THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. VOLUME XIX. EDITED BY G. WHARTON SIMPSON, M.A., F.S.A. Nulla recordanti lux est ingrata.-MARTIAL. PRINTED AND LONDON: PUBLISHED BY PIPER AND CARTER, 15 & 16, GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET, E.C. EMU 1-22-26 LIBRARY EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY YPSILANTI PREFACE. HE Nineteenth Volume of the PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS, to which these after words will THI stand as Preface, is the record of the observation and experiment, the discussion of theory, and statement of practice, of a year of unusual activity in many departments of our young but rapidly progressive art. The Preface to a volume serves many varied purposes: sometimes it is necessary to affirm the very right of existence claimed by the book; often it affords opportunity of preparatory explanations; and occasionally it assumes the tone of apology for sins of omission or commission which the book may contain. Our Preface has none of these purposes. The pages which have been issued from week to week have, we hope, established their own raison d'étre, and furnished, in their progress, explanation or apology, if any were needed. We write a Preface, partly because it has become customary, and partly because it affords the Editor an opportunity of speaking to his readers in a somewhat less impersonal fashion than is common in the ordinary forms of journalism. The completed Volume of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five is in the hands of our readers, and it needs no comment from us. As regards the future we have no new programme to offer. Our work in the past will be our work in the future. We have aimed to record, with completeness, and, where possible, to initiate or stimulate, progress in every department of photography, and the branches of art and science associated with it. We have endeavoured to aid the research of experimentalists and investigators, and to chronicle the results of their labours; to give wide currency to the teachings of the experience of the ablest practical men; to clear away the difficulties of the student; to announce discoveries and collate facts bearing upon photography in cognate sciences; to enforce and aid art culture amongst photographers; to consider and discuss the social, industrial, and commercial phases of the art; to aid in the advancement, in short, of photography in its every phase as science, art, and commerce, and to consider the interests of those devoted to its practice, amateur or professional-these have been our general aims in the |