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reputation for beauty of design and excellence of workmanship 

 in this important branch of printing. This exhibition was the 

 result of the combination of three important local firms, who 

 had all most generously responded to the invitation of the 

 secretaries to give an exhibition explanatory of this special 

 department. 



Mr. F. W. Lockwood, Senior Secretary, then briefly drew 

 attention to various objects on exhibition which were not men- 

 tioned in the list of exhibits in the programme. 



Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, B.E., Junior Secretary, at the invitation 

 of the President, made some remarks on a fine series of British 

 ferns and their varieties which hung on the walls, and also 

 explained the various processes illustrated by the large number 

 of chromo-lithographs and lithographic stones which were on 

 exhibition. 



The company then scattered, and devoted themselves to the 

 examination of the objects that crowded the tables and walls of 

 the lecture hall and library. 



Conspicuous at the lower end of the room hung an immense 

 lithographic reproduction of Edward Bisson's famous picture 

 "La Cigale," which was one of the pictures of the year at the 

 last Paris Salon exhibition — the figure of a beautiful minstrel 

 girl standing in the falling snow, clasping her guitar. This 

 work, which is executed in monochrome, is one of the latest 

 productions of Messrs. David Allen & Sons, and is undoubtedly 

 one of the finest pieces of lithographic work on a large scale 

 ever produced. Facing it at the opposite end of the room was 

 another very fine specimen of chromo-lithography — a large 

 reproduction of the well-known picture, " Home from the 

 Soudan," the work of Messrs. Marcus Ward & Co. The 

 delicacy and variety of colouring here displayed excited general 

 admiration. Messrs. M'Caw, Stevenson, & Orr supplied some 

 excellent examples of finer chromo-lithographic work, shewing 

 the original sketch, the photographically-reduced key, and all 

 the consecutive printings up to the finished picture, with printed 

 explanations of each process, which they had kindly specially 



