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special opportunities of their own, have done their work indepen- 

 dently. For the coming year these, as well as the regular dark room 

 members, are invited to give in their names to the President of the 

 section as working members, and to show their work to him as they 

 go along, so that the sectional prize (next term) may be determined, 

 as in other sections, with some reference to the quantity of work 

 done. 



At the exhibition of prints last Summer, R. C. Howlden and H. 

 S. Saunders took prizes for the best three,iand G. P. Oppenheim for 

 a series iilustrating events on and off the water at Tewkesbury. This 

 was a particularly interesting exhibit, well worth its prize, although 

 it was the only series shown ; its thirty or forty pictures, not by any 

 means all good if taken separately, gathered interest and worth from 

 their number and neat arrangement, and gave evidence of some taste 

 and skill. It is to be hoped that more members will try the same 

 sort of thing this year ; they will certainly find it better worth while 

 to persevere systematically like this than to be simply beautiful and 

 aimless ; and before they have tried it long something of the 

 collector's fury will hold them. 



The December show of lantern slides, confined to the productions 

 of N.H.S. members, proved that several have a proper enthusiasm 

 for this fascinating branch of photography ; seven sent in for 

 competition and more exhibited, but the average results were hardly 

 so good as the year before. General F. Dawson, C.B., to whom 

 the slides were submitted beforehand for judgment, found none 

 deserving of very high praise, but explained that in his opinion the 

 order in whicn photography should be learnt was, first, to make a 

 good negative (an essential not always acquired!); next, enlarge- 

 ments ; and after that, as more difficult, slide-making. The prizes 

 went to J. D. Campbell and G. P. Oppenheim; both P.B.H., by the 

 way. A large number of slides were exhibited by F. W. A. Wells, 

 made from negatives by H. T. H. Butt ; and there were other cases 

 of partnership work, indicating a deplorable lack of diligence some- 

 where. A score of slides contributed by Mr. Borchardt added much 

 to the interest and to the quaUty of the show, of which the total was 

 about 150. 



Rumours of alterations and of new buildings contemplated by 

 the Council include no definite promise of a better and more 

 dignified dark room ; but we have, as always, leave to hope. 



A few cycling expeditions in pursuit of photography will be 

 arranged, if possible, next term. 



