CHAPTER IX. 



CONCLUSION. 



T N commencing the last chapter of this short work the 

 writer feels only too conscious of having failed to 

 do more than give the merest outline of the possibilities 

 of natural history photography. He has been com- 

 pelled to abandon the idea of writing chapters on 

 geological and botanical subjects by the necessity of 

 confining the subject matter within definite and reason- 

 able limits. A reasonable photographic division of the 

 subjects with which naturalists are concerned seemed 

 to be effected by distinguishing those forms of life 

 which have the power of rapid locomotion from those 

 which have not. This division has excluded the 

 consideration of the photography of plants. The living 

 and moving creatures selected as examples have, with 

 very few exceptions, been taken from among the 

 common British varieties. 



As stated in Chapter III., the photography of bird 

 life has, as regards the methods employed, already 

 been exhaustively treated. A quality which is 

 absolutely essential to successful bird-stalking is the 

 possession of keen sight, and the fact that this vital 

 point does not appear to be touched upon in the 

 works hitherto published makes it worth recording. 



