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subscribers to the Photographic Society were also laid on the 

 Tables. 1 Ulsoor Pagoda. 2 The Duke of Wellington, 100 gun 

 ship. 3 K Mahomedan Mosque. 4 Shevagunga Hill. 5 Large 

 Pagoda with Tank. 6 A stone car at Humnee. 7 A statue of 

 Hunnamaon. 8 Portrait of Brigadier Neill. 9 A group of Pal- 

 myra Trees. 10 Portrait of Lord Harris. 11 A Mahomedan Mau- 

 soleum. 12 Portrait of Sir Christopher Rawlinson. 13 Faust 

 and Marguerite after Ary SchefTer. 14 Statue of Ganesa. 15 

 Ruined Pagoda overgrown by a Banian Tree. 16 St. Mary's 

 Church in the Fort, Madras. 



Two very fine prints were also received for distribution amongst 

 the subscribers for this year, one of the Piece of plate presented 

 to the Madras Fusiliers by the community of Madras as a tribute 

 to the Memory of the late General Neill, and the other a portrait 

 of the Honorable Walter Elliot. A complete set of Capt. Tripe's 

 Photographs and Stereograms were exhibited and 96 good Euro- 

 pean Photographs with 64 picturesque European Stereograms 

 were also exhibited by Dr. Hunter. Some of these were the prize 

 Photographs of the Exhibitions of 1858 and 1859, in Edinburgh 

 London, and Paris, and the choice pictures of the Artists and 

 Stereographic Society of London. 



The total number of pictures exhibited this year has been 1,732 

 and the result has been that a great stimulus has been given to 

 the Art of Photography in Madras. 



Meeting of the Photographic Society 2lst March 1861. 



PRESENT, 



Colonel McCally in the Chair. 



Colonel Hamilton, I Captain Mitchell, and 



Dr. Hunter, | Dr. Scott. 



Prints of Mr. Elliot, and the Neill Testimonial laid on the table 

 and the bill for the same submitted to the Meeting. 

 Resolved that the bill be paid. 



Resolved that Mr. Crake be asked to give up a negative of one 

 of the Seven Pagodas for distribution. 



