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make negatives, use of apparatus, etc., but also by subscribing 
to raise the funds which will be necessary for the purchase of 
maps, albums, cases, etc., and the defraying of the cost of 
printing in platinotype, etc., and making lantern slides. 
It does not seem unreasonable, however, to ask for sub¬ 
scriptions from all who are interested in such a survey. Our 
own Society will, it may be hoped, make a grant in aid ; and, 
doubtless, if a portion of the work is done as a sample, and 
well done, assistance will not be wanting. 
The End of a Photographic Survey.— In the way of 
work to be done, there could be no end. Every day sees 
some change, something of the old order is blotted out, 
something new is introduced. A railway is made across our 
pet landscape, and we must photograph the trail of black 
smoke from the engine, if it be only to send the picture to 
Mr. Buskin. How rapidly the features of our towns are 
changing must be obvious to the most careless observer ; and 
anyone who has been absent from the new city for but a few 
years has good cause to sing the old song, “ I can’t find 
Birmingham! ” 
But the term “ end ” may also be considered in the sense 
of “ object.” What shall be done with our photographs when 
we get them ? Well, this Society should retain at least two 
complete sets—a working set and one for reference. Com¬ 
plete sets ought also to be prepared for our Municipal 
Reference Library, for the British Museum, and for any 
other public institutions who desired a set and were willing to 
pay for it. 
Our schools would value highly a selection of large 
photographs; and enlargements might be made for this and 
other special objects, as for exhibition on the walls of our 
free libraries, for teaching and for lecturing purposes, etc. 
Further, it appears to me that the pursuance of a task 
such as I have attempted to sketch out, would unite the 
members of this Society as only men are united who have a 
definite object in view, and who work for a common end. It 
would attract, it may be hoped, new workers to join our ranks ; 
and would add to the status of the Society in the eyes of the 
public. Much energy which is now frittered away would be 
diverted into a useful channel; and although it may be said 
that the main benefits of our work will be reaped by a 
posterity “which has never done anything for us,” yet I feel 
confident that we shall derive as much pleasure from doing 
the work, as our descendants will from its study and 
examination. 
