16 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
REPORT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION. 
The past year, though it appeared to be a rather quiet one with 
this Section, was, nevertheless, a year of much good work, and in 
many respects ahead of any previous one. ‘The number of members 
who contributed slides to the Interchange set, and prints to the 
annual exhibition, was twice that of previous year, and the work all 
of a good quality, which shows that the members have been active. 
But our regular meetings have not been as well attended as they 
should have been. It would be well for our programme committee 
to try and arrange, during the coming year, for more demonstrations 
and discussions along the different branches of photography. 
At the beginning of the season it was decided that the Camera 
Section should join the American Lantern-slide Interchange ; and, 
in order to get as many slides as possible to select from, a slide 
competition was held in October for prizes given by the President, 
and it proved to be a most successful one. About twenty-five mem- 
bers contributed slides, and as a result we were enabled to select a 
hundred very good slides, which were sent on to New York. Of 
these about 45 were chosen as a set to go around the Interchange 
circuit with the Toronto and Vancouver sets. 
At intervals throughout the year sets of slides from the American 
Interchange have been shown before fairly good audiences. There 
were many fine sets among them, and they were much enjoyed by 
the members and others who attended these exhibitions. 
As some dissatisfaction with the American Interchange has 
been expressed of late, it was suggested some time ago that an effort 
should be made to forma Canadian Interchange. It would, perhaps, 
be well to keep this matter in view, and ascertain during the coming 
season if such an interchange could be formed. 
It was very gratifying to the members of our Section to have 
five slides chosen from our last year’s set to go in the European set ; 
this was a very creditable showing. 
A few interesting and instructive demonstrations were given 
