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CUSTOM HOUSE OFFICERS AND DRY PLATES. Sir,—I have been not a little interested by the relation of the experiences of your various correspondents in the matter of Custom House inspections. When I read Mr. Grant’s first letter on the subject I felt a keen personal interest in the matter, and strong sympathy with him ; and I think that the case of travelling photographers, amateur and professional, ought to be treated inter nationally on some definite and intelligent basis. Photo graphic plates, from their weight in proportion to their bulk, cannot be easily taken for tobacco ; from their shape, they cannot be taken for bottles; and these, I guess, are the things Custom House officers are most on the alert to pounce upon. For my own part I have passed the Customs under almost all circumstances, at stations, in docks, by the road side, and at the gates of many Italian cities; in many countries, France, Holland, Belguim, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Australia, New 7 aland, and America ; and 1 never had a single box of plates opened, or indeed trouble of any kind. In Switzerland I think I had once to leave a deposit, for which a receipt was given, and on presentation of that receipt my deposit was refunded on my leaving the country. Nor on any occasion except one, and then I was not a photographer, were the contents of any box deranged iu the very least. A hand might be thrust in for form’s sake, but voila tout. In many cases, most cases I may say, my word has sufficed to prevent even my boxes being opened. “ The reason why I cannot tell.” I cultivate an open countenance, and a frank, polite, but not cringing manner. I speak all the languages (more or less) experience has taught me, or I have acquired infor mation where and where not the insidious coin is useful and practicable. In some places an attempt at bribery is sure desstruction, in others a necessary evil. In France, Switzerland, Germany, and parts of Austria and Italy, a bribe is dangerous, unless very deftly administered. In America (East) bribery is wholesale, but requires tact. In North Italy I fancy a bribe is better avoided, but about Naples I know it to be necessary for peace, and may be given quite openly. All boxes containing sensitive materials should have their qualities printed in the language of each country to be visited. The camera should be shown first to the officer to prepare his mind for the awful disclosures to follow. Persistence on the part of an officer to open any box never occurred to me; but if it did occur, I should then leave the box in bond, offer to open it in a suitable light, and appeal to an officer of a higher grade. Once in England years ago, when I knew nothing of our delightful art, a Custom officer turned out on a pier the whole of the contents of my baggage trunks. This was at 4 a.m., and I was too much overcome to insist on his returning my clothes to my trunk. I met a “ boss ” Custom officer about 10 a.m., and reported the affair, and the officious customer got a severe “ wigging,” and narrowly escaped material punishment. But my advice is, be frank, polite, and ready to “ tip ” when necessary ; but, above all, learn languages. Andrew Pringle. HOW ARE ENLARGEMENTS JUDGED? Sib,—At the Exhibition, the question occured to my mind: How are enlargements judged? When a picture is sent, is the subject taken into consideration, or is it simply judged as an enlargement? If this be the case, is size the chief recommendation, irrespective of the proportionate enlargement from the original negative ? For example, an enlargement 48 inches long from a negative 12 by 10, and another 36 inches long from a carte negative ; both results being equally good, does the larger photograph bear off the palm? Very large sized work is only possible in very large business premises, and a great amount of big work to support them ; and if size be the chief consideration, evidently smaller, but perchance etter, work has but little chance. If any of your numerous readers could give me this information they would oblige One Interested in Enlargement. at Sutieties. London and Provincial PHOTOGRAPHIIC Association. At the meeting of this Society, held on Thursday, the 15th iust., Mr. E. Twiss occupied the chair. Messrs. J. Frankland, A. Sacks, F. York, and J. Stuart, were elected members of the Association. Mr. A. L. Henderson passed round an enamel plate, from which several small tablets had been cut by means of emery, and a copper cylinder rotating perpendicularly in a lathe—on a similar principle to that employed for cutting watch-dials. He (Mr. Henderson) had cut small plates in this way for a good many years, and thought the suggestion of Mr. J. Traill Taylor, to apply it to the cutting of photographic lenses, a very good one. He also exhibited an old dry-plate camera, kindly lent for the occasion, and known as “ Cooke’s patent camera.” The principal features are as follow. A mahogany box in two leaves, forming four divisions ; one of the upper divisions comprising the camera proper, the hinged front forming a base with rack for extending the body. Focussing is done by opening the leaves, and bringing up the focussing screen from the lower front chamber. To expose, the leaves are again closed, and a frame passing through each of the interior compartments, drawn upwards; by this means the plate lodged on the frame in the lower compartment is carried to the upper chamber; here a spring forces the plate forward into the position previously occupied by the focussing frame; after exposure, the plate is passed into the lower compartment by means of the shutter, and replaced by others. Mr. A. Cowan remarked that a camera of this description would be very solid on a tripod. Mr. W. E. Debenhaji said the feeding would be more rapid than by a camera, which required turning over every time. The general opinion was that in its present state there was danger to be apprehended from one plate scratching the surface of the next. In reply to questions, Mr. Henderson said the camera had been out of use for a dozen years. In its present form it would not hold more than eight half-plates. By a little alteration fifteen or eighteen plates in frames could be carried with ease. Mr. W. T. Wilkinson, referring to a Pumphrey safety gas jet, wished to know what advantages, if any, are derived from the use of four openings instead of two in the burner. A Member said, it was only intended as a greater security against explosion. Mr. Henderson, referring to the spots in a batch of emulsion, described at a recent meeting, said he went to Hastings, where this trouble arose. He made a small batch of plates there, and obtained a plentiful crop of spots on developing. Believing sulphates to be the cause, he added a few drops of a saturated solution of barium nitrate to each of the following salts, dissolved in distilled water—silver nitrate, potassium bromide, and potassium iodide. Upon the addition, the silver and bromide remained clear, the iodide became slightly turbid. The cause of failure was undoubtedly due to the ordinary water employed, which, upon the addition of barium, became opalescent. Bolton Photographic Society. The fourth annual meeting of this Society was held on Thursday, the 8th inst., at the Baths, Bolton, Mr. Robert Harwood in the chair. The Treasurer reported that after paying all the expenses to date, there was for the first time a balance remaining to the credit of the Society. The Council, having in their report remarked on the poor attend ance at some of their meetings, a conversation ensued as to the probable cause. Every care was taken to provide an interesting programme, and the papers and demonstrations which had been readand given during the year, and particularly those read by Mr. R. Harwood, Mr. T. Parkinson, and Mr. John Taylor, were inte resting and instructive. The poor atttndance, it was considered, was not attributable to the meetings being in themselves un attractive, but rather to the place of meeting being very incon venient. With the object of testing the correctness of ths view,
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