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dras. These are well focused, clearly printed and the subjects of 

 many of them picturesquely selected. The Collodion Negatives 

 from which these were printed, were all taken by the Fothergill 

 dry process. The best subjects were the Cornwallis statue, St. 

 Mary's Church, the Cathedral, Vepery Church, and two Mahome- 

 dan Tombs in TripHcane. The view of Madras from the top of 

 the Light house and of Messrs. Arbuthnot and Co.'s Office on the 

 beach were also considered good. The second prize for Stereo- 

 grams was awarded by the Committee to Mr. Nicholas. 



Lieutenant Colonel Ross exhibited good Stereograms, three of 

 them views at Ootacamund — one at Benares, an excellent likeness 

 of the late Chief Justice Sir H. Davison, and a group of 20 figures, 

 nearly all clearly focused and the likenesses easily recognizable. 

 Colonel Stevenson exhibited 40 Stereograms chiefly bazaar scenes 

 and landscape scenery about Quilon, Travancore and the west 

 coast. Many of the subjects were very picturesque,and the points 

 of view well selected, but the Chemical manipulation was not so 

 good, as in those exhibited by Captain Scott and Mr. Nicholas ; 

 the lights being very white and the shadows too heavy in some of 

 the pictures. 



One of the largest contributors to the Exhibition, was C. Iyah- 

 sawmy, Photographer in the School of Arts and lately Photo- 

 graphic Assistant to Captain Tripe, wbile Government Photo- 

 grapher. The best of his contributions were two views of the 

 Scotch Church, one of a Pagoda at Vepery, and three of the div- 

 ing and dredging apparatus on the Island. These were taken by 

 the waxed paper process, 38 studies from casts of statues, hands 

 and feet and ornaments in the School were also taken by the same 

 process, and 16 copies of prints by the wet collodion process; 

 some of these were pronounced to be very good. A few copies of 

 pen drawings by the latter process were also printed well and 

 some of the above have been selected as useful studies for draw- 

 ing schools. During the exhibition Iyahsawmy was kindly taught 

 by Dr, A. J. Scott, to take likenesses, to print and to tone por- 

 traits by the collodion process and he has been enabled to theac 

 others who have applied for instruction at the School of Arts. 



The following Photographs which have been distributed to the 



