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ordinary amount of heat without injury to the gelatine, but a very 
slight amount of heat will soften the gelatine when itis wet and cause 
it to run from the glass. Let your plates dry spontaneously. And 
Igalso advise that no attempt be made to hurry the drying by 
immersing the plate in alcohol, for the purpose of expelling the 
water from the film. Like many other things you will find advo- 
cated in photographic journals, this is a mere make-shift with little 
real merit init. It is not worth one’s while to risk the spoiling of 
a day’s outing, or endanger some choice negative, by hurrying it 
through at the end. Let it take its own time to dry, remembering 
that,a good negative is, to change the quotation slightly, a thing of 
beauty.and a joy forever. 
