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An ai:4Te(!al)k; contrast to such jiuhlications is otlcrctl by 

 (jLiitc a num1)('r ot volumes by b>n^lish writers, th(! illustra- 

 tions to which arc rcinarkabh; ])olh lor their artistic merit 

 and h)i' their accuracy Irom a naturahst's point ot \ie\v. 1 

 may instance especially I^ord Delamere's photographs of 

 ele])hants. e'irafies, and /.ebi'as in The (irciil aiicl Siiial/ 

 (raiuc 0/ .1 Inca. 



Ok(;i,I(;il, .MV TAXIDKKMISI', setting our MK.N — "lUNUl"' -TO WORK. 

 AT TlIK I'KKI'ARATION OF SOME SKINS 



President Roosevelt remarks ver\ rie^htly, in his j)reface 

 to Wallihan's Camera S//o/s at lU^ (,'a;/n\ that it would 

 l)(; e.xtremcK ridiculous il p(M)pl(' who could not themscK'es 

 face; the hardships and tatij^ue of shootinn expctlitions, 

 or who lack('(l the training' essential, were to decorate 

 their rooms with rare trophic^s not securetl b\' themselves. 

 iManv p(;()ple, howe\er, would seem not to realise this. 



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