The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-12 00:00:00

LONDON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

Last night the interesting ceremony of presenting
medals to suc'i members of this society as had dis-
tinguished themselves by superior excellence in the
art of photography took place at King's College,
the presentation being made by Sir F. Pollock, lately
Chief Baron of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer,
the president of the society.
The learned president on entering the room was
most cordially welcomed by the members of the
society.
Dr. DIAMOND having read the minutes of the
meeting, which were confirmed,

Sir F. POLLOCK, previous to distributing the
medals, made a short and interesting address on the
progress of the human race within the last seventy
years. He mentioned incidentally that he remem-
bered very well the outbreak of the French revolu-
tion, the rise and fall of Napoleon 1., and various
other striking features in that revolution. He re-
marked that probably in no equal period of the
world's history had so many important political
events been crowded together, while on the othe r
hand the progress of arts and sciences and their
application to commerce and every-day life had been
still greater. The principal events which had in-
fluenced the history of the human race were the
application of steam to locomotion, the discovery of
the electric telegraph, and also of photography and
its application to every day life, and to the promo-
tion of science. (Hear, hear.) Having referred to
the fact that the construction and working of rail-
ways had reduced Great Britain, for all purposes of
personal communication, to the capacity of a single
English county in former days, and to the
fact that the electric telegraph had brought the
whole world as it were much closer together, he
spoke of the great merits of photography not only
as a means assisting science (remarking that it had
led to the discovery of the true character by Mr.
Delarne of the red spots on the sun, which had been
observed by astronomers), and also as a means of
detecting and identifying criminals. Referring to his
recent retirement from the bench, he observed that
when he ceased to be an advocate and became a
judge, be felt an immense relief in not having to
try to persuade a jury that a plaintiff or a defen-
dant was in the right, but that his duty was con-
fined to discover what was the real truth between
them ; he found that it was a still greater relief
to have no question to decide as between A and B,
but leisure to look to the entire truth of all nature,
and to pursue the study of philosophy. (Cheers.)
Among other things he hoped that he should be able
to devote more attention to the Photographic Society
than he was able to do before under the heavy pres-
sure of his judicial duties, of tthe weight of which he
was never so fully conscious as when he had left the
bench. (Cheers.)
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Medals were then awarded to Lord Hawarden
(one to his lordship, and one on account of the ex-
cellence in photograph of the late Lady Hawarden) ;
to Mr. Fenton, the founder of the society ; Mr. Bed-
ford (landscape photography), Messrs. Robinson and
Thompson, Col. Wortley, Messrs. Claudet,Williams,
and Jubert, Major Gresley, Mr. Toovey, Dr. Maddox,
Mr. Buxton, Mr. M'Farlane, Mr. England, and Mr.
Mudd. The medals presented were extremely beau-
tiful, bearing on the obverse a portrait of the late
Prince Consort, the patron of the institution, and
on the reverse the figure of Phaeton driving the
horses of the sun, designed by Bartolozzi.
After the presentation of the medals Mr. Dall-
meyer delivered an interesting discourse upon a new
portrait lens, the discussion upon which was ad-
journed.
A vote of thanks to the president concluded the
proceedings.

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