PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION. 



RE PORT. 



Your Committee in presenting their fourth Annual 

 Report tender the best thanks of the Section to those gentlemen 

 who, by papers and demonstrations, have given interest to the 

 Meetings held during the Winter Session, and ask for further 

 contributions from the Members, especially in the direction of 

 demonstrations and papers on practical Photography. 



It is with great pleasure that your Committee record the 

 fact that a lady member has again brought honour to the 

 Section by winning the Gold Medal in the "Amateur 

 Photographer " Ladies' Competition. 



To encourage to technical and artistic excellence your 

 Committee hope to institute a prize fund from which awards may 

 be given to work of Members showing conspicuous merit. 

 For such purpose it is intended to hold an Exhibition of 

 Photographic Prints and Transparencies in connection with the 

 Annual Conversazione of the Society to be held in the Autumn. 



Your Committee are also engaged in formulating a scheme 

 whereby the energies of the Members of the Section may be 

 combined in making a Photographic Survey of Chester and the 

 neighbourhood, so that prints and lantern slides may be 

 secured illustrating the architecture, antiquities, and history of 

 the old City and its surroundings. Such an effort would not 

 only guide the work of the Members in a definite direction but 

 be the means of collecting together a set of Lantern Slides 

 which, with the additon of a descriptive Lecture, might be 

 loaned to kindred Societies and thus give pleasure to hundreds 

 to whom the beauties of Chester and neighbourhood may be as 

 yet a closed book. Further particulars will be given to the 

 Members shortly, together with any arrangements which may 

 be made for Photographic Excursions, &c. 



