PHELPS' HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SOMERSETSHIRE. Part 4., and Parts 9.
to end.
BAYLE'S DICTIONARY. English Version, by DE MAIZEAUX. London, 1738. Vols.
I. and II.
SWIFT'S (DEAN) WORKS. Dublin: G. Faulkner. 19 volumes 1768. Vol. I.
TRANSACTIONS OF THE MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Vol. I. and II.
ARCHÆOLOGIA. Vols. III., IV., V., VII. Boards.
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Notices to Correspondents.
_Owing to a necessity for going to press this week at an unusually early
period, that the present Number might be included in the Monthly Part, we
are compelled to omit replies to many Correspondents._
L. A. M. (Great Yarmouth) _will find several Notes respecting the means of
discovering the bodies of the drowned in our_ 4th Vol., pp. 148. 251. 297.
H. O. N. (Brighton). _In our own practice we have never obtained pictures
with the agreeable colour which is produced by the iodide of silver, when
iodide of ammonium has been used. The flaking of the collodion would
indicate an excess of iodide, and is often cured by the addition of about
twenty drops of alcohol to an ounce of collodion. The feathery appearance
is difficult to comprehend, without seeing a specimen. If you are using
glass which has been previously used, the most minute remains of iron would
cause a discoloration. Muriatic acid is the most effectual remedy for
cleaning glass so used. It may be procured at_ 2½d. _per lb., and should be
diluted with three parts of water._
AN AMATEUR (Oxford). _We are not of opinion that Mr. Talbot could restrain
any one from taking collodion portraits, as patentee of the Talbotype
process. It is done in many parts of London daily without any
permission.--See _Times'_ Advertisements, &c._
C. E. F. _We think you use too strong a solution of the ammonio-nitrate of
silver: thirty grains to the ounce of water, and then redissolved with the
strong liq. ammon., give to us most satisfactory result,--the paper being
prepared before with chloride of barium, chloride of sodium, and chloride
of ammonia, of each half a drachm to the quart of water, in which half an
ounce of mannite, or sugar of milk, has been previously dissolved. When
sufficiently printed, put it into the hypo. sulph. solution, without
previous immersion._
H. L. L. _We shall be happy to render you the best assistance we can, if
you will communicate with us again. For iodized paper we may safely refer
you to our advertising columns._
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