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PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION. 



ANNUAL RKPORT, 1895-6. 



Officers. 



Chairman : Mr. W. Clarkson Wallts. 



Committee : Messrs. Douglas K. Cause, G. Foxall, W. 



Harrison, W. W. Mitcheli,, W. H. Payne, C. Berrinqton 



Stonee, a. H. Webling, E. Elgee, and G. F. Atteee. 

 lion. Secretary : Me. R. CnAPPEf, Ryan, 43, Compton Avenue. 



Your Coiumittee have to report that during tlie past season 

 four Sectional Meetings have been held, the attendance at which 

 has been fairly satisfactory. Of these meetings three have 

 been devoted to the exhibition of lantern slides, and one to 

 a demonstration of the capabilities and method of treating 

 " Platino-Bromide Paper," the lecturer being Mr. Nahum 

 Luboschez, of the Eastman Company. On the lantern evenings 

 there have been exhibited a set of local geological slides collected 

 by the Tunbridge Wells Society, the series bemg rendered 

 extremely instructive and valuable in being accompanied by 

 complete descriptive notes. A set of slides from pliotograpli.s 

 taken by Mr. Clarkson Wallis during a tour in Morocco was also 

 shown the same evening. 



On another occasion the " Photography " Prize Competition 

 sets of slides were exhibited, in which one member of the 

 Section was successful in obtaining a Certificate. 



The Society has also been favoured by a visit from Dr. 

 Fabgood, President of the Eastbourne Photographic Society, 

 who delivered an interesting lecture on "Moorish Aichseology 

 in Spain," illustrated by a large number of excellent views; his 

 visit deing returned by Mr. D. E. Caush, who has also given 

 lectures on " Photo-Micrography " at Eastbourne and Lewes. 



Excursions have been made to Boshani and Cuckfield, the 

 latter occasion having been by the kind invitation of the past 

 Chairman, Mr. J. P. Slingsby Roberts, who entertamed the 

 members of the Society to tea, after which the inaugural meeting 

 of the Session was held, at which Mr. Clarkson Wallis was 

 installed as Chairman for the year. 



A competition for lantern slides and prints was held in 

 March, and was instituted specially for the purpose of obtaining 



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