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city, thereby giving vigor, life, and thrift to all; and thus it would 

 go on until, before you would be aware of it, you would have a 

 city of hundreds of thousands of people, and be worth and pay a 

 rental on hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course, no general 

 trade would pay one hundred per cent per annum, but I have 

 adopted this rate to illustrate the principle. 



" The system of nontaxation of certain kinds of movable prop- 

 erty, which I am advocating as the correct system, while it is the best 

 to be adopted in every State, yet it will not make a rich State out 

 of every State, nor will it build up evry town to be a large city, by 

 any means. Thus, for instance, its application to a naturally poor 

 State could not induce movable property sufficient to go there to 

 make it a very rich State; still, if there is any way possible to de- 

 velop such a State, this is the one. 



" It think I have shown beyond question that it is not in harmony 

 with the interests of any one in any State to tax money, trade, manu- 

 factures, etc., and that, of all others, the owoiers of fixed or immov- 

 able property should demand that the present system be changed — 

 that they should say: Don't adopt any system that has a tendency 

 to drive movable property from me; but, on the contrary, adopt a 

 system that will attract it — for we are worth nothing without it, 

 and the movable property man may go elsewhere and do quite as 

 well." 



SOME USES OF THE CAMERA IN ZOOLOGY. 



By R. W. SHUFELDT, M. D., C. M. Z. S. 



PRACTICAL zoology in these days is realizing more and more 

 the benefits it is receiving from the use of the photographic 

 camera. These advantages are appreciated by naturalists, educators, 

 and the reading public, and are seen to be advancing along a variety 

 of lines; not the least important among these being the services 

 accruing therefrom to the morphologist, the zoological artist and 

 illustrator, and to the taxidermist. To the first named the assist- 

 ance rendered by photography to his science has been some time 

 •established, having a number of years ago been placed upon a prac- 

 tical working basis. Its most successful operations are seen in the 

 photomicrographs produced at the hands of the skilled laborers in 

 such fields. Osteology is another department wherein distinct gains 

 have resulted from photography. Bones and skeletons of every 

 species of vertebrate are now illustrated in a manner that for beauty, 

 accuracy, and permanency of the work, defies any character of illus- 

 tration heretofore known, not even excepting the best grade of wood- 



