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Elwis R. Sasboks. 



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MH. .lA.MKS KARNKS. 



It is .1 utiuiiiu- plea.surc to place lifforc tlic 

 rtaders of the Bii.i.p:tin an illustrated article, 

 partly in the word.s of the exiilorer himself, 

 t'.iirlv convcyiiio; an index impression of a won- 

 derfully enter))risino- and successfid camera ex- 

 ))edition to the newest and best big-g.ime region 

 of eastern Africa. The members of the Zoo- 

 logical Society who s.iw Mr. Barnes' motion 

 pictures at the ainui.al meeting, fully recognize 

 their high /.oologic.-il v.alue and their r.arity. 



The illustrations that .•iccompany our story 

 of the Barnes-Kearton expedition h.i\ e been 

 kindly loaned for reproduction here from .Mr. 

 Barnes' forthcoming book, which will be en- 

 titled: "Through Central Africa from Coast to 

 Coast." .111(1 will be published by I). Ai)|)leton 

 iS; Co. 



MISS 1,1 1. 1,1 AX lil'.I.l.F, SACK. 



On April 6, after an illness of three 

 months, Miss Lillian Belle Sage, head of the 

 Hiology Department of the Washington Irving 

 High .School for (iirls. New York City, passed 

 from this life. Her untimely death caused deej) 

 regret to the oHicers of the Zoological Park statf, 

 .•ill of whom had come in touch with her through 

 her work. 



To Mis.s Sage belongs the honor of having 

 conceived and wrought out to .i triumphant con- 

 clusion the first vivarium ever installed in an 

 .\meric.in institution of learning. While it is 

 I rue. ill the working out of details, she had the 

 CO iiptr.itioii of scvir.il olficers of the Zoological 

 I'.irk. the iilc.i. .iiid lis execution were .ill dis- 

 liuctlv hers. She it w;is who siciircd the inclu- 



sion in the jiLiiis for the construction of the 

 Washington Irving School Building, the ])lans 

 of the vivarium ;md specificitions, and then se- 

 cured a maintenance arrangement. I'inally, 

 through her lectures and demonstrations, she 

 made the vivarium and its li\ ing creatures ac- 

 cessible to the thousands of New York school 

 children whose schools were within re.uli of the 

 Washington Irving High .School. 



Never, wc venture to say. was a zoological 

 teaching experiment more signally successful, 

 or more popular; and it is a satisfaction to re- 

 member that Miss Sage lived to witness the 

 triumph of her idc.-i. There is also some satis- 

 faction ill the thought th.it the Zoological I'ark 

 did its (hity in the matter. 



It is s.ife to preilict tli.il this vivarium will 

 set a f.isliion .iiiil become a model for similar 

 equi|)meiits in other Ainericiii schools; and we 

 sincerely hope that a tablet in .Miss Sage's mem- 

 ory, commemorating her initiative and her suc- 

 cess, will be erected in the \\';isliington Irving 

 High School to .-1 good teacher of ch.irining per- 

 s.malitv. ' W. T. H. 



ROSA BONIIKL RS PORTRAIT OK A 

 I.IONKSS." 



.Vfter .ill has been said that cm be s.iid, Rosa 

 Bonheur and Kdwin I.andseer were the first real 

 masters of wild .ininial portraiture. The inspi- 

 ration of their work goes on forever. The art 

 critics of to-day ui.iy call their work old-fash- 

 ioned and out of ditc. but to the world ;it large 

 it is immortal. 



I''ortuii.ite indeed is the Auuricm .art gal- 

 lery, public or priv.ate, that can show even one 

 painting by Rosa Bonheur. .\s a great sur- 

 prise, Mrs. Frederic Ferris Thompson has re- 

 cently |)laced the Zoological Society's collection 

 of wild .inimal ])ainting in that privileged class. 

 I)_v the gift of the superb "Portrait of a Lioness" 

 that is reproduced as the frontispiece of this 

 Bri.LKTiN. In size the canvas is ,31 x ."J" inches. 

 ;nul the |)ortr.iit, like nearly all "life-size " ])or- 

 tr.aits of men. is ;i little l.'irger th;iu life. 



No one who views this painting .is it li.ings 

 temporarily in the great recejition room of the 

 .\dministration Building, needs to be told tli.it 

 it is a masterjiiece. The dr.iwing. the hair 

 treatment, and the serene and dignitied f.icial 

 exjiression are fairly beyond the reach of criti- 

 cism. 



The Zoological .Society is fortun.ite in secur- 

 ing such a work of .irt .it this time, while the 

 g.-ilh'ry of |),'Uiitiiigs is still in its first st.-igc of 

 roriii.ilioii. 



