Mr. Percy read his paper entitled “The Rise of Photography”

The paper reviewed the changes, & increasing facilities for photographic work from the first dawn of the art-science up to the present time. The essayist having had an experience of about half a century as an amateur photographer was enabled to give from personal experience the difficulties that had beset the path of the photographer in the old wet plate days, & the recent change that had come by the introduction of modern methods.

Many old photos were exhibited, some of which compared favourably with modern productions. Nearly all of them being Mr. Percy’s own work.