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538 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [August 21, 1885. suspected man is one night made to play in the club card’ room within the focus of an instantaneous photographic camera. The apparatus that is able to give us a striking likeness of a flash of lightning, a faithful portrait of a tornado, and an unmistakable representation of the flash of a pistol, will surely be able to secure a negative of a ‘ pass,’ however swiftly made ; of a " cut,’ however deftly managed. Be prepared with plates enough to secure photographs of every distinct operation the suspecte 1 player performs with the pack of cards ; and, as a result, I maintain it will be possible at the next meeting of the club committee to lay before it a report of the sharper’s misdeeds, duly illustrated with ‘ cuts.’ ” We need not quote our correspondent farther, and only allude to his letter as a specimen of its misapplied inge nuity rifeat this season. It is clear, though, that, accord ing to his contention, the series of photographs in which the various positions assumed by the legs of a trotting horse in completing one stride are exhibited, will soon be supplemented by a novel set of instantaneous negatives illustrating the whole of the manipulative action involved in one performing the “ three card trick.” Patent Untelligence. Applications for Letters Patent. 9575. WALTER Bentley WooDBURY and Felix VERGARA, 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., for “ An improved substitute for glass to be used for photographic and other purposes.”—11th August, 1885. 9628. Alfred Charles Farnsworth, 1, St. James’ Square, Manchester, for “ Improvements in actinometers for photo graphic and other uses.”—13th August, 1885. 9661 . James Yate Johnson, 47, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Middlesex, for “Improvements in photographic apparatus for enabling prepared plates to be readily placed in and removed from the photographic camera without injurious exposure to light.”— (F. H. Mader, Germany.)—13th August, 1885. Patent Sealed. 5725. Alfred Julius Boult, 323, High Holborn, Middlesex, for “ Improvements in photographic film holders.” — {George Eastman and William Mall Walker, United States.)—9th May, 1885. Specification Published during the Week. 13,318. James Thomson, of 21, High Park Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, for “ Improvements in photographic cameras.”—Dated 7th July, 1885. The patentee says—My invention consists in combining one whole camera with a portion of another larger camera, so that when combined each shall be equally available for use, and the smaller camera will fold up within the portion of the larger camera when not in use. The combined cameras will then be of less size and weight than an ordinary camera of the larger size alone, and the larger camera will be obtained at one-third its usual cost. I carry out the combination in the following way :—A frame forming the back portion of the larger camera for holding the prepared plate is made similar to the back frame of the smaller camera, only larger ; say the smaller will carry a plate 10 inch by 10, and the larger a plate 15 inch by 12. The depth of the smaller camera, when packed up, will be 3 inches, and the two together, when packed up, 5 inches. I declare that what I claim is—The combination of a photo graphic camera with a camera back frame, substantially as herein set forth. Patent Granted in America. 323,721. Henry W. Oliver, Rome, N.Y. “Photographic wsshing apparatus.”—Filed May 10, 1884. (No model.) Claim.— 1. In a gelatine photographic negative washing apparatus, the combination, with the tank A, having its sides provided with the vertical non-perforated corrugations, a a, and a' a', of the perforated and vertically-corrugated partitions, C C, removable from any two opposite corrugations, a a', to any similar two, substantially as specified. 2. A tank for washing gelatine photographic negatives, having its inner walls adapted to sustain partitions which are provided with means for holding photographic negatives, and provided at one end with a water-supply pipe, and at the opposite end with a syphon, whereby the said tank may be automatically emptied at regular intervals, substantially as specified. 3. A tank for washing gelatine photographic negatives, having its longitudinal inner walls adapted to sustain removable trans verse perforated partitions, which are provided with means for holding gelatine photographic negatives, and the said tank also having means for receiving and discharging water, substantially as specified. 4. In a gelatine photographic negative washing apparatus, the combination, with the tank A, provided at one end with the water-inlet B, of the syphon, E, at the opposite end of the said tank, the opening F, and the gate G, provided with the holesgg, substantially as specified. ONE OR TWO OUT-OF-THE-WAY PLACES IN WALES. BY J. MAURICE JONES.* OUr-OF-THE-WAY places have a peculiar fascination to the amateur photographer. Well-known beauty spots might enable him to expose more plates in a given time—for by studying the shop windows in the neighbourhood he would be able to judge where the best views could be obtained, and therefore save him self time and trouble. But, alas ! the heart of man in every age cries out for something new, and the photographer in search of the picturesque is not an exception to the rule. He has an aversion to the “ Carnarvon Castle from the Ferry ” sort of views; he is hardly thankful for the information that “ it is generally taken from there,” and it only increases his disgust to find, after trying to get some better view, or at any rate a more original one, that the spot indicated is the best. Cemmaes, one of the “ out-of-the-way ” places I want to tell you about, is not open to the objection of being “ well-trodden ’ ground, for it is undoubtedly “ out-of-the-way,” being four miles from the nearest railway station, Amlwch, Anglesey. If, however, the spirit should move any of our members to go that way, they would find the walk a pleasant one, provided, of course, that the camera happens to be “ one of the lightest made.” Cars, however, are easily obtained, and the charge is very moderate. At Cemmaes the photographer will find “ fresh fields and pastures new;” he will find it to be a genuine speci men of a village by the sea, with an “ odour of brine from the * A communication to the Birkenhead Photographic Association.