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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Examples of Submarine Photography. 



air, and it may be found in the end 

 that this advantage will more than 

 counterbalance the chances of failing 

 to the earth. However these things 

 may be or whatever may happen or 

 not happen, there is every reason to 

 congratulate Messrs Orville and Wil- 

 bur Wright on their great achievement 

 and on the careful scientific research 

 which preceded it and on which it rests. 

 This is true in spite of the catas- 

 trophe that has occurred since these 

 words were put in type. It appears 

 that government officials are respon- 

 sible for requiring the premature de- 

 livery of an aeroplane that would carry 

 two persons. To an outsider it would 



seem that ballast should have 

 tried, and that protective 

 should have been worn. 



been 



clothing 



THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF AQUATIC 

 ANIMALS IN THEIR NATURAL 



ENVIRONMENT 

 At the seaside laboratory of Roscoff, 

 in 1893 and subsequently, Dr. L. Bou- 

 tan made the first submarine photo- 

 graphs by means of a submerged cam- 

 era. He was not successful with a 

 camera immersed directly in sea water, 

 owing to the lack of a suitable lens, but 

 got clear and good photographs with 

 cameras enclosed in water-tight boxes, 

 both with sunlight and in deeper water 



