Notes and Queries, Number 199, August 20, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 199, August 20, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
While I am writing, will you allow me to ask your photographic
correspondents whether any of them have tried Mr. Müller's paper process
referred to by Mr. Delamotte at p. 145. of his work? It was first
announced in the _Athenæum_ of Nov. 2, 1851. When I first commenced
photography (June, 1852), I tried the process; and from what I did
with it, when I was almost entirely ignorant of the manipulation, I am
inclined to think it a valuable process. The sharpness of the tracery in
my church windows, in a picture I took by the process, is remarkable.
Mr. Delamotte truly says: "This is a most striking discovery, as it
supersedes the necessity of any developing agent after the light has
acted on the paper." Mr. Müller says, that simple washing in water seems
to be sufficient to fix the picture. This is also a striking discovery,
and totally unlike any other very sensitive process that I am acquainted
with; and more striking still, that the process should not have been more
practised.
J. LAWSON SISSON.
Edingthorpe Rectory.
* * * * *
Replies to Minor Queries.
_Robert Drury_ (Vol. v., p. 533.; Vol. vii., p. 485.; vol. viii., p.
104.).--I believe the _Journal_ of Robert Drury to be a genuine book of
travels and adventures, and here is my voucher:
"The best and most authentic account ever given of Madagascar
was published in 1729, by Robert Drury, who being shipwrecked
in the Degrave East Indiaman, on the south side of that island,
in 1702, being then a boy, lived there as a slave fifteen
years, and after his return to England, among those who knew
him (and he was known to many, being a porter at the East India
House), had the character of a downright honest man, without
any appearance of fraud or imposture."--John Duncombe, M. A.,
one of the six preachers in Christ Church, Canterbury, 1773.
Mr. Duncombe quotes several statements from Drury which coincide with
those of the Reverend William Hirst, the astronomer, who touched at
Madagascar, on his voyage to India, in 1759. Ten years afterwards Mr.
Hirst perished in the Aurora, and with him the author of _The Shipwreck_.
BOLTON CORNEY.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account