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 io«» s. iv. SEPT. so. 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 275 Cassiodoro de Reina]. 3 parts. [Berne, printed by Sam. Apiariua for Thomas Guarinus] 1569," 4to. The printer's device of Apiarius was a bear. Complete accounts of this Bible may be found in Boehmer,' Bibl. Wiffen.,' ii. pp. 235- 240; 'Bibl. Sussex,' ii. pp. 227-30; Brunet, i. col. 896 ; Ebert, 2262. LUDWIG ROSENTHAL. Hildegardstr. 16, Munich. GORDON OF THE WEST INDIES (10th S. iv. 108). —In the Ebenezer Burial-Ground, Kingston, Jamaica, there was, and is yet, I dare say, this monumental inscription : " Ellen Gordon, died 8 June, 1839, aged 72 years." See L. Archer's ' Monumental Inscriptions in the British Vest Indies.' There are many other Gordon inscriptions, but no others between 1838 and 1844. M.A.OxoN. ROGER ASCHAM: "SCHEDULE" (10th S. iv. 169, 216).—With all due deference to MR. PLATT, I cannot agree that " shedule is diffi- cult to explain, and not to be recommended." It is the only pronunciation I have ever heard, and the only pronunciation given in Chambers's 'Twentieth Century Dictionary'; and if the " popular Latin scedula " were to be found in the ecclesiastical Latin of to-day it would certainly be pronounced "shedula" in Rome. The Roman pronunciation of " Gloria in excelsis " is " Gloria in eggshelsis." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. TRANSLATED SURNAMES (10th S. iv. 205).— At the end of the eighteenth century, when the proceedings in Paris made Frenchmen and French names notorious in Great Britain, many Huguenots resident in London changed their names to the English equivalents, thus Lefevre, Smith ; Le Noir, Black. To-day the children of aliens often assume less con- tinental-sounding surnames; thus MacLow was a few years ago Michaelowski. MBDICULUS. FADED DAGUERREOTYPES (10th S. iv. 208).— What is sometimes spoken of as the "fading" of daguerreotypes is in reality a tarnishing of their silver surfaces similar to that which may be observed on any silver-ware; but whereas the latter is amenable to the discipline of plate-powder and brush, the daguerreotype can be easily ruined by a touch of the finger, and its restoration when tarnished is best entrusted to skilled hands. Few professional portrait photographers liave now any practical acquaintance with the process by which such pictures are produced; but some of the larger photo- Kraphic dealers, such as those in the Charing Cross Road and High Holborn, would doubt- less undertake the renovation, which only needs a little dexterity. The tarnish is removed by treating the daguerreotype with a solution of about ten grains of cyanide of potassium to the ounce of distilled water: and a detailed description of the method employed may be found in, e.g., The British Journal of Photography, July, 1902, p. 585, the best way of resealing (with Canada balsam) being also described therein on p. 263. This latter operation, by the way, is of the utmost importance, for the daguerreo- type is strictly anaerobic, and flourishes in hermetic seclusion. J- DORMER. DTJMAS: ITS PRONUNCIATION (10th S. iv. 189).—In the following lines, quoted by- Sainte-Beuve in his ' Causeries du Lundi, the pronunciation is Duma. The Dumas is a river of the Isle of Bourbon :— Sous la tranquille azur du plus doux des climats, Une humble maisonnette aux bords de la Dumas, SO. Ml. Lacaussade wrote the verses. E. YARDLEY. On reading MR. PLATT'S query, I at once asked two Parisian friends how they pro- nounce Dumas, Barras, and Genlis. The answer was given without hesitation, Duma, Barrasse, Genlisse. One of them added that he did not think it possible for any French- man to call the well-known author Dumasse. If Dumas had so pronounced his own name, the fact would surely be known. M. HAULTMONT. HENRY SANDERSON, CLOCKMAKER (10th S. iv. 148).—Quoting from 'Kent's Directory for 1781, Wood, in his interesting book en- titled 'Curiosities of Clocks and Watches from the Earliest Times,' 1866, at pp. 346-8, gives a list of sixty-seven watch and clock makers, in which the name of Henry San- derson, of 301, Strand, duly appears, but there are no further particulars of nim. The number given seems be very small for those following this useful craft only a century and a quarter ago. One of the craftsmen whose names are m this list would appear to have been some- thing of a mechanical genius, and rather more than an ordinary watchmaker. This was Ralph Gout, of 6, Norman Street, Old Street, and Mr. Wood says that one of his watches was of more than usual merit, for on it " time and measure were united ; while a gold watch now in South Kensington Museum contains also the mechanism of a pedometer, the latter being purchased for 20Z. 10s. Mr. Wood does not mention any of the others as having been conspicuous for special work.