2-1: PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE COUKTY. 



should begin, and here it is imperative that a permanent process 

 should be employed, and there is one process, fortunately, the 

 easiest of all to work after a little practice — namely, the platinotype 

 process, which produces prints as permanent as the paper on which 

 they are printed, that is, they are as lasting as any engraving can 

 be. These should be sent to the Director unmounted, and he should 

 have them mounted in albums which miglit well be the same size 

 as the quarter sheets of the ordnance map, say about 22in. by 16in. 

 In each album should be bound the quarter sheets of the ordnance 

 survey of the district photographs of which it contains, and blank 

 pages should be bound between the mounting sheets on which 

 notes in MS. should be inserted, descriptive of the places pourtrayed 

 on the opposite mount. Copies of the photographs taken should 

 also be made in the form of lantern slides ; these should be 

 deposited with the Director of the photographic section and accom- 

 panied with notes. These could be arranged in sets and shown at 

 winter meetings of the society, and explained by some one who, 

 from the notes given by the original photographers, would under- 

 take to compile a lecture. 



The workers, I hope, would be so numerous and so widely 

 distributed that nothing of interest Avould escape the notice of 

 some one or other of those engaged in the photographic survey. If 

 any geological section were exposed by natural or human agency 

 it would be immediately photographed. There are, as perhaps 

 you know, various sub-committees appointed by the British 

 Association, which invite help in the way of photographic work 

 The geological sub-committee would be grateful for prints of 

 interesting geological discoveries ; the meteorological sub-committee 

 for photographs of clouds, snow drifts, lightning flashes, and other 

 phenomena, and these sub-committees issue printed instructions 

 explaining the way in which the work should be carried out. 



Of course, as I mentioned, pictures of village and town life, of 

 agricultural operations and various handicrafts, should be made, and 

 these would form separate collections in special albums and boxes 

 of slides. 



