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the six-inch map, if twenty-four names were received. They 
would then allot the maps by ballot or otherwise among 
the workers, giving one map to each pair. 
5. —Let us suppose that two friends, A and B, are allotted 
a certain area, say that contained in one quarter sheet of the 
six-inch map, including an area of six square miles. 
They carefully study the map and draw up lists of the 
promising points. They read up the history of any churches, 
ruins, or other monuments of the past included within it. Then 
they visit it for the first time, without their cameras. They 
walk across and across the district, calling perhaps at the 
inns, the farm house, or the rectory, gaining information and 
jotting down places and times when the light will be favour¬ 
able. On their next visit they are accompanied by their 
cameras, and the negatives necessary to illustrate the area— 
perhaps only two or three, perhaps ten or twenty—are soon 
secured ; or a second and third visit are paid if necessary. 
Prints are then taken and lantern slides made, and the 
results are handed over to the committee. 
6. —If a sufficient number of subscribers could be obtained, 
it would be very desirable to publish, perhaps monthly or 
quarterly, a selection of the most interesting photographs 
obtained, accompanied by descriptive letterpress. There 
must be many people in the county who would prize such a 
local record. 
7. —The principal books and works of reference upon the 
county should be added to the library of the Society; and 
lists of the large collections of books, etc., on the same 
subjects contained in the local libraries, should be posted on 
the walls of the club rooms. 
8. —One night in each week might be considered a 
“ rendezvous night,” on which all who were interested in the 
work of the survey should meet at the club rooms ; and on 
(say) one evening in each session of the Society there might 
be a more public display of the results which were being 
obtained. The year's work in this direction would naturally 
form an important feature of the Society’s annual exhibition. 
Society Excursions Utilised.-— Everybody knows the 
routine of an ordinary excursion of a photographic society. 
Some well-known spot is selected, the further away the 
better, as North Wales, Dovedale, Haddon Hall, etc. If 
the day is fine twenty or thirty members attend, and they go 
round the place in a crowd, occupying themselves to a large 
extent in getting in, and out of, one another’s way. 
I would suggest that the excursions be made local, 
and that a routine of work be drawn up beforehand. 
