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- Ausgabe No. 1270, January 5, 1883 1
- Ausgabe No. 1271, January 12, 1883 17
- Ausgabe No. 1272, January 19, 1883 33
- Ausgabe No. 1273, January 26, 1883 49
- Ausgabe No. 1274, February 2, 1883 65
- Ausgabe No. 1275, February 9, 1883 81
- Ausgabe No. 1276, February 16, 1883 97
- Ausgabe No. 1277, February 23, 1883 113
- Ausgabe No. 1278, March 2, 1883 129
- Ausgabe No. 1279, March 9, 1883 145
- Ausgabe No. 1280, March 16, 1883 161
- Ausgabe No. 1281, March 22, 1883 177
- Ausgabe No. 1282, March 30, 1883 193
- Ausgabe No. 1283, April 6, 1883 209
- Ausgabe No. 1284, April 13, 1883 225
- Ausgabe No. 1285, April 20, 1883 241
- Ausgabe No. 1286, April 27, 1883 257
- Ausgabe No. 1287, May 4, 1883 273
- Ausgabe No. 1288, May 11, 1883 289
- Ausgabe No. 1289, May 18, 1883 305
- Ausgabe No. 1290, May 25, 1883 321
- Ausgabe No. 1291, June 1, 1883 337
- Ausgabe No. 1292, June 8, 1883 353
- Ausgabe No. 1293, June 15, 1883 369
- Ausgabe No. 1294, June 22, 1883 385
- Ausgabe No. 1295, June 29, 1883 401
- Ausgabe No. 1296, July 6, 1883 417
- Ausgabe No. 1297, July 13, 1883 433
- Ausgabe No. 1298, July 20, 1883 449
- Ausgabe No. 1299, July 27, 1883 465
- Ausgabe No. 1300, August 3, 1883 481
- Ausgabe No. 1301, August 10, 1883 497
- Ausgabe No. 1302, August 17, 1883 513
- Ausgabe No. 1303, August 24, 1883 529
- Ausgabe No. 1304, August 31, 1883 545
- Ausgabe No. 1305, September 7, 1883 561
- Ausgabe No. 1306, September 14, 1883 577
- Ausgabe No. 1307, September 21, 1883 593
- Ausgabe No. 1308, September 28, 1883 609
- Ausgabe No. 1309, October 5, 1883 625
- Ausgabe No. 1310, October 12, 1883 641
- Ausgabe No. 1311, October 19, 1883 657
- Ausgabe No. 1312, October 26, 1883 673
- Ausgabe No. 1313, November 2, 1883 689
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- Ausgabe No. 1317, November 30, 1883 753
- Ausgabe No. 1318, December 7, 1883 769
- Ausgabe No. 1319, December 14, 1883 785
- Ausgabe No. 1320, December 21, 1883 801
- Ausgabe No. 1321, December 28, 1883 817
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fresh-water jelly fish which most unaccountably turned up in the Victoria Regia tank in the Royal Bota nical Gardens, Regent’s Park, in 1879, and which in many ways has been a puzzle to naturalists, who so far have failed to follow up its life history, although watched with very keen interest. This makes a most charming object in the microscope, as it slowly swims about by the alternate ex pansion and contraction of its transparent umbrella-like body, from the edge of which stand up a bristling array of tentacles, each one armed with innumerable stinging organs ready on the approach of its intended prey (the water flea) to be darted out and exert their benumbing power ; and it is possible for the stndent to see the mouth pushed out to engulf the prey, which is passed on to the elastic stomach to be digested. A higher power of the.microscope reveals the series of brilliant eye spots and hearing organs around the edge of the umbrella at the origin of the larger tentacles, and the large ovaries with their clusters of ova. Mr. Bolton has just added to his exhibit the nest of the little stickleback (gasterostent'). Here the male fish, who has built the nest, may be seen in diligent attendance, hovering over the mouth of the nest, fanning with its fins and tails so as to force a current of water down upon it to aerate the numerous eggs, which he has, with many manuvres, persuaded the female fish to lay in her nest. Later on, as the eggs come to maturity, he will watch over them to protect them, and as they burst out of the egg, and any of them are disposed to wander out prematurely, he may be noticed to carefully draw in a straggler into his mouth, bring it back, and gently puff it back into the nest. The curious natural history of this nest-building fish is well worthy of study. Mr. Bolton exhibits on the wall a series of portfolios of drawings, being a selection from the drawings and description of various organisms he has already sent out to the leading naturalists al! over the United Kingdom, and most of the biological classes in the universities and science schools, He also makes a fine exhibit of mounted seaweed at his stand (804) in the North Eastern Quadrant. Mr. Bolton has this week been exhibiting some young smelt in the microscope, which are fifteen days old. These fish were hatched by Sir James Ramsay Gibson Maitland, Bart., at his piscicultural establishment in Howieton. They were forty-two days in the water, being at a temperature of 45°, being the first successful attempt at their artificial cultivation in this country. He has also shown the spawn of the cuttle-fish, of the sea-lemon, and of the periwinkle. CAMERA VIGNETTES, OR CARTES RUSSES. The majority of those practising the art-science of photo graphy as a profession are, no doubt, fully conversant with the various methods of producing that most artistic form of portrait known as the “ Camera Vignette,” or Carte Russe, as our Paris friends term it ; but there may be a small minority to whom the description of a simple and effective plan of operations may prove acceptable. If it were possible to suggest any addition to the practical re marks in a recent number on “Rembrandt Effects,” the idea of vignetting the said Rembrandt portrait might, per haps, bear consideration as a modification capable of enhancing the effect. The exposure necessary for the one is sufficient for the other, if properly arranged. The background must not merely be of black cloth, but be well in shadow, or the slight over-exposure necessary to bring out the details of shadows will inevitably cause a deposit on those parts which should be transparent. Foggy emulsion is no use for this work, and any developer which tends to diminish the cleanness of the plate is to be carefully avoided, unless the alum and hydrochloric bath will set things right again. In an ordinary Rembrandt negative this is not of so much importance ; but when all the plate, except the head and bust and that part immediately round these, re ceives no light at all upon it, the effect of a halo is produced unless these precautions are taken. Pyro stains must of course be removed. Given, then, a bl k background well shaded by head screens or otherwise, and the figure suitably lighted at a distance of some three or four feet in front thereof, let it be supposed that the resulting picture is to be a one-inch head and bust, and the lens, say, a 2B, the method of procedure will be as follows:—A light box, made most easily of cardboard covered with brown paper by means of paste, and lined with thin black tissue paper (or painted inside with lamp-black mixed with a little of the paste and water), is constructed to go over the end of an ordinary camera, and project at least sixteen inches in front of the lens. It should either be arranged to slide over the camera to reduce the distance, when necessary, to ten or twelve inches, or the front of it must be moveable in the box itself to answer the same purpose. The front of box, whether fixed or movable, must be provided with an oval aperture about five inches by three inches wide, and an ordinary vignetting mask with deeply-serrated lower edge, some what smaller than the hole in the box, should becut out of a strip of dead-black paper, and arranged to fit over the hole and adjusted to right position. This is easily managed by pasting a piece of paper with a hole therein by its side edges only to the end of the box. This will leave a space for the paper vignettes to be slipped through and be adjusted aright. As most cameras are fitted with a large movable screen projecting in front and rear, it is scarcely necessary to fit loose on to camera with more than ordinary accuracy, in order to exclude light; but the inside must be dead-black. The distance of vignettes from lens is determined by size of figure required, and by the focal length of lens. That indicated is for the lens named. The shape of vignettes should be like those used in printing or enlarging. Those who prefer it can place the mask inside the camera between lens and plate, with smaller vignette upside down, and arranged to move to find from lens as required; this does away, of course, with the box outside. This plan not only increases the length of exposure considerably, but is in the way of most of the better forms of inside shutters used now with quick plates. There is also more trouble in adjusting it, the ground glass requiring frequently re moving for the purpose. In the former arrangement some shutter is evidently needed, either inside, behind lens, or in the box in front, as the cap cannot be reached. This can readily be contrived by anyone. Should halation be manifest with some plates, it is well to adopt the suggestion made in these columns of applying a piece of black velvet, wrung out of glycerine, to the back of plates. THE ALTERATION OF PAVER WHEN EXPOSER TO LIGHT. As paper forms the usual basis on which finished photo graphic pictures are produced, it becomes of primary importance to consider how far any changes of this material are likely to affect the permanence of the photo graphic image ; and a darkening of the basis on which the picture has been made is certainly as effective in obliterat ing the subject as a lowering of the depth of the photo graphic shadings themselves. Few of the cheaper varieties of commercial paper are unaffected by exposure to light, those tinted with organic colouring matters often becoming lighter; while many white samples gradually darken until a deep russet brown tint is arrived at. It may, however, be safely assumed that a white paper manufactured from pure rag-pulp will not darken to an appreciable extent; while cheaper papers, into the com-
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