. The Photographic art-journal . r half plates, all of which shall be mount-ed with G. C. Matts (oval or doubleEliptic.) The above resolution was amended so asto read one frame, and that the name ofeach contributor be placed on the frame,and that the picture become the propertyof the association. Moved, that all the members of this as-sociation be requested to bring to our next meeting a half plate picture, as a specimenof their skill. Moved, that Profs. Evans and Curry beappointed a Committee on daguerrean che-mistry. Moved, that a vote of thanks be trnder-ed to the officers of this associati
. The Photographic art-journal . r half plates, all of which shall be mount-ed with G. C. Matts (oval or doubleEliptic.) The above resolution was amended so asto read one frame, and that the name ofeach contributor be placed on the frame,and that the picture become the propertyof the association. Moved, that all the members of this as-sociation be requested to bring to our next meeting a half plate picture, as a specimenof their skill. Moved, that Profs. Evans and Curry beappointed a Committee on daguerrean che-mistry. Moved, that a vote of thanks be trnder-ed to the officers of this association, fortheir able manner in discharging their duty. Moved, that a vote of thanks be tender-ed to J. Davie, for the use of his Hall Moved, that the proceedings be publish-ed in the Photographic Art-Journal, andScientific Daguerrean. Moved, that we adjourn lo meet in Au-burn on the first Tuesday of May D. T. DAVIE, President. G. N. Barnard, Secretary. From the Illustrated Magazine of Art,AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES AT THE LOUVRE,. •F, a century after the con-quest of Mexico and Peru,any archaeologists had beenfound to take as lively aninterest in American anti-quities as Botuvini Bena-duci did •* and if any vir-tuosi, forgetting, for a moment,the chefs aVceuvre of Rome andAthens, had devoted themselves,as did the Italian traveler, to thestudy of the somewhat barbarousarts, it is true, of the Aztecas, there might * Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci was born of anold family in Milan, and went, in 1733, to NewSpain. It was the Countess of Santillane, a de-scendant of Montezuma, who sent him to Mexico,to look after her affairs there. While engaged inthe discharge of his duties, the Italian archaeolo-gist made the most incredible researches, in orderto collect Aztec antiquities, learned the languageof the Indians, and did not return to Europe beforehe had spent eight years in his scientific would take too much time to relate here howBoturinis collections were despoiled, how he
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