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their attention to the artistic side of photograpliy alone. AVhcreas 

 you are no doubt all deeply interested in some one or more of the 

 branches of research which your club takes into its cognizance. 

 All you have to do, tlien, is to learn how to take a negative, and 

 to make a print from it. I can assure you these are not liard 

 things to do. Photography, moreover, is not an expensive hobby ; 

 it is not one that entails much bodily labour if you confine 

 yourselves to pictures of moderate size. And moderate sizes are 

 all that in many cases are needed. You are widely scattered — east, 

 Avest, north, and south — in the county, and if you, all or even 

 a fair proportion of you, if you have not done so already, would 

 take up photography and photograph what lies in yuur own 

 district, in a very short time an admirable and valuable record of 

 Dorset in its present aspect might be secured. 



I would strongly advocate the sending out a request by the 

 officers of the Society to each member asking if he or she would 

 undertake photographic work for the Club, and, if so, what work ; 

 then, after answers have been received, some one with ample leisure 

 should be appointed " Director " of the photographic section, and 

 he should assign to each member a district in which he should 

 work. 



To assist the Director of the section a Committee should be 

 appointed, drawn from different parts of the county ; these should 

 divide the county as equally as possible between them, taking each 

 a certain number of C[uarter sheets of the six-inch ordnance survey 

 maps. These should select the places to be photographed in their 

 districts and hand over one or more cjuarter sheets of the map to 

 each one who volunteers for the good Avork ; the quarter sheet 

 takes in an area of 3 miles Ijy 2. Let these workers first survey 

 the ground without their cameras, collect all the information they 

 can about the history of the buildings and other objects they mean 

 to photograph, and when they have thoroughly mastered all details 

 and noted the best time for making exposures let them go over the 

 district with their cameras and go again and again if necessary till 

 they have got really good negatives. Then the work of printing 



