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sportsmen ; indeed, he regards the act of destroying an antelope 

 as 'devilish,' but his sympathy with the settler who is also a 

 sportsman is strong, and his views should be studied with care 

 and compared with those of Lord Hindlip, printed in this number. 



E. B. Schilling's ' Mit BliMicht undBiichse' (' With Flashlight 

 and Camera ') is by a German, written in German, and describes 

 expeditions in German East Africa. He is a hunter of the some- 

 what sensational, order, and his practice of catching lions to 

 traps is contrary to our code, but in his illustrations he has 

 opened a new line for photographers of wild life. His flashlight 

 and camera are self-acting, and' apparently are operated by wires 

 which are stretched near live baits or drinking places in such 

 a way that the creatures striking them in the dark release the 

 apparatus. The portraits thus secured of predatory animals, as 

 well as of those upon whom they prey, if "not of high class as 

 photographs, are very suggestive of 'the demeanour of both. 

 Those of a lioness in the act of killing a donkey, and of a herd of 

 mpala, are full of character. 



In the present number we are favoured with signed con- 

 tributions by members of our Society. We wish to encourage 

 this practice in the future, and shall always welcome such articles 

 from the pen of those who, like Mr. P. L. Sclater, have made 

 various aspects of the question of the conservation of species their 

 especial study. Their views may not always commend themselves 

 to the Society as a whole, but they have an authority of their own 

 due to the personal weight of their writers. 



