A correspondent writes to ask what has become of the old Photographic Society. Frankly we do not know, and some other correspondent must be appealed to to give the desired information. It seems pity that such a society should have gone out of existence, for, if we remember rightly, it used to hold very attractive annual exhibitions and such a society might form an invaluable means of collecting and filing pictures of our ever changing Shanghai for historical record. Numbers must, exist now buried private collections. The difficulty, perhaps, which a photographic society would have to encounter in a Place like Shanghai, is that the number of really keen photographers who are ever for experimenting and trying new things is small and the vast army of mere button-pressers, with some one else to "do the rest", is not much use for pho: o-graphic societies. At home the field is wider, the atmosphere more stim-
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