The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (October 1889)

eg OF THE OPTICAL MAGIC LANTERN JOURNAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGER. Vol. 1.—No. 5. [eedenteee fan. Price One Penny. CONTENTS. . PAGE | PAGE. : Notes co cee ee eee vee vee B38 | Wanted, a Dark Room ..-3S ‘bhe Magic Lantern: Its Con! How I make Lantern ‘Trans truction, {llumination, Optics, and Uses (chap. 5)... we To Ascertain the Candle-Power of a Light 3 parencies La paminere, ea ON 4 | Renovating Battered Lanterns 3!) Editorial Table... we. 50 6 | Applications for Patents, 1889 29 Two Hints to Workers with Correspondence aa 39 the Lantern .. sve 37 | Camera-Club Notices... «.. 39 Lanterns & Accessories.—III. 37 | Selections ... 0.4 se oe ose 410 A New Limelight .. .. -37 | Notesand Queries ... we 40 ConTENTS OF No. 4. Note:—The Magic Lantern: Its Construction, Illumination, Optics, and Uses—Gelatine Lantern Slides—Lanterns and Accessories— Flashes on Lantern Topics — Novel Use for the Lantern—Editorial ‘Yable—Lantern Slide Competition—Applizations for Patents—Interesting Experiment -— Lantern Flange Screws— Lantern Diagrams — Selections—Notes and Queries. Notices. THe Opical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger is issued on the 15th of every month, price One Penny, and may be obtained from all Newsvendors, Railway News Stalls, Photographic Dealers, or from the Publishers, at the following rates, post free :— Continental. United States. 12months ... 1/6 .. 2/ 60 cents. Go aes 19 we UP wee ee 30 Single copies... [15 + [2 sre vee 6 Advertisements (Scale of Charges), displayed :— 4s ad. Front page... sts aes we 4 0 0 ae ee og we (eighth) ... 15 0 Back ,, or facing matter (whole) --. 3 10 0 ” ” ” ” (half) 2 0 0 i 9 » ~~ (Quarter)... I 2 6 *s “4 a is (eighth) ... II 3 Ordinary page (whole) ... 3 0 0 ‘ 4 chalf) 115 oO i a (quarter)... £ 0 0 “i $i sity .. (eighth) ... “10 0 is ve per Cinch in column ... 6 0 Special quotations for a series. Exchange Column, General Wants and Sales, &c.— 20 words, 6d.; and for every 3 additional words, 1d. Advertisements must reach the office not later than the 12th of each month. All cheques and postal orders to be made payable to Taylor Brothers. Editorial communications must be addressed, ‘The Editor ; advertisements and business communications to Taylor Brothers, care of the Publishers, Dorset Works, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C. OCT. 15, 1889. Notes. We observe that the widow of the late Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, is following in the footsteps of her husband, as we find she is lec-turing in Florida, U.S.A., on astronomical subjects. The lectures are illustrated by views of the heavenly bodies, thrown upon -the screen by the aid of the optical lantern. 2 2 2 Tue copyright of the Camera has recently been purchased by Mr. Jas. Blackmore, and wi!l henceforth be published at 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, W.C, e 2 2 Even in the far north, in the Orkney Islands, the use of the optical lantern as an educational appliance is beginning to be recognised. Already one church secs how to turn it to good account, and has purchased a lantern and a large supply of slides. For two or three winters these have been sent round to all the congregations in the district, and have served to interest and instruct the children and not a few of their seniors at the yearly soirées and social gatherings. By exchanging the old slides for new ones every year, the interest in the exhibitions is fully maintained, and the lantern is found to be the most attractive feature of these meetings. * * * Tue Chicago Camera Club, following the example of Boston, intend circulating among the photographic societies of Great Britain a set of one hundred lantern slides illustrative of Chicago. a =. * IN connection with the West London Mission, “Lantern Lectures for the People’ are to be given during the winter at Wardour Hall on Tuesdays, and at Cleveland Hall on Thursdays. The subjects are the popular ones ofthe day. The lantern is also used on Sundays at Cleveland Hall, and will be brought into requisition to illustrate sermons and lectures. Tue lamp recently experimented with in France to be uscd in the battle-field to scarch for the