Wild Life

Abstract

LAST summer the members of the Zoological Photographic Club held an exhibition at the offices of the Zoological Society, and the object of this periodical is to continue and extend the work of that exhibition. The first number appeared in January and promised well. Mr. R. B. Lodge wrote of eagles and vultures in Albania, and Mr. Farren, who showed some wonderfully beautiful photographs, described the life of the egrets in the valley of the Guadalquivir, where Mr. Abel Chapman and Mr. Buck have done so much to preserve this species. Mr. Francis Ward had some interesting notes and plates of fishes, living birds, and otters: the photographs were taken in his pond on a method of his own invention. The editor's paper on the sand-wasp (Odynerus spinipes) was welcome as breaking new ground in photography, for of photographs of birds it is possible to get weary, unless they have something new to tell us; and that is by no means always the case, in spite of the editor's extravagant claim (p. 8) that our knowledge of British birds has been doubled in the last decade by photography alone.

Wild Life.

An Illustrated Monthly. Vol. i., Nos. 15. Edited by Douglas English. (London: Wild Life Publishing Co., 1913.)