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responded to Mr. F. W. East's kind invite to the Photographic Section. 

 Mr. East met the party at the station with carriages in readiness to 

 drive them to the various places of photographic interest in the neigh- 

 bourhood. The route taken was via Smallfield Place, Dowlands Lane, 

 Burstow, Keeper's Common, across Pot Common on to Worth, thence 

 by way of Three Bridges and Crawley to Lowfield Heath, where we 

 were most hospitably entertained by our kind host. 



Technical and conversational meetings have been held on the first 

 Friday in each month throughout the year, and demonstrations on the 

 various branches of photography have been given. Lantern evenings 

 have been held on the third Friday throughout the winter months, and 

 an average of 150 slides have been passed through the lantern on each 

 occasion, a large number of them being of excellent quality. 



At the Soiree this Section was well represented, some 25 members 

 exhibiting transparencies and prints, the work shown being of a very 

 high average. 



I am glad, in conclusion, to be able to say that this Section is in a 

 more flourishing condition than it ever has been ; this is no doubt 

 largely due to the kindness of those members who are always ready to 

 assist and help others who are not so advanced as themselves. — W. 

 Low Sarjeant, Hon. Sec. 



The excursions of the year are referred to under the Eeports 

 of the various Sub-Committees in whose charge they were ; 

 except the one on Whit Monday, May 26th, 1890, which was of 

 a general character, partly perhaps archffiological, and which 

 was imder the direction of our Hon. Secretary, Mr. Bayard. A 

 party of 29 members and friends met at Holmwood Station, and 

 proceeded by lane and field to the old British camp, Austiebury, 

 just above the village of Christchurch : this old earthwork was 

 explored with much interest, and the party descended into Christ- 

 church village, and then ascended to the top of Leith Hill ; the 

 view thence was not good as the weather was too hazy. The road 

 then lay through the woods to the picturesque old village of 

 Friday Street, some photographs of which were secured. 



The party then crossed the Park to Wotton House, where it 

 was most courteously received by Mr. Evelyn, who conducted 

 the members over the house and grounds showing them the 

 quaint old rooms and halls, the picture gallery with portraits of 

 the celebrated John Evelyn and others of the family. In the 

 museum were a number of valuable objects of interest, the chief 

 being the original manuscript of ' Evelyn's Diary,' and a Hortus 

 siccus, or herbarium of mediaeval plants collected about 1685 at 

 the Horticultural Gardens at Padua. The gardens and grounds 

 contained many rare and interesting shrubs and plants, as well 

 as interesting relics of John Evelyn, as shown in the bowers, 

 ten-aces and fountains, arranged or built by him. 



After a most enjoyable visit, the members returned to Croydon, 

 part taking the road direct to Dorking, and the rest proceeding 



