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was the first President of a Society vastly developed since then, 
and now one of our famous scientific institutions. To have done 
this is alone sufficient to enshrine Raffles in the annals of the 
vast zoological enterprise which has been achieved by our own 
countrymen. 
The last years of Raffles were clouded by many worries and 
ill-health. The success of his career had ensured envy, hatred, 
malice, and all uncharitableness. He died suddenly, in his 
forty-fifth year, was buried in Hendon Parish Church, ‘“ but, 
owing to differences with the vicar, a member of a slave-owning 
family, no monument was erected at the time, and the actual site 
of the grave has not been ascertained.”’ 
This is a book that may well be studied by Colonial poli- 
ticlans, imperialistic or otherwise, and the naturalist will read the 
life-history of the founder of our Zoological Society. 
All about Animals. George Newnes, Limited. 
Tuts book may be described as a Zoological Photographic 
Album, in which each portrait is supplied with a basal paragraph 
affording characteristic details of the animal represented. It thus 
fulfils the promise contained on its title-page: ‘“‘ For Old and 
Young. Popular, interesting, amusing.” Most of the animals 
have been photographed while in captivity, though a few have 
been portrayed with their natural surroundings, of which “ In 
the Jungle”— Elephants with a back-ground of palm trees—is 
particularly pleasing. 
The first idea on turning over these pages, is, that here is 
another excellent zoological incentive for young people, and 
certainly no more attractive volume can reach the hands of 
juveniles with a taste for natural history, as from personal 
experience we can bear witness. But the zoologist has still 
much to learn of the natural attitudes and physiognomy of many 
living creatures, which on more than one occasion artists have 
created from “ stuffed specimens,” and which photography applied 
to living animals is now beginning to reveal. It is difficult to 
appraise the suggestive and modifying influences which photo- 
graphy has brought, and will bring, to bear on many zoological 
