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reveals the town and distant hills, but all the rest of the picture is gloom. An inch off the forground, which is uninteresting, would convert this picture into a perfect little gem. ‘ 1 Brotherly Attention ” must not be passed over, though it is only two little nigger boys sitting on a boat. An old kettle and a worn-out tin pan are at their feet, and the elder one is carefully removing superabundant secretion at the tip of the younger one’s nose with not the very cleanest of pocket-handkerchiefs. This picture is deliciously comic, but not at all vulgar. Mr. J. E. Dumont has told his story with great bold ness in his picture called “A Good Hand.” A jolly priest, with skull cap to cover his shaven crown, is busy with his hand at whist or cribbage, and quite disregards the Chianti flask and very nearly empty glass by his side. The triumphant look on his face shows that he holds the winning card. Mr. G. Tagliaferro's accessories are decidedly too much en evidence in his circus pictures ; but he is most fortunate in his model who enacts the clown, for the love-struck expression when looking at the trim ankles of the premiere dansense is extremely comic, though very true to life. The lady is apparently unconscious of the effect she is producing, for she has one of her feet on the drum and is busily occupied in fastening up her sandal. Space does not permit much more, but the geological pictures by Mr. W. L. Howie must not be passed over. They illustrate the errosive action of rain on the softer parts of some strata, and the formation thereby of sharply pointed pyramids. A clear but concise description is attached to each frame. A large series of pictures illustrating the district, and forming an extensive contribution to the county survey now on hand, are arranged in an outer gallery, and are most interesting. The wheeled Runic crosses that are unearthed from time to time deserve particular attention. List of Awards.* Class 1.—Portraiture. (8) W. W. Winter, silver medal; (24) Prince Buffo, bronze medal; (17) J. H. Hogg, certificate. Class 2.—Landscape. (49) J. P. Gibson, silver; (59) H. P. Robinson, bronze ; (44) T. Birtles, certificate. Class 3.—Architecture. (117) C. Court Cole, silver; (107) T. H. Faulks, bronze ; (102) A. J. Loughton, certificate. Class 4.—Genre. (135) Robert Terras, silver ; (130) J. E. Austin, bronze ; (138) Shapoor N. Bhedwar, certificate. Class 5.—Enlargements. (179) West and Son, silver ; (173) W. H. Kitchin, bronze ; (154) T. B. Sutton, certificate. Class 6.—Hand-Camera Work. (212) Percy Morris, silver ; (220) J. D. Lysaght, bronze ; (203) W. D. Welford, certificate. Class 7.—Animals. (226) Bernard Alfieri, silver; (230) W. D. Welford, bronze ; (228) Mrs. Pollard, certificate. Class 8.—Instantaneous. (250) Henry Symonds, silver ; (247) W. H. Kitchin, bronze ; (242) A. R. Dresser, certificate. Class 9.—Lantern Slides. John E. Austin, silver ; Mr. and Mrs. Auckom (No. 2 set), bronze ; J. D. Lysaght, certifi cate. Class 9a.—Lantern Slides. E. G. Lee, silver ; Jas. Dore, bronze ; A. Pringle, certificate. Cla.ss 9b.—Lantern Slides. A. Pringle, silver; E. Beck, bronze; T. H. Faulks, certificate. Class 9c.—Lantern Slides. Priestley and Sons, silver ; West and Sons, bronze ; James Dore, certificate. Class 10.—Champion Class. Shapoor N. Bhedwar, gold medal for series “Feast of Roses.” Class 11.—Portraiture. (375) Miss Rose Collier, silver; (382) W. J. Jenkins, bronze; (362) Clarence B. Moore, certificate. Class 1 to 10, amateur and professional; class 11 to 14, amateur. Class 12.—Landscape. (409) A. Horsley Hinton, silver ; (446) Hamilton Emmons, silver ; (399) A. R. Dresser, bronze ; (405) Henry Holt, certificate. Class 13.—Genre. (466) J. E. Austin, silver ; (493) J. E. Dumont, bronze ; (506) T. M. Brownrigg, certificate. Class 14.—Landscape—Six ^-plates. (516) W. L. Howie, silver ; (515) W. H. Kitchin, bronze ; (513) John E. Austin, certificate. Class 15.—Society Competition, Lantern Slides. No competition. Class 16.—President’s Prize. (532) W. H. Kitchin, (537) C. H. Murrell, equal first. Special Award. W. L. Howie, bronze medal for Geological Photographs—Nos. 543, 544, 545. The Judges were Valentine Blanchard, Gambier Bolton, F.Z.S., and Paul Lange. The Survey Competitions. Classes competing for the medals offered by the committee of the Free Library and Museum in reference to the Photo graphic Survey of Glamorganshire and part of Monmouthshire. Class 1.— Collection illustrating Glamorganshire past and present:— Gold medal, T. M. Franklin ; silver medal, W. Booth ; bronze medal, A. M'Kinnon. Mr. Franklin’s collection, both for number and selection of subjects and excellence of workmanship, is a model of what such survey work should be. Mr. Booth’s collection falls short of the standard in technical excellence, but the examples include so many subjects necessary for the survey that it is considered to stand second, but with a long interval. Mr. M'Kinnon's collection is only lacking in number of subjects in the more distant parts of the county. Class 2.— Collections illustrating Monmouthshire, within twelve miles of Cardiff :—Silver medal, W. Herbert ; bronze medal, N. R. Corfield. Mr. Herbert’s collection presents an interesting series, but does not include any important object or view in Newport or Carleon ; but the more inaccessible subjects count as of higher value to the survey. Mr. Corfield presents a few interesting examples, but is too restricted in number to be a representative collection. Class 3. — Collections of photographs of churches and chapels of Glamorganshire:—Silver medal withheld ; bronze medal, W. Booth. The adjudicators take the view that these medals are offered for collections not of ancient churches exclusively, but as repre senting the buildings used for religious worship at present in the county. No collection offered does this satisfactorily ; the chief medal is, therefore, withheld. Mr. Booth presents a few examples, and the bronze medal was therefore adjudged to him. Class 4.— Collection of photographs of Cardiff, past and present :— Silver medal, G. Wills ; bronze medal, F. W. Simpson. The collection of Mr. Wills is of the greatest merit, judged from the point of view of the survey, while the artistic excel lence is not less. The few remaining nooks of old Cardiff have been carefully searched out and photographed. Mr. Simpson’s collection represents the more obvious points of interest in the town, in a series of photographs of striking merit. Class 5.— Collections of photographs of Glamorganshire castles, mansions, religious houses, and crosses :—Silver medal, T. M. Franklin ; bronze medal, T. H. Faulks. Mr. Franklin’s exhibit, comprising so many subjects inac cessible to most photographers, and his examples of Celtic crosses, represented with such remarkable success on so large a scale, forms a collection of high value. Mr. Faulks’ small collection is varied and well selected in subject, and is adjudged the bronze medal. The adjudicators look upon the collections exhibited as satisfactory considering the short time during which the survey has been going on, and the unfavourable weather of the past and present seasons. The number of views of the same object taken by members of the Society is to be regretted as a waste