Flame, Electricity And the Camera: Man's Progress From the First Kindling of ...
Flame, Electricity And the Camera: Man's Progress From the First Kindling of ...
Iles, George, 1852-1942
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Deer Photographed at Night. TYPICAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIVE ANIMALS. HUNTSMEN OF A NEW TYPE 299 The simplicity and celerity of the camera give it ines- timable value to the naturalist or the physiologist. It en- ables him to follow day by day, even hour by hour, the development of a Gifts to the study oi bacillus, a mollusc, or a chick. He ufe " might, if quick and skilful with the pencil, draw a portrait or two for his note-book, but how could he find time and opportunity to sketch a hundred? In e...xploration it provides him with an instant means of depicting an insect, a reptile, or a bird in its home sur- roundings — perchance in the very act of seizing its prey. Mr. Cherry Kearton, the English naturalist-photographer, has shown us what prowess joined to skill can do in catch- ing glimpses of sea-birds perched on crags which, to wing- less man, are perilous in the extreme. Mr. William E. Carlin of New York, with equal enthusiasm, has secured portraits of the very shyest quadrupeds of the Rockies; his picture of the pika, or little chief hare, is of unexam- pled rarity (Plate XII).
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