THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
Wednesday evening was a brilliant one for the Photographic Society. The Council-room of King's College was hung round its four walls with photographs of all sizes and processes, and sent from all quarters; stereo. scopes, new cameras, and specimens of photographic chemicals, lay on the tables, or were set up where scanty room remained ; and the hall was opened to a company including celebrities of the photographic and almost every other class. lie views of sky and sea' which have been at length recently obtained by photographers in such beauty and perfection, were sufficiently represented, and elicited especial admiration. Here were photographs so minute as to look like black pins' heads, unmagnified, while they expanded under the microscope into groups of half-a-dozen personages others—such as splendid views front the Louvre, and of Paris panoLmically—at the opposite extreme of size, measurable by feet; examples of the photo-galvanography of which we speak again this week ; portraits, views, buildings, groups, Holbeins, Rembrandts, and, of the stereoscopes on every hand, some placed within an illuminated lantern, and changing scene at the turn of a screw. Amid all this variety, the thing least variable was the excellence of the show; which, with those individual differences of less and more that make a number of the same objects the more interesting, was first-rate throughout.
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