1-1 H. Blochmann — Readings of Inscriptions from Jaunpur. [Jan. 



When all detail lias been brought out by this preliminary development, 

 the plate is again washed and flowed over with 2 drams of the pyrogallic 

 solution, No. I., to which have been added six drops of a solution of 



IV.' — Citric acid, 60 grains. 



Glacial acetic acid, 30 minims. 



Water, 1 ounce. 



This is poured back again into the developing cup and two or three 

 drops of 



V. — Nitrate of Silver, , 20 grains. 



Water (distilled), 1 ounce. 



having been added, it is again applied to the plate and the details, previously 

 very thin and scarcely visible by transmitted light, gradually acquire a suffi- 

 cient density for printing purposes. 



Should the intensification be slow by reason of under-exposure, a drop 

 or two more of No. V. may be added from time to time, a drop of No. IV. 

 accompanying each such addition. The plates may then be fixed, after 

 washing, with a weak solution of cyanide of potassium or hyposulphite of 

 soda. Should they appear too weak after fixing, the intensifying operation 

 last described may be repeated, but over-intensification should be guarded 

 against as the pictures are sometimes more dense actually than they 

 appear to the eye. 



Great care should be taken to keep prepared sensitive dry plates per- 

 fectly dry and free from moisture, and also to preserve them from any 

 influence of light. 



The Year Books of Photography and Abney's Instructions in Photo- 

 graphy will give full instructions regarding dry and wet-plate photography. 



The President also announced the receipt of a communication from 

 Mon. Lucien Adam, Nancy, inviting the Society's co-operation in promoting 

 the objects of the Cong res Internationale des Americanistes, and laid the 

 papers connected with the subject on the table. 



Mr. Blochmann laid his readings and translations of the following 

 inscriptions before the meeting ■ — 



Jaunpu'r. 



General Cunningham, C. S. I., has favoured the Society with a rubbing 

 of the inscription on a pillar in front of the Masjid in Jaunpur Fort. The 

 inscription consists of six lines, of which the second is almost entirely illegi- 

 ble. The historical portions, however, are clear. 



The inscription commemorates the erection of a mosque in 778, or 

 1377, A. D. by Ibrahim Naib Barbak, whom Zia uddin Barani states to 

 have been Firuz Shah's brother. 



