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near Wheal Darlington in the same valley as the above, and about a 

 mile west of it (the pit with the remains of an engine on it south 

 of the railway, about half-a-mile east of Marazion station), the 

 formation there was 



Marsh surface. 



Turfy,'' qy. ^'Peaf' soil. 



Sand mixed with small white shells in great numbers, 

 but mostly much injured. 



Turfy," qy. ^^Peat" soTl. 



Tin stream. 



In the lower turfy or peat soil were found nuts and quantities 

 of some hard wood. 



Thomas Coenish. 



Fetizance, 21st December, 1869, 



A Paper will be read on the 20th January on the 



ART AND SCIENCE CLAIMS OF PHOTOGEAPHY. 



By Mr. T. W. Coffin. 



PROGRAMME. 



The discovery and application of Photography — Present cause of 

 depression — Science — Science of Photography — Photographs in 

 Natural Colours — Permanence — Experiments of Professor Mach — 

 The Art Claims of Photography — Qualities to be looked for in an 

 Artist and a Work of Art — What is meant by Art — Art Study — 

 Art Critics — Technics — Esthetics — Admiration — Photography as 

 applied to Portraiture — Hardness not Sharpness — Wordsworth — 

 Sir Joshua Reynolds — Ruskin — Criticism — Detail — Perspective — 

 Combination Printing — Pictorial Composition — Conclusion. 



The lecture will bo illustrated by a large number of landscape 

 and composition photographs, kindly selected and lent by Mr. H. 

 P. Robinson, of Tunbridge Wells, and include the well-known 

 pictures, Sleep," Returning Home," ''Waiting for the Roat," 

 **Rusthall Common," &c., &c. 



