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Instantaneous Photographs of Wild Life 



INSTANTANEOUS photographs of living wild 

 animals ! An every-day matter, surely ! And yet I 

 venture to maintain that until the recent successful photo- 

 graphing of American wild life, 1 and a few similar 

 photographs taken subsequently by Englishmen, all the 

 ostensible pictures of this kind we have seen have been 

 of animals not in absolute freedom and not in their natural 

 surroundings. 



Photographs taken in zoological gardens and closed 

 preserves, or photographs of animals in captivity, sur- 

 rounded by stage properties specially arranged for the 

 purpose photographs which, in addition, have been more 

 or less retouched afterwards pass current, and are often 

 taken for representations of actual wild life. Anschutz 

 rendered great services in Germany in the field of animal 

 photography, and produced some beautiful pictures 

 Zoological works continued, however, to be illustrated 



1 Camera Shots at Big Game, by A G. Wallihan, contains a number 

 of very successful photographs of different kinds of deer. The photographs 

 of pumas and bears are interesting, too ; but the pumas had been hunted 

 with dogs, and the bears had been caught by means of traps. 



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