exlvili Proceedings. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC SuB-COMMITTEE. 
The Photographic Section has again passed through rather a quiet 
year, and it is very difficult to point to any particular cause for this. 
Counter attractions may have a great deal to do with it, as well 
as lack of interesting matter photographically, the past year being 
singularly deficient of anything of a particularly startling nature. The 
meetings might have been considerably better ‘attended. 
Meetings and lantern evenings have taken place during the year. 
The Club being now affiliated to the Royal Photographie Society, who 
issue a series of lectures of photographic interest, the Section has 
availed itself of them during the past year at the rate of one per 
month, and the supply will continue well into the new year and 
following autumn. 
Thanks are due to the editors of ‘The British Journal of Photo- 
graphy,’ ‘The Amateur Photographer,’ and also ‘The Magic Lantern 
Journal,’ for free copies sent during the past year for the use of 
members in the reading-room. It may also be mentioned that the 
editor of ‘The Photographic News’ has kindly undertaken to supply 
a copy in the coming year. 
The excursions this year were perhaps hardly better attended than 
usual, and in some few instances the number was very limited. 
During the spring of the year a small loan collection of photographs, 
organized by Mr. Horsley-Hinton, editor of the ‘Amateur Photo- 
grapher,’ was arranged by several of the Sectional Committees, who 
acted as guarantors against any loss or expense which might have 
been entailed, and although the attendance during the two days’ 
exhibition was limited, the tickets taken up by the Committee and 
members not only paid all expenses, but resulted in a surplus of 
£2 16s. 8d. being handed over to the Honorary Treasurer. 
The ‘ Portfolio,’ which was suggested by Mr. C. Moss and started at 
the beginning of the year, is so far very successful, and the contributors 
are gradually increasing. Thanks are due to Mr. Grundy for pre- 
senting the Section with two excellent portfolios for the purpose. The 
first batch of prints were sent out in April last, and fresh batches of 
prints have been issued each month (excepting July and August, owing 
to holidays); the result has been that eighty-one pictures have passed 
through the members’ hands for criticism, and it may be mentioned 
that any fresh member who takes up photography, and would like to 
join, can obtain all the desired information from the Honorary 
Secretary of the Section. 
The Club lantern has undergone a slight alteration through the 
kindness of Mr. Baldock, the Honorary Lanternist, who, at his own 
expense, has had a much-needed new front tube fitted, to take a lens 
of better definition, thereby improving the projective power of the 
instrument. 
The Soirée this year was well maintained as far as the sectional 
exhibit went, some ninety frames being hung in the corridor, and over 
four hundred lantern-slides upon a large table in the Small Hall. 
Lantern exhibitions were held in the Old School of Art Room during 
the evening, alternating with an excellent exhibition of animated 
photographs by Messrs. Noakes and Norman, of Greenwich. The 
Kromskop was exhibited in the Small Hall by Mr. J. H. Baldock, and 
the Bridges-Lee Photo-Theodolite by Mr. L. Casella, an instrument 
