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PSS Meetings

May 1859 to May 1866

 

Please see 1856-1859 for earlier PSS Meetings

 

10

5

1859

Committees on Lenses

[Report]

7

12

1859

Mr Sang

Author not at Meeting

On Photographic Printing Frames

7

12

1859

Dr. Simpson

Author not at Meeting

The Chemistry of Photography  =  A Communication on an easy way of recovering the silver from waste nitrate baths.

10

1

1860

Dr. R Paterson   [Leith]

An Account of a new Dry Collodion Process, as successfully practised last Autumn

14

2

1860

Horatio Ross

Author not at Meeting

Report on the Competition for the Society’s Medals and the Maconochie Welwood Prize in the Present Exhibition

14

2

1860

James Mudd

Author not at Meeting

On the Collodion-Albumen Process

13

3

1860

HP Robinson

Author not at Meeting

On Composing and Printing Single Photographs from Several Negatives  -  illustrated by a number of photographs of groups and figures produced, but the process described, and  which Mr Robinson had presented to the Society

13

3

1860

John Macnair

Account of the Dry Collodion Process, briefly noticed at the Meeting in January with the result of Subsequent Experiments in preparing the Plates; - illustrated by  Views taken by the Process.

A question having arisen as to the exact nature of the solution of Malt employed as a preservative coating on the collodion plate, on the suggestion of the Chairman, it was agreed to submit some of the solution to Professor Lyon Playfair, in order that he might ascertain its exact composition.

10

4

1860

Sir David Brewster

Notice respecting the Invention of the Stereoscope in the sixteenth century, and of Binocular Drawings by Jacopo Chimenli, da Empoli a Florentine Artist

10

4

1860

Findlay Anderson

On Photographic Landscapes

10

4

1860

Rev TM Raven

Author not at Meeting

On the Preparation of Paper for the Waxed Paper Process with some remarks on the effects produced on Sensitised Positive Paper by Contact with papers which have been exposed to light

8

5

1860

Walter Hardie
- a printer in Edinburgh

Author not at Meeting

a paper on a very ingenious and talented method he had devised of “Drawing a Stereoscopic Representation of a Single Picture.

[This Paper was not read at the Meeting, because of pressure of time, but it was agreed that it should be held as having been before the Society, and accordingly sent with the Report of the Meeting to the Photographic Journal for publication.

8

5

1860

Mons. A Claudet

Author not at Meeting

Photography in its relation to the Fine Arts

This Paper was read by the PSS Hon Sec]

8

5

1860

CJ Burnett

Author not at Meeting

Brief Remarks on the Burning in of Photographs on Porcelain

11

12

1860

Mr Walker

Notes on the Macnair Process

11

12

1860

Mr Tunny

On a New and Simple Method of clearing the Silver Solution used in Printing

8

1

1861

TB Johnston

Practical Observations on the Macnair Process [by an amateur]

8

1

1861

Mr Taylor

On Silver and its Salts - together with various practical illustrations of their formation.

12

2

1861

Sir David Brewster

On Photographic and Stereoscopic Portraiture

12

2

1861

Horatio Ross

Report on the Competition for the Society’s Silver Medals, offered for the two best pictures in the Present Exhibition

12

2

1861

M A Claudet

Author not at Meeting

[a communication from him read by Hon Sec]

On the Lens which regulates the Conjugate Foci, and the Sizes and Properties of Images, according to the Distance of Objects  -  A New Method of Computing the Various Measurements.

12

2

1861

CJ Burnett

Author not at Meeting

[letter from him read by Hon Sec]

Notes on various matters concerned with Photography

1.  Improvements on Photographic Etching

2.  Methods of joining photographs so that the margin forms a part of the paper on which the picture itself is printed.

12

3

1861

F Maxwell Lyte

Author not at Meeting

[read by Hon Sec]

On Photography - detailing his method of positive printing

12

3

1861

Mrs Walker

Author not at Meeting

On Art Photography

[paper read by Mr Walker]

9

4

1861

Sir David Brewster

Mons Claudet’s Discoveries in Photography.
[This was a speech given by Sir David Brewster on the occasion of his presenting a Medal to Mons Claudet who came personally to Edinburgh to receive it.]

9

4

1861

Mr Cr….
[Hon Sec of West of Scotland Photographic Society]

The Albumen Process  -  detailing various modifications

12

11

1861

TB Johnston

On Photographing under a New Difficulty

[He was challenged when he attempted to take photographs on the open road.]

10

12

1861

AJ MacFarlane

[Don’t know whether or not he was present; no minutes in book.]

On the Application of Photography to the Delineation of Disease - with remarks on microscopic photography &c.

10

12

1861

Mr Nicol

[Don’t know whether or not he was present; no minutes in book.]

On the Manufacture of Photographic Pyroxiline

11

2

1862

Sir David Brewster

[Don’t know whether or not he was present; no minutes in book.]

Zincography

11

2

1862

Herrotto Kohnke Mehlbye Schleswig

[Don’t know whether or not he was present; no minutes in book.]

On a New Mode of obtaining photographs without the use of Chloride of Silver or Hyposulphate of Soda  [+ specimens exhibited]

8

4

1862

?

[Don’t know whether or not he was present; no minutes in book.]

Clementi’s Drawings - the invention of the Stereoscope - Photographic Engraving - Artificial Light for Photography - and other topics connected with the Art

13

1

1863

Thomas Sutton

Author not at Meeting

[A communication read by the Hon Sec]

On some of the Uses and Abuses of Photography

13

1

1863

A Claudet

Author not at Meeting

[A communication read by the Hon Sec]

Notes on the Mode of Producing Enlarged Photographs by means of the Solar Camera

13