Jan., 1890. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
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who may be willing to further the objects of the committee 
in their own districts.” As the author of the first book on 
geology*, which was (so far as I know) illustrated by photo¬ 
graphs, I feel an especial interest in this scheme, and it is 
clear that it would be a part of any complete local photo¬ 
graphic survey. 
A Photographic Survey. 
It is proposed to consider the subject of a photographic 
survey mainly under two heads :— 
I. —Have we, in our neighbourhood, a natural region or 
district which contains material for the work contemplated 
under the head of a “ Photographic Survey ?” 
II. —Supposing this to be the case, how should such a 
survey be organized and conducted ? 
It may be taken for granted that a Photographic Society, 
such as our own, will be doing a good and useful work if it 
endeavour to secure a pictorial record of local objects and 
events. The question then arises, what is the best area or 
region to select as the unit of work? I think there can be no 
question but that—for England at all events—this unit should 
be the County ; or divisions of a county, as the Hundreds. 
Every Englishman knows his county well; he is familiar 
with its extent, its boundaries, towns, industries, etc. Men 
from the same county have a clannish feeling ; and when two 
Englishmen meet abroad, if they are both from the same 
county they feel almost like brothers. This fact has lately 
been recognised by Government in assigning territorial 
designations to all the regiments of our army, so that we 
speak of the “ North Warwickshire Regiment,” the “ South 
Essex,” etc. 
Some have suggested that we should take a certain 
radius—say twenty miles—from our town, as the area to be 
studied. This would give us a circle, and would include 
portions of half-a-dozen counties. But who cares for “ the 
country round Birmingham?” while Warwickshire is a name 
to conjure with! 
Again, we hope that this scheme will be taken up by the 
hundred photographic societies which now exist in Great 
Britain. If the unit of work be a circle, then great gaps 
will be left between the circles; but every one who has 
played with a “ puzzle map” knows that when the counties 
are fitted together they make up the entire country. 
*The Geology of Leicestershire and Rutland; illustrated by twelve 
photographs (from whole plates). Leicester: J. and T. Spencer, 1877. 
