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The Living Animals of the World 



surroundings pictorially. Photography ai:)plied to the illustration of the life of beasts, birds, 

 fishes, insects, corals, and plants is at once the most attractive and the most correct form of 

 illustration. In the following pages it will be used on a scale never equalled in any previous 

 publication. Without straining words, it may be said that the subjects photographed have been 

 obtained from every part of the world, many of them from the most distant islands of the 

 Southern Ocean, tlie great barrier reef of Australia, the New Zealand hills, the Indian jungle, 

 the South African veldt, and the rivers of British Columbia. Photographs of swimming fish, 

 the flying bird, and of the leaping salmon will be reproduced as accurately as those of the large 

 carnivora or the giant ungulates. In accordance with the example now being set by the 



JIuseum of Natural Histor^^, the 

 living breeds of domesticated 

 animals will also find a place. 

 The time and expenditure 

 employed in illustration will 

 be equalled b_v the attention 

 given to the descriptive por- 

 tion of the work. The Editor 

 will have the assistance of 

 specialists, eminent alike in 

 the world of science and 

 practical discovery. Mr. F. C. 

 Selous, for example, will deal 

 with the African Ijion and the 

 Elephants, and other sportsmen 

 with the big game of the Dark 

 Continent. j\Ir. W. Sa\'ille-Kent, 

 the author of "The Great 

 I'arrier Keof of Australia," will 

 treat of the Marsupials of Aus- 

 tralia and the Eeptilia ; Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell will WTite on 

 the Salmonidaj, and Mr. F. G. 

 Aflalo on the Whales and other 

 Cetacea of the deep seas; 

 while Mr. R. Lydekker, Dr. 

 Dowdier Sharpe, Mr. W. F. 

 ivirby, and other specialists 

 have kindly agreed to supervise 

 the work. Where possible the 

 illustrations will show the crea- 

 tures in their natural surround- 

 ings, and in all cases the 



SKELETONS OF JIAN AND GORILLA. 



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Tiiis pbotogmph shows the remarkaljle similarity in the structure of the hum;in fr'unie 

 (left) -iDtl that of the gorilla (right). This gorilla happened to l»e a particularly large 

 sjieciiiii-'D ; the man was of ordiuary height. 



