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June 12, 1868.] THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. excellent as a preservative process; but the tendency of practice has been to pursue dry instead of moist preservative processes, on account of the risks from dust, &c., of the latter. We shall be glad to receive our correspondent’s further experiences.—Ed.] Salk in tbe Studia. Competition for Presentation Print.—With a view to secure the greatest novelty and excellence in a presentation print for distribution amongst their members, the Committee of the North London Photographic Association have resolved to advertise for suitable specimens. The detailed conditions of competition will be found stated in our advertising columns this week. From the excellence of the presentation prints this Society has hitherto distributed, a considerable amount of prestige will attach to the selection made in a case of competi tion. We hope that many very fine examples of the art will be submitted to the Committee. Biographical Photographic Albums. — The Stationer says:—“The photographic album makers may perhaps take a hint from a novelty about to be introduced to the American trade. The article referred to is entitled the ‘ Biographic and Photographic Family Record, arranged for recording in detail the Personal Incidents of each Member of the Family.’ The first page contains the record of the names, birth, marriage, &c., of both husband and wife, and spaces for the photographs of each, to be inserted at several different ages ; also space for recording the name, date, place of birth, and death of the parents and grandparents of each, including three generations, and for other incidents in the life of each. The remainder of the volume is appropriated to the records of the descendants of the first-named parties, an entire page being devoted to each, containing the name, date, and place of birth, with space for five photographs at different ages ; also for the character and period of whatever diseases they may have had, and the height and weight at different ages, with the schools at which they were educated, occupations, and other events of their lives. An additional blank page for each child enables the parents to record whatever other incidents may seem desirable to be remembered. Now that the album trade is beginning to wane, a new business might be created in an article such as is above referred to.” The Case of Piracy—Graves v. Ashford.—In this caso a rule had been obtained calling upon Alderman Sir R. Carden and Mr. Graves to show cause why the former should not state a case setting forth the facts and grounds of his judgment or determination upon the hearing and conviction ot Mr. Ashford, upon thirty-seven separate complaints made by Mr. Graves against Mr. Ashford, for unlawfully selling copies of certain photographs, in which the former claimed to have the copyright. Upon the hearing it was contended that the photo graphs sold by the defendant were not copies of photographs that had been registered by the plaintiff, but were original photographs, not from the engravings, and further that the particulars of the registration did not contain a sufficient description. Aiderman Sir R. Carden, upon being applied to refused to state a case for the opinion of this Court, on the ground that he considered the objections raised by the defen dant were frivolous. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Montagu Williams appeared to show cause against the rule : Mr Poland and Mr. Taiford Salter in support of it. Rule absolute. Nitrate of Nickel in PHOTOGRAPHY.— It is stated that Herr Wothly, of Aix-la-Chapelle, whose experiments in uranium printing are familiar to photographers, has been recently engaged in working out a process in which nitrate of nickel plays an important part. The details have not been published. Neutral Nitrate Baths.—We have received several examples of photography, since our last article on Mr. McLachlan’s communication, to illustrate the result of using a perfectly neutral nitrate with bromo-iodized collodion. Several correspondents state that they have avoided free nitric acid, working successfully with perfectly neutral conditions. PREPARATION of Litmus Paper.—Mr. Vachor says, in the Chemical News:—“ I have had much trouble in obtaining a thoroughly satisiactory litmus paper. When used with blotting-paper it is not as delicate as could be wished, and on one occasion, when attempting to make it with sized paper, the blue tincture persistently turned red when it touched the paper. The latter reaction seemed to be due to the sizing material, and it occurred to me that if I sized some paper my self with pure gelatine, my object would be obtained. I can recommend the following receipt:—Digest 20 grin, litmus with 100 c c. water for some time, shaking occasionally ; then filter. To the filtrate add a slight excess of nitric acid, and boil ; then neutralise exactly with potash. Now make a weak solution of gelatine by boiling 1 part of isinglass with 50 parts of water; draw white blotting-paper through this, and hang it up to dry. When dry paint one side with the above solution of litmus.” The Future of Photography.—An able article with this title in Once a Week predicts that carbon printing must become universal in the future of photography. After entering into some detail, the writer concludes thus :—“ Of the permanency of pictures thus obtained there can be little doubt; the material of them is carbon, one of the most stable pigments known to exist, and the constituent of all the black paints and inks in common use. Butitisnot necessary that this material alone be used—any colouring matter may be mixed with the gelatine to form the shadows of the print. This constitutes a truly wonderful element in the process, for it allows a drawing to be absolutely reproduced in the very pigment used by the artist. I have seen an Indian ink drawing copied in Indian ink, and a sepia one in sepia ; and, better still, a red-chalk sketch duplicated in the chalk used to make it. Photography in its simplest garb is a marvel ; but this multiplying of pictures, both in form and an material, by photogenic action, passes beyond the category of marvels, and becomes almost miraculous. As yet, not many photographs of this class are in the market; but they will soon come. Mr. Swan, finding his baby outgrowing his powers of attention, has sold his patent for England to a small company, which is preparing to inaugurate the new system gracefully by issuing copies of a few of the masterpieces of modern English art. Mr. Ward’s ‘ Last Moments of Charles II.,’ Mr. Poynter’s ‘ Israel in Egypt,’ and some works of Millais, Ansdell, Maddox Brown, Linton, and others, are in progress of reproduction ; and the impressions from these may be looked for as the poineers of an invading army that must ere long drive the existing class of photographs off the field: copyright holders will then have more serious grounds for alarm at the pecula tions of the pirates. The forthcoming prints will be called autotypes. In the meanwhile the Continent has gone a little to windward of us. Mr. Swan some time ago sold rights of work ing the process to M. Adolphe Braun, of Dornach, and went over to give instructions and make arrangements for its practice on a considerable scale. From M. Braun’s establish ment five hundred prints have of late daily emanated, and arrangements have probably by this time been completed for trebling this number. This indefatigable artist has worked his camera through the galleries of Italy, Germany, France, and elsewhere, and secured thousands of negatives of treasured old masters’ drawings. These he has multiplied in absolute fac simile, and now, for a few shillings, we may buy a study by Michael Angelo, a design by Albert Durer, or a sketch by Raphael, so accurately counterfeited, that were original and copy placed side by side the eye could scarcely detect a differ ence between them. Surely this is the greatest triumph that any reproductive art has yet achieved. The British Museum authorities have signified their opinion upon the merits of the new method by ordering the drawings under their charge to bo copied by it. M. Braun, too, lately, in his way typified the relative values of the old and new systems by burning every silver print in his possession.” Halo Printing.—A correspondent of the Philadelphia Photographer says :—“ I select a thin piece of glass the size of the negative printed from; next I make a block, either oval or whatever shape I wish it, bevel it on one side, and then glue it on the glass plate, bevelled side down. After I have made my vignette in the ordinary way, I take off the vignette board and negative, and in their place lay on my glass with the block ; this, of course, reverses the order of things, covering up the print where before it had been exposed, and exposing where it had been covered. The block, of course, must be on the centre of your glass, in order to cover up the image, and should extend over the edges enough to leave a white circle between the figure and the outside dark edge. Print to suit the taste, either dark or light. You will notice that this requires no extra printing-frame, as the same can be
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