ONE OF THE OLDEST " NATURE DOCUMENTS " FROM THE HAND OF MAN. 

 PREHISTORIC SKETCH OF A MAMMOTH ON A FRAGMENT OF IVORY. 



(From L. Reinhardt's work Der Mensch ziir Eiszeit in Europa.) 



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From the Cave-dweller's Sketch to the 

 Flashlight Photograph 



' f " 1 1 [^. mysterious charm of wild nature, undisturbctl, 

 J- almost untouched, b}- the hand of mm, — the charm 

 inherent in all that I ha\e in mind when I talk ot 'the 

 spell (jf the Elelescho" — explains the keen and proloimd 

 interest with which my [)ictures of animal lite were 

 received at home. 



In these davs. when c:ven electricity has been harnessed 

 b\' men, there is a A.-eling that the knell has been sounded 

 of all that is wild, be it man or beast. \m\ h.owever 

 unpretending- and inadecpiatc the little pictures might be 

 that I had won from the wilderness, yet all naturedovers 

 felt that they had here before them authentic, fn'st-hand 

 records rexealiuL;- secrets which the eye ol man had never 

 before looked upon, or had had but scant opportunity for 

 studying. 



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