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and were it not for the shriek of a child warning him of the 
danger he would probably not have survived. He had seen some 
strange things on the plate of his camera, but nothing like that 
sudden flash. At another time he took hold of one end of the 
apparatus and a tiger of the other, and he only induced him to 
let go by sending clouds of tobacco smoke into the beast’s face. 
The tiger series included some magnificent photographs, which 
were loudly applauded on being put on the sheet. Leopards 
also were the leading figures in some of the finest pictures 
_shewn. The Lecturer described them as by far the most diffi- 
cult of all the carnivora to take in a standing position and in 
a dull light. Photographs of the jaguar, the Polar bear, the sea 
lion, and of elephants followed Alluding to the difficulty of 
taking elephants, he gave an anecdote of an elephant he was 
required to photograph. It had lately been covered from head 
to foot with oil, and no sooner was it brought out into the 
light than it was covered with flies, and tail and trunk busied 
themselves removing them. After spending three days over the 
animal, and wasting a great number of plates, he was obliged 
to resort to instantaneous photography. The rhinoceros, the 
tapir, and zebras were the subjects of a great number of slides, 
and camels, hippopotami, bisons, wild cattle, antelopes, and 
giraffes followed. Photographs of wild kangeroos were shewn, 
over which the Lecturer said he had wasted 180 plates, and 
only obtained good negatives by going along the grass like the 
old serpent, dragging his camera behind him, and gradually 
raising it when a favourite opportunity occurred. 
After shewing an extremely interesting series of photos of 
wild birds, he animadverted on the efforts of the average photo- 
grapher in taking domestic animals. He said in Brighton he 
had been through the streets to see what sort of work was to 
be found in the shop windows, and it was the old story, rows 
of dogs’ heads, lacking expression as much as they do bodies 
--dogs and cats lying down in sleepy positions or sitting up, 
looking like wooden dummies ; horses and cows with three legs 
and a smudge representing the tail or ears, all with the scared 
look that tells of the assistant not far off, waving a handkerchief 
or clapping his hands, or taken at such an angle that the heads 
were large enough for elephants, whilst the bodies faded away 
into the distance, “ fine by degrees and beautifully less.” It was 
an amusing to enter with a dog and say in a quiet way that 
you wished him taken standing, and above all with his tail up. 
The innumerable excuses that would be invented, the old, old 
story that heads were so much more fashionable and artistic, 
_ that they looked so natural when lying down or sitting up, any- 
thing, in fact, but standing, and above all, without that exasper- 
