cxiv Proceedinr/s. 



The following excursions have been made during the year : — 

 May 14th, Oxted and neighbourhood. June 1st, Ockley and Capel. 

 June 22nd, Betehworth to Brockham Green. July 6th, Eeigate. 

 August 10th, Lingfield. August 31st, Balcombe. 



With the exception of the months of May and June, the year 1889 

 can hardly be said to have been favourable for out-door photography ; 

 good work has nevertheless been done by oiir members, and, in the 

 majority of cases, slides have been made from their negatives for use 

 in the Club lantern. 



The fine optical lantern and kit purchased by the General Com- 

 mittee have proved of the greatest assistance to the Photographic 

 Section, having been used regularly and with great satisfaction 

 throughout the winter months. 



The Sub-Committee desires to call the attention of the members of 

 the Club to the great utility of photography as an aid to scientific 

 investigation. The manipulatory difficulties are small and easily 

 overcome, while the resulting photographs (either paper prints or, pre- 

 ferably, optical lantern-slides) are often of the greatest scientific 

 value. The Sub-Committee and members of the Section will with 

 pleasure assist any member of the Club who is desirous of taking up 

 photography, either as an artistic recreation or as an aid to scientific 

 study. 



Assistance has already been given by members of the Photogi-aphic 

 Section to the Geological and Meteorological Sections ; in order, how- 

 ever, that the work may be systematised, it may be expedient, at a 

 future time, to appoint a Photo-scientific Committee, consisting of (say) 

 two members of each Section of the Club, to draw up a circular 

 pointing out the best methods of securing photographs of scientific 

 value, and the means by which these photographs may be most con- 

 veniently made available for general reference. 



During tlie past year 6 excursions and the same number of 

 photographic rambles were arranged, and were the means of 

 imparting useful knowledge and recreation to those engaged, as 

 we see from some of the reports which have been received. 

 Unfortunately your President was never able to join in them, 

 for although Bank Holidays come and go for many, those days 

 are as other days to the medical man. 



The ordinary Monthly Meetings have been fairly well supplied 

 with Papers during the past year. 



Febniary 13f/i. — Mr. Lovett read a Paper (Trans., Art. 74) " On 

 some practical hints and suggestions on the preparation of 

 objects for the Microscope," in which he briefly referred to the 

 various methods of preparing objects for the microscope, namely, 

 dry, in cells in Canada balsam, glycerine jelly and fluids of 

 different kinds ; and gave some practical hints with regard to 

 each. As the paper appears in our Transactions, further 

 reference to its contents is unnecessary here. 



March 13th, — Mr. Charles Hussey read a Paper " On the 

 application of Photography to scientific research." He com- 



