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d t. e e fl e e e 1 9 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. Vol. XXIX. No. 1402.—July 17, 1885. CONTENTS. PAGE The Exhibition of the Photographic Society of Great Britain 449 The “ Corn Doctor.” By F. S. Seed 449 On .Saving Silver in Sensitizing Albumenized Paper 451 Action of Coloured Substances upon the Colour Sensitiveness of Bromide of Silver in Gelatine. By Dr. J. M, Eder 452 Martyrs to Photography .*. 454 Patent Intelligence 454 Camera Bellows Making for Amateurs. By T. G. 455 Notes 466 PAGE A Day with the Tricycle and Camera in Switzerland. By C. Kay Woods 458 Meteorology for Photographers. By J. Vincent Elsden, B.Sc. (Lond.), 460 Photography in New York 460 Correspondence 461 Proceedings of Societies 462 Talk in the Studio 463 Answers to Correspondents 464 THE EXHIBITION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. The next Exhibition of this Society will be held in the Gallery of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, 5a, Pall Mall East, London, S.W., and will be inaugurated by a conversazione, open to members and their friends, at 8p.m., on Saturday evening, the 3rd of October. The Exhibition will reman open daily (Sundays excepted), from Monday, the 5th of October, until Satur day, 14th of November. It will also be open every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening. Medals will be placed at the disposal of the judges for artistic, scientific, and technical excellence; and the judges may award three medals for portrait or figure subjects, and one for lantern transparencies. The judges will consist of the following gentlemen James Glaisher (President), T. Sebastian Davis, Joseph Paget, John Spiller, G. L. Addenbrooke, E. Dunmore, nd J. Gale. Packing cases containing exhibits must be sent (carriage paid) addressed to the Photographic Society of Great Britain, care of Mr. James Bourlet, 17, Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital, Loudon ; and must arrive not later than Thursday, September 24th. Pictures by band will be received at the Gallery, 5a, Pall Mall East, on Thurs day, September 24th, until 9 p.m. Apparatus and appli ances must also be delivered at the Gallery, on Thursday, September 24th. Lantern transparencies sent in competition for the medal—not less than twelve, fitted (removable) in a frame, to stand upon the table—must be delivered on Thursday, September 24th, and will only be eligible for award when both negatives and slides are the work of the exhibitor. Photographic transparencies will be shown with the Society’s optical lantern on Monday evenings during the Exhibition. Slides are invited to be sent for this purpose; they must not exceed 3} inches in height, and should be delivered at the Gallery not less than a week before the Monday of Exhibition, to enable the Committee to select and arrange them. Each exhibitor must send a letter of advice containing a description of each picture, as also a statement of process, and any further detail, to be inserted in the catalogue, to be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Photographic Society of Great Britain, 5a, Pall Mall East, London, S.W. It is suggested that when any work shown is taken by a special process, prepared and made by the exhibitor, information as to particulars should be communicated. At the back of each frame must be written the name and address of the exhibitor, with the title or description of the picture, and the number (if there be more than one) t» which it refers in his letter of advice, Each frame or picture may have the exhibitor’s name and subject neatly inscribed, but no address or anything in the shape of an advertisement will be permitted. Each piece of apparatus must have a card attached (removable) containing the name and address of the exhibitor, and a description of the exhibit for insertion in the catalogue. The Hanging Committee are instructed to refuse apparatus that has no novelty of design or application. Pictures in Oxford frames, and pictures previously exhibited in London, will not be admitted. No charge will be made to members of the Society for exhibiting their pictures, but to non-members a charge of one shilling per square foot will be made for wall space, the minimum charge being five shillings ; but no charge for wall space will be made to foreign exhibitors, or to those exhibitors who may become members of the Society at the November meeting. It is proposed to lay on the table a catalogue containing the price of pictures and apparatus to be disposed of ; those who wish to avail themselves of this proposal must state the price of their exhibits in their letter of advice. All exhibits received in packing cases will be re-packed and despatched after the close of the Exhibition ; and notice will be sent to exhibitors when to fetch away those works which are left at the Gallery by hand ; but should any exhibitor not be able to send to the Gallery, he can, by giving notice to the Assistant-Secretary, and paying the cost, have his pictures packed in a case and returned by carrier. It is to be distinctly understood that the sending of exhibits signifies acceptance upon the part of the exhibitor of the appropriation of the awards made by the appointed judges, and the decision of the Council upon all matters connected with the Exhibition, as absolute and final. Any further information respecting the Exhibition can be obtained from the Assistant-Secretary, Edwin Cocking, 57, Queen’s Road, Peckham, S.E.; or the Hon. Secretary, W. F. Donkin, Malvern Lodge, Upper Tulse Hill, S.W. THE “ CORN DOCTOR,” BY F. S. SEED. Few among photographers have been successful in making anything like pictorial compositions by photography ; in fact, to make anything of this kind which is presentable, demands much natural tact as regards the management of the models, and considerable artistic perception. Indeed, the absence of these often not only renders attempts at representing ideas by photographed groups futile, but makes them ludicrous. Mr. Seed’s Corn Doctor, which we reproduce this week, is a striking example of success in the art of grouping for photography, so that a picture is obtained which tells a