JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 105 
REPORT OF THE CAMERA SECTION 
of the Hamilton Scientific Association for the term ending May, 1902. 
During the year there have been added to the membership 18 
new names, among them a considerable number of ladies. These 
contain the names of some who are well known in photographic 
circles as leaders in the art, and the section will be much benefitted 
by their presence. 
At the beginning of the season it was decided not to join the 
American Lantern Slide Interchange, although the reason does not 
reflect great credit upon the members of the section. It was found 
that a sufficient number of good slides could not be got ready in 
time, and so the matter dropped for the year. As stated in the 
report last year, the making of interchange slides has always been 
left too late, and with the Exhibition almost at the same time of the 
year, it is a mistake to leave the interchange set to the last minute. 
Although it should not be necessary yet to stimulate the members 
to work to this end, your President early in the season offered a 
gold medal for the set of six slides that should be considered the 
best, handed in before the rst May, 1902. It is to be hoped that 
there will be a hearty response to the generosity of the section’s 
head officer. 
There has been a considerable number of very useful demon- 
strations during the year. Mr. J. S. Gordon gave a fine lecture on 
“Composition ;” the Demonstrator of the Canadian Kodak Co. 
showed the virtues of Dekko paper; Mr. J. R. Heddle gave several 
demonstrations of Reducing and Enlarging ; Cloud Printing by Mr. 
Harry Tansley; and Flower Photography is at present booming, 
owing to the recent exposition on its merits by Mr. J. Gadsby. 
Our President, in the interest of his health, visited the scenes 
of his childhood days in the old country. and brought back with him 
several films. These pictures were-made the basis of one of the 
most interesting illustrated lectures of the year. Another member 
on business bent visited the old land, accompanied by a 4 x 5 Poco. 
Your Secretary is to-night on the high seas on his return from a trip 
to the Holy Land, having visited Egypt, etc. Rumor has it that 
when he started out he was threatened with extra charges for excess 
