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The Rise and Progress of Photography. 
By Lupovico W. Harr. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 4 December, 1878.] 
= glancing through the world’s history, from the early ages down 
o the present time, we — sm each age or epoch has bee: 
‘Sick d by one or more discoveries or inventions, that have called 
forth the energy of clever aie sikswies inds, which have served to 
benefit the great family of nations; par as age has succeeded age, 
so great and important discoveries have succeeded each other, 
h one vieing with the other in importance and magnitude, and 
so beautifully and wisely have these taken place, that as one has 
become old by the difference of the age and the requirements of 
time, another springs up and fills its place ; thus does nature, 
constantly in her own way, and by her own means, 
regular supply of what is good and beneficial to man. 
ow among those that have characterized the present century, 
there are few, if any, that have been of more service, or are more 
deserving of our gratitude, than that of the invention of photo- 
graphy. Sure and marvellously rapid.has been the progress of 
this art-science, and like steam and electricity it soon hess its 
way round the globe, and I think I may safely say that as 
been at work in many places where the other two have no a as 
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conside f importance—the one giving knowledge and the 
application of that knowledge ; the other ¢ rete all the daily 
intercourse and workings of the great human family. As to 
which of the two is more conductive to our welled i is not in my 
, but an invention combining the two is certainly 
