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PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
Jan., 1890. 
be surprised if the payment of a guinea subscription is not 
immediately followed by the fall of native oysters to popular 
prices. The rapidity with which practical results will be 
attained will be in direct proportion to the completeness with 
which the special scientific research required has been carried 
out, and in the latter condition time is an important element. 
The possibility even, however, of complete scientific research 
is, as we said, almost entirely dependent on the pecuniary 
support given by the public; and this, we trust, the Marine 
Biological Association will largely receive, greatly to the 
advancement of pure science, and the solution of important 
economical questions. 
A. B. B. 
SOME NOTES UPON A PROPOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC 
SURVEY OF WARWICKSHIRE.* 
BY W. JEROME HARRISON, F.G.S., 
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BIRMINGHAM PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ; AUTHOR OF 
THE “HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY;” “PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ALL,” ETC. 
My subject may be considered as an extension of a paper 
which I read before the Birmingham Photographic Society 
in June, 1885, on “ The Work of a Local Photographic 
Society.”! Permit me to quote two paragraphs from that 
paper :— 
“ Within the last few years photography has made a new 
departure. The introduction of gelatine dry plates and films 
has made the process so clear and—by comparison—so easy, 
that photographers have multiplied a hundred fold. Oh ! 
that we could bring back Daguerre with his costly silver 
plates, which required such tremendous polishing ; Fox 
Talbot with his calotypes, and Scott Archer with his wet 
collodion plates, silver bath, and travelling tent, which made 
the landscape-photographer’s life a burden to him, and show 
them our light and complete equipment, with which a man 
may travel round the world, and leave—if he pleases—his 
pictures to be developed by his grandchildren, with every 
assurance that, if preserved with reasonable care, they will 
turn out all right, even after the lapse of years.” 
* Bead before the Birmingham Photographic Society, December 
11th, 1889. 
f “ Photographic News ” for July 3rd, 1885. 
