individuals who might monopolise the benefits to be derived
from its practice, and shut out all chance of improvement.
Like a true, noble hearted French gentleman he desired that his
invention should spread freely throughout the whole world.
With these views he opened negociations with the French government
which were concluded most favorably to both the inventors,
and France has the "glory of endowing the whole world of
science and art with one of the most surprising discoveries
that honor the land."

Notwithstanding this, it has been patented in England and the result
is what might have been expected: English pictures are far below
the standard of excellence of those taken by American artists.
I have seen some medium portraits, for which a guinea each had
been paid, and taken too, by a celebrated artist, that our poorest
Daguerreotypists would be ashamed to show to a second person,
much less suffer to leave their rooms.

CALOTYPE, the name given to one of the methods of Photogenic drawing
on paper, discovered, and perfected by Mr. Fox Talbot of England,
is precisely in the same predicament, not only in that country
but in the United States, Mr. Talbot being patentee in both.
He is a man of some wealth, I believe, but he demands so high
a price for a single right in this country, that none can be found
who have the temerity to purchase.

The execution of his pictures is also inferior to those taken by
the German artists, and I would remark en passant, that the Messrs.
Mead exhibited at the last fair of the American Institute, (of 1848,)
four Calotypes, which one of the firm brought from Germany last Spring,