The subject -- The general practice of infrared photography -- Photographic darkroom practice -- Characteristics of photographic materials -- Photographic sensitizing for the infrared -- The Herschel effect and indirect methods of infrared photography -- Sources of infrared radiation -- Examination and differentiation of materials by infrared -- Medical infrared photography -- Infrared photography applied to botany and palaeontology -- Infrared photomicrography -- Special applications of infrared photography -- Camouflage detection by infrared photography -- Penetration of radiation through the atmosphere. General and theoretical -- Penetration of radiation through fog and haze. Practical observations -- Optical characteristics of materials in the infrared.

"First edition copyright in England, 1939."