The Story of Photography #249087

IT is not long since it was common to hear people say of Photography, 0 there is nothing in it It has gone as far as it can go. This was of course the popular verdict; but there were practical men too who were of opinion that little more was to be expected from it. It would be hard to find the man who would say as much to day. SO many advances has Photography made of late — so important has it become as an aid to general science — that it is not easy to over-esti mate its claims on the attention of investigators, or to say in what direction its next conquests may not be achieved.