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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
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- Ausgabe No. 1299, July 27, 1883 465
- Ausgabe No. 1300, August 3, 1883 481
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- Ausgabe No. 1303, August 24, 1883 529
- Ausgabe No. 1304, August 31, 1883 545
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- Ausgabe No. 1307, September 21, 1883 593
- Ausgabe No. 1308, September 28, 1883 609
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- Ausgabe No. 1311, October 19, 1883 657
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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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Botts. A second edition of “ The Photographic Studios of Europe ” will be published next month. The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London are preparing to issue, as a part of this year’s series, three views of portions of Lambeth Palace—the Gatehouse, the exterior of the Library, and the so-called Lollards’ Tower. On the completion of our lessons on Printing, Toning, Mounting, &c., we shall publish “ Twelve Elementary Lessons on Optics ; ” these will be from the pen of Captain Abney. Some neat little menus have recently been printed by Mr. Jabez Hughes, of Ryde, for Her Majesty’s luncheon parties. A couple of trout lying, as if freshly caught, upon a pebbly bank, or a brace of grouse upon the heather, and other similar designs, form an appropriate heading to the cards ; but the especial attraction lies in the circum stance that the subjects have all been chosen and worked by members of the Royal family. The original sketch is in pen and ink, and this has then been copied and printed by platinotype upon cards of suitable size. Mr. Hughes wisely chose platinotype, since the process not only gives the original colour best, but permits printing direct upon cardboard, upon which the menu itself may be written, without difficulty. Another reason, too, we must not forget, is that Her Majesty always insists on permanent photography when she can get it. The production of fancy menu cards of this kind is an occupation that will commend itself especially to amateurs. Instead of pen and ink sketches, there is no reason why photographs taken direct of fruit and flowers, and game and fish, should not be utilised. The artistic production of these would necessitate some labour and skill; but once a few suitable negatives secured, the printing would give little trouble. If need be, the blank space to be left white in the photograph might be arranged with a large sheet of white paper or white cloth, the fruit or game being suitably arranged above. As we have shown, the platino type process is most suitable for printing the cards. Dr. Siemens’ plan of getting flowers to bloom and fruit to ripen by electric light does not seem to be quite so practical as was first supposed. M. Deharain, who con ducted a series of experiments in electric horticulture, if we may so designate the science, during the Electric Exhi bition in Paris, says that while electric illumination alone is sufficient to keep plants growing for two months and a-half, the beneficial radiations are not sufficiently powerful to cause the growth of germinating seeds, or to allow of the ripening of fruit in older plants. Several of our scientific contemporaries are making a fuss over the fact of Professor Helmholz, of Berlin, having been ennobled. To us it seems a pity that any man who has made his name renowned in the world of science or art should afterwards change or modify that name. And for little reason, too, for in Germany, the mere prefix of von is by no means an indication of high social standing. When we resided there some years ago, we employed a bootmaker who wrote von before his name, and very good boots he used to make, too; but we did not value our hob-nails any the more because they were the result of a nobleman’s labours. M. Boissonnas, of Geneva, whose name is already familiar to our readers by reason of his improvements in instanta neous photography, has just forwarded us half-a-dozen re markable little pictures. That they are bright in tone, and both artistic and happy in pose, is but a matter of course, for these are features always present in M. Boissan- nas’ work : it is rather the subjects of the photographs that deserve remark. The little pictures represent a group of two, a lady and a lioness, evidently the queen of lion tamers with one of her subjects. The lady, gaily attired, is of handsome proportigns, and smiles so charmingly as she strokes the tawny beast, that, instead of producing a feeling of horror, as one might suppose, the photographs only cause one to exclaim over the lady’s pluck. While on the subject of lions and tigers, we may as well say that during the past week, we ourselves have been troubled with the problem of photographing the wild beast in its lair; for we paid a visit to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s premises to see the vast collec tion of skins gathered together during the year from all parts of the Company’s dominions for the annual sale. There were bears—black and white, brown, and grisly—not a score or so, but 8,976 “ by the book ” ; foxes, wolves, beavers (105,000), lynxes, skunks, wolverines, badgers, martens, minks, otters, &c., &c., floor upon floor of the huge warehouses being filled with these relics from the backwoods. With a scenic background and a little make-belief underwood, an imaginative photographer with his camera could have produced a dozen different wild beast pictures. Among other strange lessons our visit taught us, was that a brown bear is usually any colour but brown, and a silver fox anything but silver. The skin of a strange animal called the “army bear” was shown us, its thick black hide at once suggesting an admirable composition photograph, “ The Army Bear at Bay ”; only we found out subsequently the skin was but that of the ordinary black bear, and received its military name because of the demand for it for grenadiers’ bearskins. As furs and skins play an important role among photographic accessories, it may be well to point out that colour has more to do with the price than any other features. Thus, white or coloured fox skins, let them be ever so pretty, only fetch an average of twelve shillings, while a silver fox skin, almost jet black —for the fewer silver hairs the higher the price—•some times attracts a purchaser at forty or forty-five pounds.
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