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overlooked that the leopard’s bones are in process of being 
cracked by prolonged confinement, for, as Ur. W. B. Carpenter 
long ago remarked, the skeletons of the aged carnivora are often 
good for nothing, even for museum specimens, ‘ their bones 
being rickety and distorted.’ 
“ Again, it is said, in defence of the gardens, that a visit 
there is ‘ an education.’ But an education in what ? A few 
generations ago it was the custom to cage pauper lunatics where 
passers-by could see them ; perhaps that too was an education 
of a sort. We marvel now to hear of such inhumanity ; but it 
may be that a future generation will equally marvel to hear that 
the e.xhibition of caged and cramped animals could give any 
satisfaction to the children and the grown-up children to whom 
the Zoo is now a paradise. 
“Throughout his pamphlet Mr. Selous uses the weighty 
argument of the gain to ourselves in knowledge of a creature’s 
habits which would result from healthy, natural surroundings, and 
from superior accommodation. This is ignored by our opponents, 
and rightly; for how can they call it ‘sentimentalism’? ” 
The Opening of the Brandelhow Estate. — The 
triumphant achievement of the National Trust in securing this 
valuable portion of the shore of Derwentwater culminated, on 
October 16, in the estate being declared open by H.R.H. 
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. An album presented to 
Her Royal Highness was prefaced by the following sonnet, by 
the Rev. Canon Rawnsley : — 
From such a hill might angels long to lean 
And gaze once njore upon their native place ; 
So calm the waters — Walla face to face 
So calm — Blencathra, Skiddaw, so serene — 
You scarce might think Earth’s central fires had been 
The makers of this gentle mountain race ; 
While wood and golden fell with loyal grace 
Slope down to greet the daughter of a Queen. 
And here may mortals, weary of the strife 
Of inconsiderate cities, hope to come 
And learn the fair tranquillities of earth ; 
Here men may pray, here poet-thoughts have birth. 
Here all shy forest-creatures find a home. 
And wild-wood pleasaunce help the Nation’s life. 
Colour-Photography for Amateurs. — We were present 
recently, by invitation of the Lumiere Company, of 4, Blooms- 
bury Street, W.C., at their first public demonstration of their 
new and simple process of tricolour photography. The process 
is at present mainly applicable to the preparation of lantern and 
stereoscopic slides. An ordinary camera is used, three small 
coloured-glass screens, blue, green, and red, being attached in 
front of the lens. A separate negative is taken with each screen 
on a plate specially sensitive to the particular rays of light 
which pass that screen, the inventors denying the strict appli- 
cability of the terms “panchromatic” or “ isochromatic ” to 
