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PHOTOGRAPHICAL SECTION. 
November 1st, 1866. 
Dr. J. P. Joule, F.R.S., &c., Vice-President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. Coote exhibited an interesting set of prints, including 
views of Exeter Cathedral, Torquay, &c., which he had 
recently taken by the collodio-albumen process. One of the 
plates used had been prepared twelve months, and the print 
from it was equal to most of the others taken on freshly pre- 
pared plates* 
Mr. Brothers suggested that if the meteoric shower on 
the night of the 12th-13th instant should prove to be one of 
more than ordinary interest, it might be interesting to pre- 
serve a photographic record of the event. He said that a 
camera with a prepared collodion plate might be adjusted on 
some well known star near where the meteors were noticed 
to be most numerous and brightest, and after about ten or 
fifteen minutes the plate (it might be kept wet about that 
time) should be developed if any meteors had been observed 
to pass. A succession of plates could be exposed, and a note 
taken of the principal star to which the camera had been 
directed. 
