2 INTRODUCTION 



the destruction continues, and at our second 

 awakening we are probably too late. 



We owe a great deal to those who follow us, for 

 we are the stewards into whose keeping the world 

 is entrusted ; we populate the world with our 

 children who have the right to ask an account of 

 our stewardship, and their children, and their 

 children's children after them. As we build 

 museums and libraries to store away and preserve 

 to the best of our ability those things which though 

 perishable, we believe to be of interest, so must we 

 do all in our power to protect the birds and animals 

 that are practically imperishable except through 

 man's too frequent destructive agency. Some 

 animals are probably doomed to extermination, as 

 wild creatures at any rate, and perhaps also as 

 captives ; among these are the lions, leopards, rhino- 

 ceroses and others, whose methods of life are not 

 conducive to human advancement and comfort. 

 They can only be preserved as mounted specimens 

 and in photographs ; such pictures whether single 

 or cinematographs will be of untold interest to 

 those who follow us and we should feel the obliga- 

 tion of not only securing really good negatives but 

 of having those we have got properly cared for. 

 Too often have I urged this and yet how little is 

 being done ! With the beaver it is not so much a 

 question of securing photographs, for the beaver 

 do not lend themselves to pictorial efforts. It is 

 a question of securing for him proper protection. 



