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tlie same time produees permanent and trutliful reeords 

 of the eountless beautiful forms around us. 



In tlie whole ran<;e of pliotograpliic j)ossil)ilities, wide 

 as it is. where can any sid^jeet be found more worthy of 

 ones best energies and keenest enthusiasm than the portrayal 

 of the inner life, haunts, and habits of the wild free inha])itants 

 of woodland, meadow, mountain, and marsh ( 



As Buekland says, there are so many men who have 

 the time and the money, and there must l)e so many who 

 badly Mant a new sensation, and some definite object in 

 life, that I wonder it has never struck some of them what 

 a good time they could have. Hundreds have yachts lying 

 idle half the year, and find the time go slowly for want of 

 an occupation. ^Nlost sportsmen have at least a hking for 

 natural history and collecting, which only wants encouraging 

 to turn them into enthusiasts. I^et them start an expedition 

 photographic — and collecting too, if they like — with some 

 definite object in \ iew : some long-debated point in natural 

 history to clear up, or some newly disco\ered fact to pro\'e 

 more comincingly by means of photographs, or some fast- 

 disappearing species to be photographed before it finally 

 vanishes from off the face of the earth. 



The dwindliu"" faima of South Africa badlv needs a 

 photographic historian. That this would not be an impossible 

 task I.,ord Delamere's interesting series of photographs is 

 conclusive proof. It is a pity that there are not more such 

 expeditions. 



Uganda, from all accounts, would be a paradise for a 



