Chapter 6

HUGH HENDERSON. _1st, Black Japan varnish is very improper for your positive pictures; it often cracks, and is long in drying. Black lacquer varnish, procurable at Strong's, the varnish makers in Long Acre, is the best we have been able to procure. 2nd, The solution for development will keep any length of time; you may use it by dipping or otherwise_.

W.C., _who recommends the use of a plate glass bath enveloped in gutta percha, is informed that we have had such a bath in use for many months, and it answers our purpose exceedingly well_.

ABRAHAM. _As we have often said before, we think that a good lens requires no "actinic" focus to find. In a properly constructed lens the chemical and visual foci are identical; and we would ourselves not be troubled with the use of one in which they differed. Our advertising columns will point out to you where such a lens man be procured. We believe, where there is a difference between the two foci, chemical and visual, that other distortions also take place, accounting for some of the unpleasant effects complained of in Photography._

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Corrections made to printed original.

page 350, "entered upon his eightieth year": 'eighteenth' in original.