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PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF WARWICKSHIRE. MaR., 1890 . 
South Warwickshire. The fossils contained in these and in 
other local rocks, of which there is a grand series in the 
Warwick Museum and in the Museum of the Mason College, 
Birmingham, will form interesting subjects for our cameras. 
Lastly, we have the Drift, including those confused beds 
of clay and sand often containing great blocks of rock 
(erratics) which have been conveyed from Wales or from 
Scotland by the agency of ice during the glacial epoch. 
The immense boulder which lies in Cannon Hill Park 
(Birmingham) is a fine example of such a travelled block ; 
but there are hundreds of others, and they are continually 
being destroyed—the farmers blow them up with dynamite. 
So, too, with the sections—the quarries, railway cuttings, 
etc.—where the solid rocks are finely exposed. They change 
from day to day, until at last they are grassed over and lost. 
Let it be our task, by the aid of photography, to record their 
features for ever for the students of geology.* 
The Botany of Warwickshire.— The flora of our countv 
has been carefully studied and described by Messrs. William 
Mathews, M.A., J. E. Bagnall, A.L.S., W. B. Grove, M.A., 
and other specialists. Artists have long visited our parks— 
Packington Park especially—to portray the grand old trees 
which adorn them, remnants of the old forest of Arden. 
Photography can admirably record every twig and leaf. It is 
certain that good photographs of plants, especially if taken 
while growing in their native haunts, would help to vivify the 
dry leaves of herbaria, and they would be much valued by 
those who study and teach botany. I have seen some exqui¬ 
site work in this direction done by one of our members, Mr. 
Charles Pumphrey. Let me advise those who make this 
branch a speciality to photograph trees either early or late in 
the day, when the nearly horizontal rays illuminate their 
trunks. Let photographs of the same tree be taken at 
different seasons of the year; then shall you be able to 
prepare a series of “dissolving views,” in which the tree shall 
be shown to bud and blossom, be covered with leaves, and 
anon be bare, yet beautiful with frost-rime. 
Zoology of Warwickshire.— In the minute life which 
occupies our ponds and ditches there is a never-ending field 
of work for the photographer who combines the camera with 
the microscope. Some of us know, too, that it is better fun 
to hunt with the camera than with the gun; and we hope to 
be able to photograph the local birds, etc., in their native 
* See paper on “ Aid Rendered by Photography to Geology,” by 
W. J. Harrison, “ Photographic News ” for 2nd October, 1885. 
