1024 Transactions of the American Institutb. 



PHOTOGRAPHICAL SECTION. 



ORIGIN. 



On the 26th day of February, 1859, a preliminary meeting for 

 the organization of a Photographical Society was held in the lecture 

 room of the American Institute, and on the corresponding day 

 of the succeeding month, John W. Draper, Peter Cooper, John 

 Campbell, Lewis M. Rutherfurd, John Johnson, Chas. W. Hull, 

 E. Ogden Doremus, Chas. A. Joy, Cornelhjs Grinnell, Samuel 

 D. Tillman, J. A. Rosevelt, James R. Chilton, Joseph Dixon, 

 Henry H. Schieffelin, N. Sarony, and forty-seven other promi- 

 nent and well-known citizens completed the organization of the 

 "American Photographical Society," by the adoption of a consti- 

 tution and code of by-laws and the election of officers. John W. 

 Draper, M. D., LL. D., held the office of President during the first 

 five years, and Lewis M. Rutherfurd from that time until April, 

 1867, when it was proposed to amend the constitution and by-laws 

 so that the Society might become a Section of the American Insti- 

 tute. This change was efiected in May, 1867, and the organization 

 was placed under the control of the standing committee on chem- 

 istry, who reappointed the then acting Society officers, as follows: 



PRESIDENT : 



LEWIS M. RUTHERFURD. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS : 



JOHN W. DRAPER, CHARLES A. JOY, 

 ABRAHAM BOGARDUS. 



CORRESPONDING SECRETARY : 



CHARLES WAGER HULL. 



RECORDING SECRETART : 



OSCAR G. MASON, 



treasurer: 



HENRY J. NEWTON. 



The eighty-third meeting of the Association was held, under its 

 new title, at the American Institute, June 10th, 1867. 



