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NATURE STUDY 
Micro-photography is a most fascinating branch, but 
one that is not likely to be undertaken by the student in an 
out-station. There are, however, special facilities for such 
work in the Government laboratories, and therefore no 
opportunity of making slides of scientific interest should be 
neglected. 
Thanks to the pioneer work of Schilling, Kearton and 
others, the time is within sight when it will be considered a 
far more meritorious thing to photograph a wild animal than 
to have killed it for the sake of the trophy, and there are definite 
signs that the photography of live game and birds is gaining 
a very wide vogue. 
A fair test of this is the number of reproductions of this 
class of work one sees in the illustrated paper or magazine, 
and these are undoubtedly increasing, and moreover im- 
proving in quality. 
A great field, too, has been opened up by the application 
of the cinematograph to this branch of w r ork, and animated 
pictures showing the processes of the metamorphoses of insects 
and similar phenomena cannot fail to bring man into closer 
touch with the realm of nature, and year by year, owing to 
improvements in apparatus, work of this character is becoming 
more and more within reach of the amateur. 
A skeleton programme of lines of research under the various 
headings is now given ; this is only intended as a kind of 
aide-memoire, and as a list of suggestions for study. It will, 
however, give some idea of the vast choice of research that 
lies before every observer. 
Mammals . 
1. Complete index of species. 
2. Facts re geographical distribution of species throughout 
the Protectorates. 
8. Information on the migration of species. 
4. Breeding places and breeding dates of various species, 
number at a birth. Small mammals, bats, nocturnal animals. 
Melanism and albinism, its range; observations on habits, 
mimicry, variation due to altitude. 
