Robert Hunt on pages 38ff of the "Art-Journal" discusses the advantages of negatives on glass and decries the patent laws preventing development in England as rapid as that in France in photography; instructions and advice appear on p.147 for those who "are at a distance from other sources of information” on the construction and use of a camera, and the selection of lenses; a report on M. Blanquart-Evrard’s  ‘Improvements in Photography’ includes instructions for preparing and sensitising albumen paper for use ‘dry’ in the camera; an essay on page 261 “Photography: On Paper and on Glass” notes that “it is eleven years since Mr Fox Talbot’s” announcement of his photographic process and asserting that “the Talbotype at this moment remains the best and most practical of the photographic processes hitherto proposed” compared to the Daguerreotype’s “delicately constituted and easily destroyed image” on a “heavy and expensive metallic plate,” the essay going on to provide detailed instructions on evenly coating glass with albumen and sensitising with ‘iodide of silver’, in effect a ‘Talbotype’ on glass and its transformation, with added silver in development, into a positive image.