Reports of Judges. 53 



REPORTS OF JUDGES 



AT THE 



EXHIBITION OF 1867. 



A majority of the reports made by judges to the board of mana- 

 gers were expressed in such brief terms, that their publication 

 would give the reader an incomplete conception of the productions 

 under examination. In other cases, where the judges had the time 

 and opportunity to make compartive tests of articles on exhibition, 

 and to give a detailed description of them, their reports contain 

 many points of special interest which give them a permanent value, 

 and it seems proper that they should have a place among the pub- 

 lished Transactions of the Listitute. The following are copies of 

 the more essential portions of these reports. 



Department I. 

 THIRD GROUP. 



To the Board of Managers, American Institute, Thirty-seventh 

 Annual Exhibition: 



1 



Your committee on the Photographic department, in assigning 

 the first position to No. 1,006 — the collection of Messrs. Huston & 

 Kurtz — would speak in high praise, both of the general excellence 

 of their exhibition, and the superiority of their colored porcelain 

 pictures in particular. By their method of preparing the porcelain 

 for the reception of color, they are enabled to give great delicacy 

 and finish to their work. In their manipulations of the new and 

 valuable carbon process, which aims at greater permanency and a 

 more delicate rendering of light and shade, they exhibit more than 

 usual care, good taste and artistic perception. 



The committee would also speak in high terms of No. 778, 

 the collection of Messrs. Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, of Philadel- 



