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REPORT OF THE 
Mr. William Eeed have handed over the hooks bequeathed to 
the Society by our generous benefactor. These books have 
been added to the Reference Library which very properly bears 
his name. 
No other additions deserving of special notice have been 
made to the Library. 
The work of cataloguing is progressing, and the Honorary 
Librarian hopes shortly to finish this very needful work. 
Photographic Section.— The work of this section has 
been actively carried on during the past year, in spite of the 
retirement of a few prominent workers, owing to removal from 
York and other causes. On the whole it cannot be said that 
the section has received any accession to its numbers during 
this period; but the amount of work done in proportion to the 
number of members, evidently compares favourably with the 
average amount done by other photographic societies in towns 
of much the same population as York. The winter of 1891-2 
was remarkable for the abnormal accumulations of hoar frost 
upon the trees, and in fact upon every object exposed to the 
outer air, most exquisitely beautiful scenes naturally resulting 
on every hand. 
The Museum Gardens perhaps afford more opportunities for 
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making photographic studies of hoar frost scenes than any other 
locality in York, and several members of the section made 
some most successful studies which will be lasting mememtos 
of that somewhat remarkable wintry period. 
The monthly meetings of the section depend quite as much 
for their success upon informal discussions and enquiries 
concerning the every-day work of its individual members, as 
upon formal papers or practical demonstrations, although the 
latter types of sectional work perhaps afford the best material 
for a report intended for the perusal of members of the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society generally. At the February 
meeting, Mr. W. Monkhouse gave a very practical demon¬ 
stration of the process of making lantern transparencies by 
means of the very complete enlarging or reducing apparatus 
belonging to the Society, and which is independent of 
condensers, owing to the introduction of a system of illumin- 
