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YEARBOOK, PUBLIC MUSEUM, MILWAUKEE 



[Vol. II. 



During our stay on the Island, from June 30th to August 2nd, Mr. 

 Stoddard had been lowered to every ledge and to every projecting rock 

 that we could approach from above, and properly secure our ropes. 

 After lowering him, we lowered the Akeley Motion Picture Camera 

 and sometimes a 5x7 Graflex. In some places there was not room for 

 a tripod, at such places we lowered the motion picture camera, dis- 

 mounted. He worked it from a rock ledge any place he could find as 

 a base. 



Our party is credited, by the settlers of the Island, with having 



Fig. 22. — Transporting collecting outfit to the Gannet Ledges. Bonaventure 



Island. 



photographed the different bird colonies and the Island in general, more 

 thoroughly than any party that ever visited there. In fact, very few 

 visitors, excepting relatives of those living there, had ever stayed more 

 than a day or two, so that our visit of more than a month was an event 

 that will long be remembered by the residents of the Island. Nine 

 thousand feet of motion picture film were exposed, which includes pic- 

 tures of the Gannet ledges from all possible angles from the rocks and 



^'aSee "Notes on a Side Trip to the Gaspe Cormorant Colony," by H. L. Stod- 

 dard, pp. 36 of this issue. 



