164 THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. 
museums and libraries, but how gratefully would some enlarge- 
ments of these races be received by the scientific bodies at Home 
and on the Continent. Take again the case of the Fiji Islands: 
how valuable a history of this new addition to our country may 
e made by a carefully regulated tour with the camera. Man- 
s and customs, races ‘and h abitations, everything of real 
interest might be faithfully made to the general benefit of all— 
interesting to the general public who like to know all about such 
t ease interesting to RA in the eta of t e eae ; 
familiar facts; so astonishing is this branch of photography 
that if required all the books in the British Museum library - 
hi 
might be reduced and packed in a chest of drawers. I m 
go on enumerating for a long time the many applications of 
photography, but I must desist ; _ it to say, that all who 
‘are engaged in the study of art or science find in photography a 
valuable friend ;—to the biaaicitecterres it has became a necess 
and its service in daily life as a portraitist is simply cxbounle 
I a do better than finish this paper in the words of a writer 
Year Round, “Tf you do not secahiestati photography, 
learn it at once. 
