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NATURE NOTES 
The book is very well got up, and the claim that there is no scientific work, 
published at a price remotely approaching that for which it is sold, that has so 
excellent a supply of illustrations, would be hard to upset. It amounts to this, 
that we can buy what is practically a text book of Zoology, so far as it touches 
on man and his relations, near and distant, and containing over four hundred 
illustrations, for 2s. This price ensures that the object is fulfilled of putting 
Haeckel’s work within the reach of all, but one cannot always get a horse to 
drink even if one brings the water to him. 
Camp Fires in the Canadian Rockies. By William T. Hornaday. 6i inches x 
9j inches; 353 pages, 70 illustrations, chiefly by John M. Phillips, and 
2 maps. T. Werner Laurie. Price 16s. net. 
The Director of the New York Zoological Park has written, and the Pennsyl- 
vanian State Game Commissioner has illustrated, the account of a holiday 
expedition to the haunts of the Rocky Mountain goats and grizzly bears. 
Apart from the charm of the narrative and the striking interest of the photo- 
graphs, there is a delight in feeling that the actors in the drama are real 
sportsmen, who would fain see the small number of big game that the license 
laws allow a hunter to kill still further reduced, and would have the shooting 
of females prohibited. What is more, although they were allowed to kill 
five goats, they contented themselves with three, the number that they had 
previously suggested as being the proper one. They shot no females except in 
the case of grizzly bears ; they left behind no wounded animals ; they made 
thorough use of everything they killed, and, with the exception of one deer, all 
the animals shot were preserved for important museums. 
Many different creatures are described in the volume, and many interesting 
details are given with regard to them, though the Rocky Mountain goats and 
the catching of them come in for a large share of attention. Dr. Hornaday 
believes that the only way to ensure the survival of American Mountain sheep 
and goats on the Atlantic coast is to have young animals reared to maturity 
in their home country. He instances the specimen of the Rocky Mountain 
goat which is now in our own Zoological Gardens at Regent’s Park. It was 
captured in 1898 in the Fort Steele district of British Columbia, and was taken 
to London by its owner in 1901. Dr. Hornaday also gives some account of 
the way in which animals travel to the New York Zoological Park, and 
describes the taking back with him of five young Rocky Mountain goats, which 
formed the first flock ever seen in a Zoological collection. 
A well-known hunting dog named Kaiser accompanied the party on the 
expedition described in the book, and contributed much towards its success. 
While the last proofs of “ Camp Fires” were being read, the unwelcome news 
that Kaiser had accidentally been killed by a reaping machine reached the 
author, who added, in memorium, a pnge of appreciation of a dog who in 
“ the annals of big game hunting and photography had fairly earned a place.” 
Received : The Animals ’ Friend ; The Animal World; Bird Lore : Humani- 
tarian ; Knowledge; The Naturalist ; The Irish Naturalist ; The Victoria 
Naturalist ; The Plant World; The University of Colorado Studies; and 
The Estates Magazine for November. 
SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES. 
[Note. — All Announcements with regard to Future Meetings of 
the Central Society or Branches will be found together at the 
end of these Notices.] 
New Members. — Central Society. — The following members have been 
elected : J. E. Turner, Esq. ; The Rev. Canon Morley Stevenson, M.A. ; PI. V. 
Webb, Esq. 
Birmingham Branch. — Ernest S. Rye, Esq. 
Hampstead Branch. — Mrs. Walter Bentley. 
