Photo GRAPHICAL SECTioy Proceedings. 1087 



DISCUSSIONS 



PHOTOGRAPHICAL SECTION 



AMEKIOAjN^ ii^stitute, 



May 4th, 1868. 



Joseph Dixon, Esq., in the chair. Oscar G. Mason, Secretary. 



Mr. Daniel Chapman, chairman of the committee appointed at the 

 last meeting, at the request of Mr. Charles B. Boyle, optician, to 

 report on the fidelity of his drawings as figured in the Philadelplia 

 Photographer, for January, 1868, reported that the committee were 

 unable to detect any attempt at misrepresentation on the part of 

 Mr. Boyle. ' This report was accepted and the committee discharged 

 from further duty. 



Prof. Yanderweyde exhibited several single and combiHation lenses 

 used for photographic work, and illustrated his remarks upon their 

 uses and relative value, by a series of photographs, showing their 

 working qualities. Many of the pictures were very fine, especially 

 one of Girard College. 



The Hon. E. G. Squier, being present, was called upon to give 

 some of his experience in making photgraphs in South America. 



Mr. Squier said that, though he had sought a connection with the 

 Institute mainly in order to establish a relationship with the photo- 

 graphic section, he was sorry to say that his knowledge of the noble 

 art of photography was limited indeed. He did not understand much 

 of its technical phraseology, still less of its rationale. He had taken 

 photographs of men and things with more or less of success, and 

 expected to take more. But his appeal to the art was purely that of 

 a traveler, and it was in the utilization of it to the wants of the 

 traveler, that he was mainly interested, and to this that he wished to 



