was applied to to construct a lens specially for the purpose. Some
months back, as early at least as March or April in the present year, Mr.
F. H. Wenham actually printed on common chloride paper a _life-size_
positive from a small negative on collodion; and immediately afterwards
adopted the use of iodized paper for the same purpose; and after he had
exhibited the proofs, I myself repeated the experiment. In fact, had there
been time at the last meeting of the Photographic Society, a paper on this
very subject would have been read by Mr. Wenham; but the {86} business
before the meeting was too extensive to admit of it. My object is not, of
course, to offer any objection to the proposition, but simply to put in a
claim of merit for the idea originally due to Mr. Fox Talbot, and
secondarily to Mr. Wenham, who I believe was an earlier operator in this
way than any one.

GEO. SHADBOLT.

_Yellow Bottles for Photographic Chemicals._--As light transmitted through
a yellow curtain, or yellow glass, does not affect photographic operations,
would it not be desirable to keep the nitrate of silver and its solutions
in yellow glass bottles, instead of covering the plain white glass with
black paper, as I see directed in some cases?

CERIDWEN.

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_Donnybrook Fair_ (Vol. vii., p. 549.).--ABHBA will find his answer in
D'Alton's _History of the County of Dublin_, p. 804.:

"About the year 1174, Earl 'Strongbow' gave Donnybrock (Devonalbroc),
amongst other lands, to Walter de Riddlesford; and in 1204, King John
granted to the corporation of Dublin license for an _annual eight-day
fair here_, commencing on the day of the finding of the Holy Cross (May
3rd), with similar stallages and tolls, as established in Waterford and
Limerick."

This scene of an Irishman's glory has been daguerreotyped in lines that may
be left in your pages, as being probably quite as little known to your
readers as is the work above cited:

"Instead of weapons, either band
Seized on such arms as came to hand.
And as famed Ovid paints th' adventures
Of wrangling Lapithae and Centaurs,
Who at their feast, by Bacchus led,
Threw bottles at each others' head;
And these arms failing in their scuffles,
Attack'd with andirons, tonges, and shovels:
So clubs and billets, staves and stones,
Met fierce, encountering every sconce,
And cover'd o'er w