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"photographic transparencies" on glass, which he ex-
hibited in St. Louis, Cincinnati, and other large cities.
"In 1857 he invented a new photo-printing process,
which he called 'homeography,' by which process the
Texas Cotton Bonds were printed during the Civil
War. In 1859 he had an illustrated and biographical
album of the members of the Eighth Legislature
printed, a richly-ornamented copy of which was pre-
sented to President Buchanan, by the citizens of
Austin." During the Civil War DeRyee acted as Texas
State Chemist, and investigated copper and lead de-
posits of the State. In the latter years of his life
(while resident of Corpus Christi or Laredo) he did
much geological work in Southwestern Texas and
Northern Mexico. He died at Corpus Christi, 23 May,
1903.
J. H. S. Stanley (1800-?) was a photographer of
English birth, resident of Houston, . . . 1850-70. ...
He was much interested in astronomy; was a corres-
pondent in 1851 of the Daguerrean Journal. At the
end of November, 1850, a series of "Scientific and
Literary Lectures" was planned by a number of gen-
tlemen of Houston, Stanley among them. His lecture
on astronomy seems to have been well-attended (Tele-
graph & Texas Register, Nov. 27, 1850). In 1857 he
was a correspondent of the U. S. Commission of Patents
on agricultural topics. From December, 1869, to Octo-
ber, 1870, he made meteorological observations in Hous-
ton for the Smithsonian Institution. (The Smithsonian
Report for 1874, 1875, 111-12, mentions his sending
of manuscript meteorological observations to the In-
stitution.)
These few notes are all I at present have on early
photographers of Texas; but they may serve as a
starting-point for someone in extending that single,
brief paragraph on Texas in Taft's Photography and
the American Scene.
During the summer J. A. Creighton of Corpus Christi came
to Austin to attend a chess tournament and while here came
to this office to talk Texas history. He gave me the name
of Col. Wyatt O. Selkirk of Blessing, Texas, stating that Col.
Selkirk is an authority on certain phases of Texas history.
Col. Selkirk writes that he desires information about William
Selkirk, one of Austin's Three Hundred, about William Mann,
Col. Middleton T. Johnson of Fort Worth and James Wainright191
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