Unpublished paper, 'On the application of photography to the physiognomic and mental phenomena of insanity' by Hugh W [Welch] Diamond Diamond explains that his position as 'Medical Superintendent of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum' [London] has enabled him to to take photographic portraits of inpatients at the facility. He describes how portraits of inpatients can be taken over the period of their time at the facility to be kept as records for study and comparison by the physician and psychologist. Annotations in pencil throughout. Subject: Photography / Psychiatry Received 23 April 1856. Read 22 May 1856. Communicated by Admiral [William Henry] Smyth. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the application of photography to the physiognomic and mental phenomena of insanity'. April 1856