88  PpHOTOGRAPHY—ITS RELATION TO POPULAR EDUCATION. 
civilized countries, and I mention particularly those countries — 
where it has been taken up by their various Governments, in Eng- 
and, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, America, 
Waterhouse. - e most recent addition to this branch has 
ade in France, where a photographic establishment, under the 
direction of the Minister of the Interior, has been put up for the 
service of the Department of Roads and Bridges. This is m 
addition to those already in existence, and employed by the Land 
Survey Office, Public Instruction, Prisons, Bank of France, and 
other minor ones. 
The French correspondent of one of our leading phot 
journals writes from Paris of a meeting of the French Photographic 
Society, January 10th, 1879, in which he states ‘that Monsieur 
Curliez described a possible method of transferring to any in 
distance an image obtained in the camera obscura, with 
intensity of the portions of the negatives through which the 
had passed. By a simple mechanism a pin might be made to yest 
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newspaper, to be brought out weekly, and produced by ese jargely 
i processes NOW PY e 
employ: ed, nor would it be a difficult matter to carry out re bz & 
