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It is to be hoped that members of the Club generally will assist in 
preserving, as far as possible, records and objects connected with the 
past. In these days of rapid change and fresh notions, the interesting 
links between the past and the present are very apt to become lost, 
with the result that the origins of many of our modern sayings, 
customs, and even appliances, are not capable of being traced at all. 
The Anthropological Section of the Club is making it its business to 
preserve, as far as possible, all that survives bearing upon the origin 
and evolution of these things, known only to us in their recent garb, 
more especially those of our own county, 
No more interesting subject than a collection of folk-lore specimens 
could well be found to furnish some of the cases in that museum of 
the future which has so long been the dream of members of this 
Club.—Epwarp Lovett, Hon. See. 
Photographic Sub-Committee.—Despite the tranquillity that at pre- 
sent prevails in the photographic world, the Section still continues to 
absorb a large amount of individual interest; the attendance of the 
meetings devoted to the Section have not been so well attended as one 
might wish. 
Meetings and lantern evenings have taken place during the year. 
Thanks are due to the editors of ‘The British Journal of Photo- 
graphy,’ ‘The Amateur Photographer,’ and also ‘The Magic Lantern 
Journal,’ for the free copies sent during the past year for the use of 
members in the reading-room. 
A number of excursions were arranged and carried out, but the 
attendance on many occasions was very limited. 
At the Soirée this year the sectional exhibit well maintained its 
standard of excellency, frames numbering nearly one hundred being 
hung, comprising all well known processes, and several new printing 
methods. <A large table in the Small Hall was as usual devoted to 
an excellent exhibit of lantern-slides and transparencies, the work of 
members; three lantern exhibitions of members’ slides taking place 
during the evening in the Old School of Art Room. Ina room at end 
of corridor an interesting demonstration of the X Rays was given by 
Messrs. Watson & Sons; also Messrs. Thorn & Hoddle exhibiting the 
Acetylene Gas in the Small Hall: both these exhibits professing 
themselves valuable adjuncts to photography in the future. 
The membership of the Section continues about the same. Several 
lockers are now vacant, and any member who wishes to retain one 
for the coming year may do so by kindly advising the Honorary 
Secretary.—Harry D. Gower, Hon. Sec. 
Since the above Report was received, Mr. Gower has again 
written to me lamenting the apathy of the members of the 
Photographic Section in not attending the meetings. As he 
truly observes, ‘‘it-ought not to be expected that the committee 
can work independently of the sectional members’; and if 
there is not a better attendance and more interest taken in 
the demonstrations, it must become a question whether we are 
justified or not in going to the expense of the dark room. I 
have already suggested that a committee should take the other 
