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seconds, so as to bring out the detail. Of course this greatly 
increased the difficulty. Such animals as tigers and bears were 
hardly ever quiet in captivity, but were engaged in a sort of go- 
as-you-please competition, which had made it considered as 
reasonable to expect to take such an animal standing as to fix 
an elephant’s head in a rest and ask him to look pleasant. 
Some animals got frantic at the sight of the camera, especially 
the lens, as they thought it a great staring eye. Animals did all 
they could to frustrate the photographer by making themselves as 
unpicturesque as possible, and were by no means willing sitters. 
Of the value of the work when done he said that animals and 
birds that are useless to ‘man have had their day, had already 
reached and passed their zenith, and the time was. not far distant 
when photographs of many of these would be sought after, and, 
like a really good large photograph of the quagga or dodo to- 
day, would be almost priceless, for following these they had 
many such as the bison (American and European), zebra, giraffe, 
and hippopotamus fast disappearing before the march of civilisa- 
tion, and it could only now be a question of a comparatively 
few years before they, too, became extinct, and paintings, and, 
above all, photographs, would alone shew what they were like. 
The Lecturer commenced the exhibition of slides with one 
specimen of how not to do it. The figure was that of a lion 
standing behind the bars of his cage, and the whole picture 
the Lecturer neatly summed up by remarking that beyond a 
nose and a few hairs there was absolutely nothing but a very 
fine study of iron bars. The slide, he was informed by the 
maker, had been sold by thousands, and was used all over the 
civilised world with lecturers as an example of what the king 
of beasts looked like. The hand-camera and _ instantaneous 
school were, he said, particularly fond of those negatives, one of 
them observing to him last year that he thought the bars gave a 
greater idea of the animal’s ferocity and strength. He forgot 
to add that he could not possibly photograph them without the 
bars, as he was not permitted to get inside the outer enclosure 
at the Zoological Gardens. The Lecturer’s idea of how to do it 
was a magnificent view of a lion, standing, and without the 
bars, a photograph which he said was the result of a week’s 
study of the animal’s habits. Another photograph shewn, also 
unique in its way, cost him about fifteen hours’ waiting at the 
cage, three days of five hours each. Of the difficulties attend- 
ing the taking of a group of lion cubs, he said they were so 
inquisitive when they saw the camera they almost sat down on it. 
A series of photographs of tigers followed, and of one of 
these the lecturer said after taking it he had his head under 
the cloth to take another, when the animal sprang upon ‘him, 
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