated the ex- 
periment with specimens of iodide of potassium obtained 
from different sources, and not having too alkaline a re- 
action, and they have all given the same result. One 
may, I think, attribute it to the decomposition of the 
iodide of potassium by contact with the air, the iodine 
slowly volatilising, and the potash set free acting on the 
photograph, and producing the effect observed. 
“T leave it to those experimenters who have the time 
to try a bath of potash, which will perhaps produce the 
same result, if sufficiently diluted. 
“Tt is equally easy to lighten negatives that have been 
strengthened by terchloride of gold, and which in that 
bath have become completely obliterated by a blueish- 
black covering.” M.-DE LA BLANCHERE. 
Replies to Pinar Queries, 
“ Vent Creator Spiritus” (272 S. i. 148.) — 
I hasten to correct a stupid blunder into which 
I find I have fallen. The hymn to which the 
reference should have been is not ‘‘ Veni Creator 
Spiritus,” but “ Veni Sancte Spiritus.” 
that one wrong word perverts the whole. 
B. H. Cowrer. 
‘Newcourt's “ Repertorium.” —In “N. & Q.” 
(1" S. xii. 381.) is a note on Cole’s annotated 
copy of this valuable work. I find, from the 
Catalogue of the library of James West, Esq., 
President of the Royal Society, sold on March 29, 
1773, and the twenty-three following days, there 
are two other annotated copies; one containing 
manuscript additions by Peter Le Neve, Norroy, 
bought by Mr, Fox for 9s. 6d.; and another copy 
with manuscript notes and additions by Bishop 
Kennett, bought by Mr. Gough for 13s. 
J. YEOwELL. 
“ His golden locks,” ¢c. (1* S. xii. 450.) — The 
lines referred to by Pexicanus Amuricanvs, as 
— in Thackeray’s Newcomes, are by George 
eele, who wrote in the latter half of the sixteenth 
I regret 
century. They are taken from a poem entitled 
Polyhymnia, being “ a description of a Triumph at 
Tilt, held before Queen Elizabeth in the Tilt 
Yard at Westminster, in 1590;” and they form 
the first (and I think by far the best) of three 
stanzas, which I subjoin, in case you should think 
them worth insertion : 
“ The aged Man-at- Arms. 
“ His golden locks time hath to silver turned ; 
O time tov swift, O swiftness never ceasing! 
His youth ’gainst time and age hath ever spurned, 
But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing. 
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; 
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and eyer green. 
‘“‘ His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, 
And lovers’ songs be turned to holy psalms; 
A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, 
And feed on prayers, which are old age’s alms: 
But though from court to cottage he depart, 
His saint is sure of his unspotted heart. 
«¢ And when he saddest sits in homely cell, 
He’ll teach his swains this carol for a song ; 
‘ Blessed be the hearts that wish my Sovereign well, 
Cursed be the souls that think her any wrong.’ 
Goddess, allow this aged man his right, 
To be your beadsman now, that was your knight.” 
Vide Robert Beil’s Annotated Edition of the 
English Poets, * Songs from the Dra- 
matists,” p. 60. 
R. (3.) 
Frere, or Freer Family (2° §. i. 75.) — Can 
Mr. Faser furnish me with any further particu- 
lars of the Perthshire family of this name? What 
is the earliest period to which they can be traced 
in Perthshire ? 
I shall be happy to assist Mr. FAperr’s re- 
searches by any means in my power, but I cannot 
at present, either of myself or by inquiry amongst 
other members of the family, verify the tradition 
to which he alludes. 
Mr. Faser states not whether the Innernethy 
estate passed to the Moncrieffe family by inherit- 
ance or by purchase. Gro. E. FRERE. 
Sir J. Smith of Grothill and Kings Cramond 
(2™2 S. i. 134.) — Upon looking into that very 
curious and valuable historical work, entitled The 
Antient and Modern State of the Parish of Cra- 
mond, by J. P. Wood, Edinburgh, 1794, 4to., I 
found it there stated, that — 
“ The old house of ‘Kings Cramond’ was built about 
the year 1640, by Sir John Smith of Grotthill, the most 
considerable proprietor in the parish, and a person of no 
small consequence in his days. In 1640, he was nomi- 
nated one of the supervisors of the Covenant; in 1641, the 
Parliament of Scotland appointed him one of the com- 
missioners for the Treaty of Ripon; in 1642 and 1643, he 
served the office of Lord Provost of Edinburgh; and in 
1649, he was made a commissioner for the excise, and for 
revising the laws and acts of Parliament. He flourished 
here many years in great splendour, having a numerous 
fainily of children and grandchildren; but his affairs at 
last falling into disorder, he was obliged, wheii near 
