
el SOS CA ALE, 
must shoot at my next glimpse of the 
game, or lose my head. I had not long to 
wait for the old fellow was now only to 
or 12 rods distant. The report of my .30- 
30 broke the stillness and the deer bounded 
out of sight. Eager to learn the effect of 
my shot I hastened forward and discovered 
fresh blood on the light snow that cov- 
ered the ground. After following the trail 
about 200 yards, I saw a pair of legs ex- 
tended upward and in motion. The buck 
had fallen from the effects of the bullet, 
and in his struggles had rolled into a small 
depression in the ground. 
[ paused a moment to study the situ- 
ation, but his legs soon became motion- 
less, and it was evident my quarry had re- 
ceived a finishing shot. The soft nosed 
bullet had entered rather high behind his 
shoulder; and “the outside claw of his 
left hind foot was the longest.” 
Eta SOO UNG asa. 
I send you herewith a bonafide photo of 
2 meteors photographed on November 
i5, 1898, at I:40 a. m. The camera was set 
at I a. m. and at 1:40 the meteor hove in 
sight. A few smaller ones appeared ear- 
lier and imprinted themselves on the neg- 

METEORIC PHOTOGRAPHY. 
ative but were eaten off the print by the 
toning solution. — : 
A hissing sound came from the direc- 
tion of the constellation Orion, and the 
earth became as bright as day—so bright. 
in fact, that a newspaper could be read 
for at least 5 minutes. Two meteors met 
from opposite directions (East and West). 
A splitting sound could be plainly heardias 
they came together and formed a perfect 
arc in the sky. They remained this way 
for something like 10 seconds; then they 
took an irregular course across the sky, 
leaving streaks in the sky that took at 
least I0 minutes to disappear. 
This photo was taken by Charles L. 
Huson, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
137 
This seems to be the second fortunate 
picture, ranking next to one made by an 
astronomer up the state, who I believe, is 
connected with Columbia University. 
I send you herewith a photo of a mule 
deer and a fan tail deer head, showing the 
telative sizes of the antlers in each. 
The fan tail deer is smaller than our 
white tail deer (Virgimianus) while the tail 
seems longer. They are rare now in this 
section, but in 1871-2-3 I killed a good 
many on the flat top mountain North of 
Big Spring creek and Northeast of the 
Judith river, Montana; also in the South- 
ern part of the Moccasin mountains and 
about 10 or 15 miles South of Black butte, 
on the headwaters of McDonald creek. 
No. 210 shows the antlers of the fan 
tail deer. Beam length, measured from 
top of one antler along same to burr, then 
across to burr of other antler and along 

AMATEUR PHOTO BY AUGUST GOTTSCHALCK. 
SNTLERS OF MULE DEER AND FAN TAIL DEER. 
same to tip, 28% inches; width or spread 
of antlers, 11 inches. Straight line meas- 
ure from top of: skull between antlers 
to top of antlers, 8% inches. 
No. 215, mule deer head. Beam length, 
63 inches; spread, 27144 inches; straight 
line to top of antlers, 23 inches. 
Game, especially deer, suffered consider-. 
ably last winter from mountain lions. 
Snow is deep yet in the mountains and 
bear hunting has just commenced, several 
parties meeting with good success. 
Aug. Gottschalck, Bozeman, Mont. 
Why don’t you join the. L. A. S? “Are 
you not willing to contribute $1 a year to 
increase the supply of game and game 
fishes, of song and insectivorous birds? 
Please answer. 
