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can be given. I fixed the flower to a gray Deer are common in Connecticut at 

 mounting board and with the camera present and can be seen on almost any 

 racked out to the full extent, about thirty day along the country roads. Tie 



inches, exposed for the full ten seconds, 

 and to avoid harsh shadows held the lamp 



THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS. 



for two seconds on the right hand side of 

 the camera and eight on the left side, also 

 moving it sideways and up and down, 

 thus producing the soft shadows shown 

 in the picture. The lens used was a Carl 

 Ziess Protar stopped down to almost a 

 pin hole. Development was with metol 

 hydrochinone and good old pyro. With 

 a still life subject like the Cereus the 

 speed of the lens does not matter, but it 

 must have depth of focus. With the cats 

 it was different ; there the lens could not 

 be too quick. The picture was made with 

 an open lens, though one would hardly 

 think so if he judged by the amount of 

 detail seen in the picture, and the same 

 developer was used. 



G. B. Windsor. 



Deer Impaled on a Fence. 



Stamford, C< mnecticut. 

 To the Editor : 



On October 9, a fidl grown doe 

 dashed through the streets of Noroton, 

 and tried to jump an iron picket fence 

 seven feet high. It missed the lea 1 ) by 

 a few inches and iirmaled itself on the 

 fence, a picket piercing its heart. The 

 deer died after giving a shrill piercing 

 crv which was heard throughout the 

 village. Tt weighed about 250 lbs. 



game law will not be out on deer till 

 19 1 7. 



The report rapidly spread that a 

 "Bull Moose" had been caught, and 

 hundreds of people came in automo- 



TIIE TRAGEDY OF THE DEER. 



biles to see the body still hanging on 

 the fence. 



Brown & Dawson 



The accompanying illustration is 

 from a copyrighted photograph sup- 

 plied to The Guide to Nature by 

 Brown & Dawson of Stamford. — Ed. 



