e lantern. It will
be found much more agreeable to remove the lantern and substitute in
its place a candlestick and candle. The one known as the camping or
soldier's candlestick is just the thing for a dark lantern. It is a
little over two inches high, and made of brass, and costs only fifteen
cents.

Adamantine candles are the best, as they last twice as long, and do not
melt and run down the sides like the parraffine or tallow candles.

One needs two trays for developing--one 4 x 5 and another 5 x 8. The
smaller tray can be used when one has only two or three plates to
develop, and both trays where one has quite a number. The two trays are
necessary also in transferring the plate from one solution to another,
if the developing does not work satisfactorily. The tray for the
hypo-sulphite of soda or fixing solution should be 5 x 8, so that two
4 x 5 plates can be fixed at one time.

The developing-trays should be of hard rubber or celluloid, and the
hypo-tray of amber glass, so that there shall be no mistaking the
developing for the hypo tray.

A four-ounce glass graduate is needed for measuring liquids, and if one
has no scales, the dry chemicals should be weighed in the right
proportions for use when they are purchased. The hypo can be put up in
half-pound packages, and this quantity of fixing solution prepared at
one time.

A glass funnel is needed for pouring solutions from trays into bottles,
and also for holding the filtering-paper when filtering solutions. The
funnel should be fluted, for the ribs make passages for the liquid to
pass through the sides of the paper, letting the sediment settle at the
bottom of the paper.

If one has not the advantage of running water for fixing and washing
plates it is better to have a washing box in which to place the
developed negatives. The regular washing box is made of zinc, which does
not rust. The inside rack, which holds a dozen plates, is adjustable by
thumb-screws for different-sized plates. The box has a small tube at one
of the lower corners, to which a rubber hose is attached from the
faucet, the water is turned on, and comes up from the bottom of the box,
circulates between the plates, and runs out through an overflow spout at
the top of the box.

The box containing the plates can be transferred from one pail or tub to
another, or set on the floor, while the water is changed, without danger
of breaking or scratching. A boy who is handy with tools can make a