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Mr. Burgess was in Paris in 1840^ learned the orocess; learned 

 there that portraits were taken in New-York. He sat fifteen 

 minutes in the sun with very poor success. He used Bromine in 

 1842; it was old then. 



Mr. Snelling saw a good group of eight as long ago as 1844. 



Mr. Johnson said it took much longer in London than here. 



Mr. Seeley said in February, 1840, Prof. Morse and others met, 

 and the Professor was surprised at the success of Mr. Wolcott. 



Mr. Johnson said images of the sun could be taken by this art, 

 and be overdone as pictures always are of very bright objects, and 

 be then restored by a process he had previously described of ex- 

 posure to vapors before fixing. 



Mr. Stetson asked how quick pictures could be taken. 



Mr. Cady took instantaneous pictures some years ago by a well- 

 known process, but he was not the first. 



A gentleman exhibited a picture taken by artificial light in 

 thirty seconds. 



Mr. Shepard thought Mr. Martin of Paris took, instantaneous, 

 objects of all kinds. 



Mr. Tillman thought Dr. Draper deserved much credit for ex- 

 periments on light. 



Mr. Johnson showed a letter dated 1841, alluding to a rumor 

 that Daguerreotypes had been taken very quick, and by gas light. 



Mr. Seely commended Dr. Draper as a great teacher, lecturer 

 and writer. The time he said could be reduced indefinitely by 

 enlarging the aperture. Prince Albert, he added, had taken 

 pictures and attended meetings of artists in this line. 



Mr. Tillman said photography was retarded in England by the 

 existence of the Talbotype patent, and by the high price charged 

 for the right. 



Mr. Jones read a sketch from the London Athenaeum, on 

 bottled daylight. 



Mr. Stetson asked why portraits cannot be taken instantly. 



Mr. Burgess said pictures can be taken instantaneous only in 

 sunlight. 



