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of inscriptions in the Society's Museum are almost useless, 

 we therefore earnestly hope that those of our readers who feel 

 interest in these matters — and we hope that means all our 

 readers — will make and send us copies of the inscriptions in 

 their neighbourhood. 



An eye copy must be very carefully made to be of 

 much use, and it is often very laborious to make one at all : 

 but a friend to the good cause in London has been kind 

 enough to send us the following paper, of which we hope 

 that many will take advantage. 



TO TAKE FAG-SIMILES OF INSCRIPTIONS, DECORA- 

 TIVE CARVINGS, dc. 

 FIRST METHOD. 

 If sufficient time be allowed to dry perfectly a few 

 sheets of paper. Take a sheet of any sort (a thick bibulous 

 paper is the best) and lay it, previously damped, upon the 

 inscription ; it should then be pressed with the hand till it 

 enters into all the engraved letters ; a good clothes brush 

 with a handle, struck hard upon the paper will com- 

 plete the operation ; the paper should not be taken off 

 till it is quite dry, when it should be carefully rolled up. 

 For greater safety, I have frequently laid a sheet of paper 

 pasted on the face, close down upon the preceding sheet, 

 while still damp, before it is removed from the inscription, 

 and beaten it down with the brush ; if two or three pasted 

 sheets be thus laid down, you will have a thick impression, 

 which may, with care, be removed at once ; and when this is 

 quite dry, it may be rolled up, and put away with perfect 

 safety. I have had some impressions taken in this way, 

 which I have kept for several years, they will bear any 

 amount of rough usage without damage. 



