The above-named Publication is well known as the best andmost valuable one devoted to the Photographic Science in thiscountry. Humphrey's Journal made its first appearance Nov.1st, 1850, and consequently is the first and oldest serial offered tothe Photographic world.
The art of producing Portraits and Landscapes by means ofLight has recently taken a new and enlivening impulse, whichwill in all probability lead to important and interesting results.No practical Daguerreotypist, Photographer, or amateur should bewithout the means at hand for securing all of the information uponthis subject. Each should be ready to receive and apply the improvementsas they may be developed. In order to accomplish this,it is a matter of great importance to the Practitioner or Experimenterthat he should have a reliable medium through which he canobtain information. In what source can the inquirer better placehis confidence than in a regular Journal, whose editor is literallya practical person, and familiar with the manipulations necessaryfor producing Portraits upon "Daguerreotype Plates," and uponglass and paper? Such is the conductor of Humphrey's Journal.
This Journal is published once every two weeks, and containsall the improvements relating to the Art, and is the only AmericanJournal whose editor is practically acquainted with the processfor producing Daguerreotypes. Ambrotypes, and PhotographsThe first No. of Vol. VIII is dated May 1st, 1856. The terms(Two Dollars per annum) are trifling compared with the vastamount of information furnished.
There are several societies recently established in Europe composedof learned and scientific men, who are in every way engagedin investigating the Science, and we may look for improvementfrom that quarter, as well as from our numerous resources at home.In the former case our facilities for early and reliable informationcannot well be surpassed.
Ambrotypes.—Humphrey's Journal contains everything novelwhich appears upon this subject, and has already presented morenew, important; and original matter than can be found in anyother place.
Many are the letters we have received during the term of thelast volume, in which the writer has stated that a single numberof Humphrey's Journal has contained information of more valueto him than "several times the amount paid for the entire volume."
Our resources have grown up around us, and our facilities forprocuring, as well as distributing, all such facts and improvementsas will benefit as well as instruct all who have the progress ofthe Art at heart, are as ample as they can well be made.
The future volumes will be abundantly furnished with originalwritings from persons of standing in the scientific world; and thepractical Photographer will here find a full account of such improvementsas may from time to time develope themselves.
From the Editor's long practical experience in the HeliographicScience, h