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the tone of a pleasing dark color, without being too black. The 

 skies were well preserved, being clear and without any tinge of 

 yellow. The pictures remained unchanged after their receipt, 

 and gave no indication of fading up to the close of the Exhibition. 

 They were with one or two exceptions printed on plain unalbu- 

 menized paper, the best being the Fort Ditch Cannanore, which 

 is an admirable and characteristic picture as are also the Juma 

 Musjid, a Moplah Musjid, Tier Sawmy houses, and a Sketch, 

 Cannanore. Captain Girdlestone was it appears a pupil of Mr. 

 Hardwick, of King's College, London, and has evidently profited 

 greatly from the instruction of his able Master. 



Captain Tripe's contribution consisted of 50 large views taken 

 in the neighbourhood of Madura, Trichinopoly and Tanjore. As 

 a collection this was undoubtedly the best in the Exhibition, and 

 the Committee regret much they were precluded from awarding to 

 it the gold medal, as Captain Tripe being the Photographer to 

 Government could not be looked upon as an Amateur Member of 

 the Society ; they had much pleasure, however, in awarding him 

 the silver medal which is open to all Members of the Society. But 

 this even Captain Tripe as already mentioned declined to accept 

 from the honorable feelings expressed by him in his letter to 

 the Secretary herewith appended. Captain Tripe's prints are 

 for the most part from Wax-paper Negatives, four only being 

 from dry Collodion Negatives. They illustrate admirably the 

 architecture of the Hindoo Temples and Palaces of Southern 

 India, and in particular the Madura and Tanjore series comprise 

 in this respect all that is most worthy of record in those cities. 

 The interior of that part of the Madura Palace which is now used 

 as the Session Court Room is an excellent picture and is a very 

 good specimen of the dry Collodion, which process has not as yet 

 been much employed in this part of India, but which promises to 

 surpass in many respects the wax paper process especially in be- 

 ing better than that process for taking views of interiors giving the 

 clear and sharp definition of Collodion, and at the same time per- 

 mitting any necessary amount of exposure. In interiors where 

 there is a deficiency of light, an exposure of several hours may be 

 given without any damage to the plate. Another good specimen 

 of an interior taken by this process is that marked in the Cata- 



