Transcriber Note Text emphasis is denoted as _Italic_ and =Bold=. Whole and fractional parts of numbers as 123-4/5. HUMPHREY'S JOURNAL OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS. ~~~~~~~~~~ The above-named Publication is well known as the best and most valuable one devoted to the Photographic Science in this country. Humphrey's Journal made its first appearance Nov. 1st, 1850, and consequently is the first and oldest serial offered to the Photographic world. The art of producing Portraits and Landscapes by means of Light has recently taken a new and enlivening impulse, which will in all probability lead to important and interesting results. No practical Daguerreotypist, Photographer, or amateur should be without the means at hand for securing all of the information upon this subject. Each should be ready to receive and apply the improvements as they may be developed. In order to accomplish this, it is a matter of great importance to the Practitioner or Experimenter that he should have a _reliable_ medium through which he can obtain _information_. In what source can the inquirer better place his confidence than in a regular Journal, whose editor is literally a _practical_ person, and familiar with the manipulations necessary for producing Portraits upon "_Daguerreotype Plates_," and upon glass and paper? Such is the conductor of Humphrey's Journal. This Journal is published once every two weeks, and contains all the improvements relating to the Art, and is the only American Journal whose editor is _practically acquainted_ with the process for producing _Daguerreotypes_. _Ambrotypes_, and _Photographs_ The first No. of Vol. VIII is dated May 1st, 1856. The terms (Two Dollars per annum) are trifling compared with the vast amount of information furnished. There are several societies recently established in Europe composed of learned and scientific men, who are in every way engaged in investigating the Science, and we may look for improvement from that quarter, as well as from our numerous resources at home. In the former case our facilities for early and reliable information cannot well be surpassed. Ambrotypes.--_Humphrey's Journal_ contains everything novel which appears upon this subject, and has already presented more new, important; and original matter than can be found in any other place. Many are the letters we have received during the term of the last volume, in which the writer has stated that a single number of Humphrey's Journal has contained information of more value to him than "several times the amount paid for the entire volume." Our resources have grown up around us, and our facilities for procuring, as well as distributing, all such facts and improvements as will benefit as well as instruct all who have the progress of the Art at heart, are as ample as they can well be made.