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Instantaneous Photographs of Wild Life 



INSTANTANEOUS photographs of hving wild 

 animals! An every-day matter, surely! And yet I 

 venture to maintain that until the recent successful photo- 

 graphing of American wild lite/ and a tew similar 

 photographs taken subsequently by Englishmen, all the 

 ostensible pictures of this kind we have seen have been 

 ot animals not in absolute freedom and not in their natural 

 surroundings. 



Photographs taken in zoological gardens and closed 

 preserves, or ))hotographs of animals in capti\it\-, sur- 

 round(,'d by stage [)roperties specially arranged tor the 

 purpose — photographs which, in addition, have been more 

 or less retouched afterwards — pass current, and are oftcji 

 taken for representations ot actual wild life. Anschi'itz 

 rendered great services in German\- in the field ot aiu'mal 

 ])hotogra])h\-, and prnckic-cd some beautiful pictures 

 Zoological works continued, however, to be illustrated 



' Civ/ura S//i)/s (1/ /)'/V (ia/zic, l)y A (1. Wallihan, contains a numl)cr 

 of very successfuf pliotograplis of different ]<intls of deer. The photographs 

 of pumas and l)ears are interesting, too; hut tlie pumas had heen liunted 

 with dogs, and tlie Ijears had been caught 1)V means of traps. 



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