Chapter I: R. R. Valentine Schindler, a learned German, was born at Oedern, in

Misnia, and became professor of the Oriental languages at Wittemberg, and at Helmstadt, where he died in 1611.--Rodrigo Sanchez de Arevalo, Lat._ Rodericus Sanctius, _a learned Spanish prelate, was born in 1404. He was successively promoted to the bishoprics of Zamora, Calahorra, and Palencia. He died in 1470._

W. S., A TOPOGRAPHER, AND P. B. _For a person to be eligible to the "Antiquarian Photographic Club," he must be a Fellow of the Royal or Antiquarian Societies, or a member of the Royal Institution, and be unanimously elected. This rule, after much consideration, was decided by its promoters. A few others than Photographers are admitted, who join the excursions, and are required to furnish the notes, historical and literary, of the spots visited._

H. H. (Glasgow) _is thanked for the kind manner in which he speaks of our services to photography_.