The Photographic art journal

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1870
 

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Page 60 - The exhibitions will take place in permanent buildings, about to be erected adjoining the arcades of the Royal Horticultural Gardens. The productions of all nations will be admitted, subject to obtaining the certificate of competent judges that they are of sufficient excellence to be worthy of exhibition. The objects in the first exhibition will consist of the following classes, for each of •which will be appointed a reporter and a separate committee : — I.
Page 63 - I have now indicated lead all to substantially the same estimate of the dimensions of molecular structure. Jointly they establish with what we cannot but regard as a very high degree of probability the conclusion that, in any ordinary liquid, transparent solid, or seemingly opaque solid, the mean distance between the centres of contiguous molecules is less than the hundred-millionth, and greater than the two thousand-millionth of a centimetre.
Page 63 - Imagine a rain drop or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule being magnified in the same proportion. The magnified structure would be coarser grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket balls.
Page 60 - ... scientific discoveries. Every artist-workman, moreover, it was stated, would be able to exhibit a work of merit as his own production, and every manufacturer might distinguish himself as a patron of art by his alliance with the artistic talent of the country. In the Fine Art section the artist might exhibit a vase for its beauty of painting, or form, or artistic invention ; whilst a similar vase might appear in its appropriate place among manufactures on account of its cheapness, or the novelty...
Page 15 - Wales. Vice-Presidents— His Grace the Archbishop of York, the most Noble the Marquis of Drogheda, the Right Hon, the Earl of Caithness, the Right Hon.
Page 59 - Exhibitions of selected Works of Fine and Industrial Art will be opened in London at South Kensington, on Monday the 1st May 1871, and be closed on Saturday the 30th September, 1871.
Page 32 - After soaking the gelatine in the water for a few hours it is dissolved by gentle heat, and then filtered through flannel. The zinc white is placed in a mortar with the glycerine and one ounce of the water, and made into a soft paste. It is then stirred into the warm gelatine, and allowed to stand for a couple of hours, keeping the solution warm to allow the coarser particles to settle to the bottom ; the upper portion is then carefully decanted to get rid of the sediment, or, if it be allowed to...
Page 16 - ... but it is only within the last two or three years that it has been regarded with tolerance by practical gun makers.
Page 35 - From its construction it appears to have been built about the latter part of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century, and has withstood the ravages of over three hundred and fifty years.
Page 59 - Commissioners propose to carry on the work of bringing about a closer alliance between artistic design and usefulness of purpose, by " stimulating the application of the artists' talents to give beauty and refinement to every description of object of utility.

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