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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. VG. XII. No. 530.—October 30,1868. CONTENTS. PAGK The Forthcoming Exhibition of the Photographio Society 517 Alcohol in Developing and Intensifying Solutions 517 New Method of Masking Prints 518 Critical Notices 518 Photography in Egypt 521 Pictorial Effect in Photography. By II. P. Robinson 521 Printing Transparencies on Dry Plates without Cutting the Negatives 523 Sensitive Development Printing Process • 523 PAGE Photographic Printing in Silver, Theoretical and Practical. By W. T. Bovey 524 Correspondence—Salting Formul of Albuminized Paper—Dis tortion and Perspective—Mr. Fry’s Mode of Masking— The Enamels at the Cornwall Polytechnic Exhibition— Status of Photographers 525 Talk in the Studio 527 To Correspondents 528 Photographs Registered 528 THE FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. As our readers are aware, the coming session of the London Photographic Society will be opened with an exhibition of photographs, to be held in the usual meeting room of the Society, at the Architectural Gallery, 9, Conduit Street, Regent Street. The exhibition will be opened on the evening of Tuesday, November 10th, at half-past seven o’clock, when members and their friends, and exhibi tors, are invited to a similar social reunion to that which passed off so pleasantly last year. The original intention in regard to last year’s exhibition merely comprehended the idea of devoting the opening evening of the session to a display of photographs. The number and excellence of the contributions were, however, to great that it was resolved by the council to keep the exhibition open for a week. The success of last year has suggested a repetition of the experiment with a little more pre-arrangement. On this occasion the exhibition will be opened with a distinct understanding at the outset that it will continue open for a week, during which time it will remain open to the public gratuitously. Photographers at large arc invited to contribute, members of the Society and non-members alike, so as to bring together a fair and creditable representation of the present state of English photography. Members of the Society will doubtless feel themselves in some sort bound to aid by their contributions the success of such a display. But photographers at large have an interest in such an en deavour not less than the members of the Society. The value of exhibitions as furnishing at once landmarks of past progress anil aids and incentives to renewed effort scarcely needs enforcing. To amateurs, few things afford more pleasure than the opportunity of examining the various developments of the art, and especially the results obtained by fellow-devotees to some special branch to which they themselves have given attention.. To professional photographers, the opportunity of examining a collection of pictures fairly representing the characteristics and degrees of excellence attained by their professional compeers must be a matter of commercial value, as well as personal interest. And as a large section of the public interested in the progress of science and art will visit this exhibition, all concerned in the reputation of photography should aid, by contributing the best examples they can, to produce a worthy exhibition. Where it is convenient to the photographer, it is of course advisable to send pictures in frames ; but for the accommo dation of those to whom the trouble and expense of framing a large number of pictures might prove an obstacle, un framed pictures will be received for exhibition ; but it will be understood that the mounts in such cases will suffer a ALCOHOL IN DEVELOPING AND INTENSIFYING SOLUTIONS. Ax incidental remark in a communication by Mr. Russell Manners Gordon to our Year-Book of 1866 contained a suggestion the importance of which in practice cannot be over-rated. A recent allusion to this suggestion in one of our own articles has brought several enquiries which induce us to think that simple and self-evident as the idea is, it is little in the process of pinning to the wall and by expo sure for a week without the protection of glass. Collections of prints in portfolios and albums will also form an agree able addition to the contributions. Apparatus of various kinds will be admitted to the exhi bition, and we shall hope to see a good display of the most recent improvements in the mechanical and optical appli ances of photography. Contributions should be delivered at No. 9, Conduit Street, addressed to the Secretary of the Photographic Society, not later than Monday, November 9th. It is desirable that every frame or separate picture should have the name, and number of contributions, of the exhibitor at the back. On the front of each, the name of the exhibitor, the name of the subj ect, and the process employed, should be written for the benefit of visitors, because, in the absence of a catalogue, this will be the only mode in which information on the points indicated can be conveyed. Contributors should also send a list of their contributions, with the name of each subject forwarded for exhibition, addressed to the Secretary of the Photographic Society, at the Gallery in Conduit Street. The meeting will, as on the last occasion, be of the cha racter of a conversazione, without the necessary formality of evening dress, the aim being to secure a social and agree able reunion of all interested in the exhibition. All members, and all contributors who are not members, are in vited to attend and to bring their friends with them, ladies being especially invited. No cards of invitation will be issued, the announcement in the last number of the Society’s Journal, and the invitation, which we are authorized to re peat, being, it is believed, sufficient to bring together a large number of those interested in such a display of photo graphs as it is confidently hoped will be exhibited on this occasion. Wc see no reason to doubt that the great success of last year will be repeated next month. We should be glad to see it surpassed ; and we earnestly invite all our readers, who possibly can, to contribute themselves, and induce their friends to do so as well, so as to bring together such a display as will at once gratify all photographers with the illustrations of present excellence, and stimulate them to greater triumphs.