June 18. 1853.] 



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THE WAXED -PAPER PHO- 

 TOGRAPHIC PROCESS of GTJSTAVE 

 LE GRAYS NEW EDITION. TransJated 

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Pure Photographic Chemicals. 



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FIVE BONUSES have been declared ; at the last in January, 1852, the sum of 131,125?. wa* 

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c 



ITY OF LONDON LIFE 



J ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 2. Royal Ex- 

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Subscribed Capital, a Quarter of a Million. 



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ftl 



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MP. 

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