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168 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. LMARCH 13, 1885. The next ordinary meeting of the Photographic Society of Great Britain will be on Tuesday, the 7th of April, instead of the 14th. The drying of plates was talked of at the last meeting. Mr. Cadett finds that a drying box like that shown be low answers well; in fact, it is easy to dry plates in two hours. Explanation is unnecessary, except to say that the box is made of wood; its sides are about 30 inches square, and a sheet of iron about 18 inches square is let into the bottom. Neither the door nor the internal fittings are shown, as each person can arrange these matters to suit his own views. Captain Abney uses a very similar drying-box, but he heats it with a hot water apparatus, as shown below. The small boiler at the left-hand side of the drawing may be made of sheet copper, and the zig-zagged tube, through which the water circulates in the drying-box, is ordinary soft gas-pipe,'.technically called “compo pipe; ” half-an- inch in diameter being a convenient size for this pipe. The boiler (in which, by-the-bye, the water should never actually boil) need not be in the same room as the drying- box. sary to use a gas flame, an oil lamp, or several night- lights. As blocking up the window of the back kitchen and locking the door generally imposes the obligation of rising very early on the part of the plate maker, it is an excel lent plan to make a light-tight and ventilating lid to the copper, this lid being shown in section at the right hand side of the sketch. Still, a regard for the truth compels us to say that our experiences with the light tight lid have not been nearly so satisfactory as with the ordinary wooden lid placed aslant; more heat is required, and the drying is slower. A photographer has been advertising cartes of Khar toum. Seeing how much that ill-fated city has occupied the attention of our Ministers of late, there must be more “ Cabinet " views of it than cartes. M. Leon Dumuys, writing in La Nature, tells his readers how to make a camera out of a hat. The frame inside the hat takes a plate of ground glass, which serves as a focussing screen, and the author recommends a kind of portfolio slide containing sensitive films. M. Dumuys, however, does not say whether he or anybody else has actually taken a picture with the arrangement. An excellent plate-drying arrangement, which exists ready to hand in every house, and is available for the use of any person whose diplomatic tact is equal to the task of dealing with the authorities below stairs, is here repre sented. Suflice it to say that if the " copper ” is actually made of copper, and the lid is placed as represented in the sketch, a sufficient draught will circulate to dry the plates in the shortest night, even if the source of heat is only a large night-light, In other cases it may be neces A curious law case has been decided in the County Court at Bridgewater. Mr. Palmer sat to Mr. A. Squibbs, a photographer having a studio in the town, and seems to have given some kind of permission for the resulting picture to be exhibited in the shop. The photographer, however, had a coloured enlargement made from the negative, and this was taken round the town by a can vasser. Mr. Palmer, disapproving of this course, and finding remonstrance of no avail, put his foot through the canvasser’s case, and spoiled the enlargement. After much argument, the judge ordered him to pay 3s. 6d. for the damage done to the case, 3s. 6d. the value of the glass broken, and Is. the value of the card on which the photo graph was mounted. Why does not the Amateur Photographic Association have an exhibition? We asked this question some weeks ago, and it is still unanswered, The executive of the
