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in ten words what I was to do, how and when, and without a why 

 or wherefore. The day before I sailed, they supplied me with a 

 little leather box, precisely nine inches long, five inches broad, and 

 six inches deep, with two stories of bottles and a basement containing 

 scales, pills, plasters, etc. And a little primer, partly printed and 

 partly manuscript^ four inches long, three inches broad and two- 

 tenths of an inch thick ; not quite so large as Hard wick's. With 

 this little box and these sim]3le directions, I have traveled, as an 

 Irishman would say, in five of the four quarters of the globe, work- 

 ing cures and keeping myself in such comfortable condition as you 

 see. It is precisely something like this that the traveler requires in 

 the matter of photography, 



" I am aware, that my friend Mr. Hull would recommend ' the dry 

 process.' But besides being too slow, it is uncertain ; and a traveler 

 cannot turn back to take a second view, when at night he finds his 

 first one has failed, especially when his supply of food for man and 

 beast is short, and his very life depends on getting through ' on 

 time.' And again, in secluded regions, the natives are timid and 

 suspicious, and would face a columbiad as soon as a lens. Ton have 

 to take them, so to speak, ' on the wing,' and for many reasons it is 

 often of first importance to science to present the people you travel 

 amongst, as they are. Trees and plants, as well as men and animals, 

 have also an unfortunate habit of not keeping still for any considera- 

 ble time. The process of the traveler must be a quick one. 



" Preparing plates with honey, etc., etc., answers to a certain extent, 

 but everything that complicates a process and requires new materials 

 is a nuisance and encumbrance to the traveler. And then the tent, 

 and for that matter its substitutes, are all a vexation of the fiesh and 

 the spirit, and provocative of profanity. Besides the time it costs to 

 rig them, it happens, most frequently, when and where they are most 

 needed, there is no room for them, or the wind blows so strongly 

 that they will not stand, and the poor traveling experimentalist sud- 

 denly finds himself smothered under the canvass, with his collodion 

 spilt in his hair, and his bath over his stomach* 



" Oh, ye dwellers in ' galleries ' with roofs of tinted glass, and dark 

 chambers elaborately fitted, with water ad libitum, and all that ! Go 

 forth into the wilderness, and if you do not know anything of photo- 

 graphy, take Hardwick with you, ' and may the Lord have mercy on 

 you ! ' 



Mr. Squier said that during his visit to the Paris Exposition, he 



