32 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
With Nature and a Camera. By Ricuarp Kearron, F.Z.S. 
Illustrated by 180 Pictures from Photographs by Carry 
Kearton. Cassell & Company Limited. 
Tuts is one of those delightful books which, though on the 
border land of science, can be read by the naturalist with 
pleasure and instruction, and will arouse the jaded appetite 
of the general reader. It is the record by two naturalists—for 
we car scarcely choose between the one who writes so well, and 
the brother who photographs so fearlessly—of “adventures and 
observations whilst wandering up and down the British Isles in 
search of subjects for our camera and note-book.”’ 
Photography is now becoming a valuable adjunct to zoology, 
and a new weapon for the collector and field naturalist. To 
obtain an exact reflection of a bird in its natural pose or in some 
little known attitude, to portray the nest in its natural surround- 
ings and with the incubator in position, is surely more to be 
desired than the effigies which can so often be truly described as 
“stuffed specimens.” Whilst on the other hand such photo- 
graphs will render possible the highest results in artistic 
taxidermy. But even more original work can now be done with 
the aid of a magnesium flash-light. We find on p. 233 the photo- 
graph of a Thrush at roost in a hedgerow, taken at nine o’clock 
on a January night, for which the authors claim, as far as they 
know, that it is ‘‘ the first photographic study of a wild bird on its 
natural roost ever made.” The portrait of a Barn Owl achieved 
by the same means in an old barn in Hssex, and a view of a red 
underwing moth in the act of sampling an entomologist’s 
“sugar” from the trunk of a tree, also afford suggestion as well 
as interest. 
The volume commences with the narrative of an expedition 
made to that “‘ paradise of British ornithologists,” the island of 
St. Kilda. The brave and kindly inhabitants of this isolated 
region, so near our own shores, have an anthropological interest 
