THE HON. DIRECTOR'S REPORT. Ixi. 



REPORT OF THE HON. DIRECTOR OF THE 

 PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY. 



May, 1910. 



At the last meeting of the Field Club were shown the photo- 

 graphs contributed to the Survey of the County since the 

 annual meeting in May, 1909. They numbered 159, and were 

 the work of Mr. St. George Gray, Mr. Dicker, Mr. Scott Orr, 

 and the Director. It has for some time been felt that the 

 survey has not received the recognition and support from 

 amateur photographers throughout the county that it de- 

 deserves ; and in order to determine what steps should be 

 taken to make it better known, and to bring it into line with 

 similar surveys in other counties, there was appointed a small 

 committee, of which the members were the President, Captain 

 Acland, Mr. Barnes, Captain Elwes, Mr. Pentin, and the 

 Director of the Survey. The committee met at the museum 

 on April 4th, and having taken into consideration what is 

 being done in other places, and the methods of conducting 

 surveys with success elsewhere, it then decided that the plan 

 of keeping the collection in books should be abandoned for 

 the future, and that, instead, each photograph should be 

 mounted on a loose sheet, preferably one on a sheet, but two 

 if the sizes are small, and the subjects suitable ; that these 

 sheets, with printed slips attached, giving full particulars 

 of the photograph, should be stored in cardboard boxes, 

 and cafalogued after being arranged under parishes, and sub- 

 divided under the following sections : Antiquities, Architec- 

 ture, Art and Literature, Geology and Natural History, Passing 

 Events, and Topography. 



That platinotype and carbon prints should form the per- 

 manent collection, but that untoned bromides should be taken 

 until a permanent print of the same subject was forthcoming. 



