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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. Vol. XI. No. 461.—July 5, 1837. CONTENTS. PAGE The Medals at the French Exhibition 313 Cabinet Portraits... 314 Critical Notices 315 Echoes of the Month. By an Old Photographer 316 Report of the Commission Appointed to Award the Prize of 8,000 Francs Presented by the Duc de Luynes for the Best Photo Mechanical Printing Process 317 Fine Art Copyright 318 Transferring Negatives. By Walter Woodbury 319 On the Manufacture of Collodion. By W. A. Terry 319 PAGE How to Prevent Sensitized Paper from Turning Brown, &c. By H. J. Newton 320 Recent Patents 320 Prooceedings of Societies—Photographic Society of Marseilles... 321 Correspondence—Carbon Printing, Photo-lithography, &c.— The Cause of Flare—Collodio-Albumen Process—Reducing Nitrate Solutions — Keeping Bromo-Iodized Collodion- Eliminating Sulphur from Prints, &c.—Fothergill Process: Hard Wat- r for Printing Baths 322 Talk in the Studio 324 To Correspondents 324 THE MEDALS AT THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. Tub awards of the j urors at the French Exhibition, intended, as the Emperor said, to reward “ those who have most distin guished themselves in those works which enrich nations, embellish life, and soften manners,” are officially pub lished, and the verdict of the jurors, although it cannot be altered, will now be submitted to the verdict of the public. The gold medallists alone received invitations to be present at the public distribution of the awards. There are five degrees of honour implied in the awards : the great prize, a gold medal of special character for special merit; gold medals; silver medals; bronze medals; and honourable mention. The medal—for a sight of the design of which we are indebted to Messrs. Johnson and Son, of Castle Street, Holborn, to whom the copyright has been conceded*—is about three inches in diameter, and bears on the obverse a well-cut profile head of the Emperor, and on the reverse a couple of chubby undraped children, bearing between them the tablet upon which will be inscribed the name of the recipient of the medal. The design of the reverse is simple and somewhat commonplace. The decisions of the jurors in awards of honour rarely give perfect satisfaction, as a large number of competitors must necessarily be disappointed. The outrageous breach ol good faith aud good taste which has been already announced in connection with the fine art medals—we refer to the whole of the twelve French jurors awarding twelve medals to their own works—has prepared the public for further disclosures of injustice. In relation to photography, however, we are happy to think that, whilst some disappointments are inevitable, and possibly some miscarriages of justice also, yet, on the whole, the awards of medals to English photo graphy very fairly meet the merits of the competitors. It is true that whilst English photography has only received eight silver medals, French photography has received not less than twenty-one ; and whilst English photography has only received thirteen bronze medals, French photography has received twenty-one ; yet we can scarcely quarrel with the verdict, for if it fail to represent fairly the relative excellence of the photography of the two countries gene rally, it is certainly very nearly justified by the merits of their respective displays in the International Exhibition. It is in relation to the gold medals only that we think serious complaint can be made. English photography has received no gold medal. It is true that Mr. Dallmeyer and Mr. Ross have each received gold medals for optical instru ments, but not in the photographic department. Photo- * Messrs. Johnson showed us some very handsome show cards with the Tacsimiles of the medals in gold, silver, and bronze. They will also shortly supply advertisers with stereo blocks for printing. graphy in no country, we believe we are correct in saying, received a gold medal by the award of the class jurors, and possibly none sufficiently deserved it. But by the action of some superior tribunal, or rather of some tribunal having superior power, three gold medals were subsequently awarded to Frenchmen. M. Garnier received the grand prix for his heliographic engraving. M. Garnier has for many years been a skilful worker in the inventive department of photo graphy, and has done good service, and we do not begrudge him any honour or reward he may obtain ; but, estimating his merits by results, we cannot help asking the question, are his claims superior to those of Talbot, Pietsch, or Dallas ? 'The pictures of the last-named gentleman are, it is true, by a secret process, and hence are legitimately dis qualified for an award of honour: but this being so, how is it that M. Lafon de Camarsac received a gold medal ? His work is very beautiful, but his process is secret. The artist is better for his knowledge, but what benefit does the art derive? Surely the processes of Swan aud Woodbury, the details of which are published, are of infinitely greater importance to the art, by extending its economical applica tions, and giving permanency to its results, than is a secret process of photo - enamelling. The award to Tessie du Mothay and M. Mareschal is, we think, worthily given; but if the enamelling process of these gentlemen is so valuable as to form an element for securing for them a gold medal, surely the beautiful enamelling process of Herr Grne, which promises such important economic results, was worthy of something more than a bronze medal. Leaving the gold medals awarded by the superior jury, we will now give the details of the awards of the class jury, which will, we think, for the most part, give satisfaction, although some modifications and additions in the English awards might have been made, perhaps, without disadvan tage. We reprint from the official list, only correcting, in some places, obvious mis-spelling of names. The special grounds for which the awards are made are rather vaguely and, in some cases, manifestly incorrectly stated. Mr. Blan chard, for instance, receives a bronze medal for “ portraits,” whereas his contributions are figure studies and instantaneous stereographs. Mr. Robinson receives a silver medal for “ views,” whilst his contributions are all figure compositions. Silver Medals—English Department. Bedford Dallmeyer ... England Mudd Robinson Swan Thompson, Thurston Woodbury ... Landscapes ... Lenses ... Landscapes ... Landscapes ... Landscapes (should be picto rial compositions) ... An improved carbon process ... Views ... New mode of printing