152 THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. 
apap this is a branch of the art which ad pont be 
afew hands. With this exception then, I pre my inven- 
tio nto the country, and trust me hat it may reali our hopes of 
its future utility. —Fox Taro 
Paper, although a convenient, was nevertheless a defective 
medium; it is true it had not the unpleasant mirror-like glare of 
the silver plate, but then the texture was not all that was bene 
its fibrous nature gave oftentime much trouble; it did not absorb 
uniformly the i required, and had many other little ineon- 
veniences. It while our ear rly workers were in this trouble 
ce 
ventors or improvers of photography. is gentleman had been 
a student at the military school of Saumur, and became Lieut. 
of Dragoons in 1842; it was at that time he began to study 
seriously scientific pursuits. He soon found, however, that a 
provincial town afforded him very few chances for beco oming 
known to the men of the day, and accordingly got transferred to 
the Paris ar Snare It was in the gay capital, in a small 
room bel under officer of police, that he pursued 
under _iieens P difficulties ‘his various studies and very interesting 
This discovery opened a new and brighter epoch than had a8 
yet dawned upon the now army of photographers; this process 
1s a perfect enw to all the requirements of the most sanguine 
phemereins, for from se date of its first appearance to the 
it has never ceased . _ itself to be the greatest = 
ms we oe yet Senived, ied 6 wed the invention of photo- 
graphy to be advanced to a eo of perfection hitherto un- 
thought of. 
t was my intention to omit any matter relating to the 
a ae ~ of Dhoteersp hy but the importance of this process 
calls for a passing and short notice of its modus operandi. We — 
