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worth the while. Still another class is represented by 

 peqple more or less intelligent, with eyes, and, up to a 

 certain point, observing. When such return to their 

 homes, be it in New York, Chicago, Washington, or 

 some other city, after spending months in the unknown 



tion envy, associated with the feeling that these oppor- 

 tunities, so barren of final results, could not have fallen 

 to them. 



Omitting, perhaps, one or two subclasses of such 

 travelers, we finally meet with representatives of a 



parts of Thibet, or Borneo, or up the great rivers of limited group that are worth the while the group for 

 South America; after scrambling through the forests which this article has been written. Such a representa- 

 of Java and the jungles of India, or rambling along the tive is of an inquiring mind ; fearless to the point of 



shores of Formosa, Java, 

 or Timor in recounting 

 the incidents of their ex- 

 plorations, ever and anon 

 they will tell of some re- 

 markable butterfly they saw 

 in swarms on the edge of 

 such and such a forest ; a 

 marvelous shell they dis- 

 covered on such and such a 

 beach ; or a most wonderful 

 bird they saw, the male of 

 which, when the female had 

 laid her single egg' in the 

 hollow of a tree, sealed her 

 up in the cavity with mud, 

 feeding her through a hole 

 purposely left in it, until 

 the young one was ready to 

 leave the nest. At this 

 point in the tale, in these 

 days, someone present nat- 

 urally asks : "Did you have 

 your camera with you?" 

 Upon being answered in 

 the affirmative backed by 

 a "why ?" the interrogator 

 will have very good reason 

 for inquiring why no nega- 

 tives were made of all these 

 things, when it was possible 

 to do so. Usually comes 

 the answer : "Yes, I could 

 have taken no end of such 

 photographs; but of what 

 use would they have been 

 to anyone ? Naturalists 

 must be familiar with all 

 such things by this time." 

 This is far very far 

 from the truth in many, 

 many instances. And, while 

 naturalists may possess the 



fact or facts in regard to the habits of this or of that 

 bird, bat, or butterfly they only too frequently have 

 no photographic pictures illustrating its appearance in 

 its natural habitat, and the character, in some instances, 

 of its actual environment. Intelligent travelers who have 

 availed themselves of every possible opportunity their 

 various journeyings have offered them, turn from such 

 people with a deep sense of disappointment, not to men- 



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JACK-IN-THE-FULPIT AS IT GROWS 



Figure 2. Often it is difficult to obtain a photograph of a flower 

 growing in the shady woods. In this picture is shown the exact 

 appearance of a plant taken in such a situation. 



recklessness; an intelligent 

 observer indeed, he pos- 

 sesses all those mental and 

 physical requirements and 

 traits of character, found 

 in explorers of little-known 

 parts of the world, that 

 make for success and 

 achievements, and that 

 finally materialize in the 

 form of results bringing 

 the most good to the great- 

 est number of people. When 

 such a person, armed with 

 the proper equipment for 

 taking serviceable photo- 

 graphic pictures, meets with 

 some interesting flower, 

 plant, or tree, in the far- 

 off wilds in the least travel- 

 ed parts of the world, he 

 sees to it that he secures a 

 negative of it, as good a one 

 as he could possibly make 

 under the circumstances at- 

 tending the discovery of the 

 specimen. 



Travelers of this class 

 are often of a receptive 

 order, and more than de- 

 sirous of acquiring the kind 

 of knowledge of field pho- 

 tography which will enable 

 them to make negatives, 

 prints from which will con- 

 stitute positive contribu- 

 tions to science, to popular 

 literature for the instruc- 

 tion of the average reader, 

 or for authoritative text- 

 books, to be used in the 

 class-rooms of schools and 

 colleges. Now, there are 

 a great many points that the photographer of plant and 

 animal life in the field must know and master before he 

 can command a class of pictures that will be of value 

 and use in the quarters above enumerated. 



Perhaps the least successful person in work of this 

 class is he who believes he possesses a complete knowl- 

 edge of all that is required ; who thinks that all one has 

 to do to get a picture is to point one's camera at the 



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