Edingthorpe Rectory.
"Patna, India, Nov. 9, 1851.
"Plain paper is floated on a bath of acetonitrate of silver, prepared of
25 grs. of nitrate of silver, 1 fluid oz. of water, 60 minims of strong
acetic acid. When well moistened on one side, the paper is removed, and
lightly dried with blotting-paper; it is then placed with the prepared
side downwards on the surface of a bath of hydriodate of iron (8 grs.
of the iodide in 1 oz. of silver). It is not allowed to remain on this
solution, for if this were the case it would become almost insensitive.
The silvered surface must be simply moistened with the hydriodate--the
object being to get a minimum quantity of it diffused equally over the
silvered surface. The photographer accustomed to delicacy of manipulation
will find no difficulty in this. While still wet the paper is placed upon
a glass (face downwards), and exposed in the {254} camera for periods
varying from 10 to 60 seconds, according to circumstances. In sunshine,
and when the object to be copied is bright, 5 seconds in this climate
(India) is sufficient. Excellent portraits are obtained in shade in 30
seconds; 60 seconds is the maximum of exposure. The picture is removed
from the camera and allowed to develop itself spontaneously in the dark,
then soaked in water, and fixed in the usual manner with the hyposulphite
of soda."--_Athenæum_, Jan. 10, 1852.
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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Alterius Orbis Papa_ (Vol. iii., p. 497.)--It was Pope Urban II. who,
at the Council of Bari, in Apulia, gave this title to St. Anselm,
the cotemporary Archbishop of Canterbury, who was present, and, in a
learned and eloquent discourse, confuted the Greeks. See Laud's _Works_
(Ang.-Cath. Lib.), vol. ii. p. 190.: note where the authorities William
of Malmesbury and John Capgrave are cited.