62 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



7. The oflicers of the survey shall include a Curator, whose duties 

 shall consist of the care, classification, cataloguing, mounting, ifec, of the 

 prints ; and a Secretary, to conduct the correspondence, »kc. 



[ A. Chairman and a Special Survey Committee may also be necessary.] 



8. Beyond simple ' spotting,' it is not advisable that any ' retouching,' 

 ' improving,' or ' double-printing ' should be done to the negatives from 

 which prints are to be taken, or to the prints themselves. 



9. The work of a plioto-survcy established under this scheme is 

 intended to supplement, and not in any way to interfere with, the work 

 which is already being done in this direction by other photographic or 

 scientific Societies. 



10. Many districts are not covered by the existing photographic 

 Societies ; many individuals who are not connected v/ith such Societies are 

 Avilling and able to do survey work, and there are many lines of research 

 which are best conducted by specialists working alone. Tlie Survey 

 General or Central Committee will endeavour to cover such districts 

 and to enlist and direct the services of isolated workers and specialists. 



11. Information will be songht as to buildings, places, or regions in 

 which restorations, destructions, or great changes are likely to occur. 



Lists of such buildings, &c., have already been con>piled by Mr. 

 Snowden Ward and published in the ' Monthly Photogram.' 



12. Lists of special areas for photo-survey work and of special lines 

 of inquiry shall be drawn up and circulated. Suggestions are asked for. 



Examples {«) of neglected (or unsupplied) areas sucli as — 



(1) Salisbury Plain, Dartmoor, the New Forest, ttc. 



(2) The Scilly Isles. 



(3) The Fens. 



(4) Many isolated districts in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. 



(5) The coastline generally (to show the eflects of erosion). 



(6) The Roman Roads. 



(7) North Lincolnshire (before the development of the recently dis- 

 covered coalfield changes the entire character of this agricultural disti-ict). 



(8) The South Staffordshire coalfield — an area where the coal seams 

 will probably be worked out ere the close of another quarter-century. 



And (!>) of special lines of inquiry, as — 



(1) Occupations (trades, etc.) of the people. 



(2) Dress as influenced (i) by occupation, (ii) hy 'fashion.' 



(3) The native flora of Britain — wild plants i^hotographed in their 

 natural h.abitats. 



13. The survey may hold at least one meeting annually for the pur- 

 pose either of making a more or less complete photo-survey of some 

 (photographically) neglected or specially interesting district ; or of co- 

 operating with some existing Society or Societies in inaugurating or 

 extending such a survey. 



14. Sample sets of mounts, ]naps, illustrative survey-photographs, etc., 

 shall be prepared. Of these sample sets, one set shall be kept for 

 reference at the ofiice of the survey, while the other may be borrowed 

 by any Society or membei-, who must, however, defray the cost of 

 carriage both ways and return the set whenever requested to do so by 

 the Hon. Secretaiy. 



