Show PROGRESS OF or SCIENCE the french photographers grap bers hers have succeeded by recent improvements in producing perfectly distinct copies oe of the most illegible manuscripts on old oid parch ments the ink under the influence of time assumes a yellowish tint now during the photographic process the brilliant and polished parts of the parchment reflect light much better letter than those where the ink has been deposited however colorless col coi erless it may appear the ink has not lost its anti photogenic qualities qua li opposed to the photogenic ones of the parchment arch ment and ahm thanks to this opposition black elack characters may be obtained on the sensitive surface in return for much paler ones one on the original photographers can also take enlarged or diminished coples copies of manuscripts pictures pic tu statues etc many recent photo graph I 1 examined with a microscope reveal to the th naked led ked eye several of the inner impressions taken toen during the late eclipse and corns of or the solar oness ones onesi are re of this kirr kind t |