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Rh was the first President of a Society vastly developed since then, and now one of our famous scientific institutions. To have done this is alone sufficient to enshrine Raffles in the annals of the vast zoological enterprise which has been achieved by our own countrymen.

The last years of Raffles were clouded by many worries and ill-health. The success of his career had ensured envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. He died suddenly, in his forty-fifth year, was buried in Hendon Parish Church, "but, owing to differences with the vicar, a member of a slave-owning family, no monument was erected at the time, and the actual site of the grave has not been ascertained."

This is a book that may well be studied by Colonial politicians, imperialistic or otherwise, and the naturalist will read the life-history of the founder of our Zoological Society.

book may be described as a Zoological Photographic Album, in which each portrait is supplied with a basal paragraph affording characteristic details of the animal represented. It thus fulfils the promise contained on its title-page: "For Old and Young. Popular, interesting, amusing." Most of the animals have been photographed while in captivity, though a few have been portrayed with their natural surroundings, of which "In the Jungle"—Elephants with a back-ground of palm trees—is particularly pleasing.

The first idea on turning over these pages, is, that here is another excellent zoological incentive for young people, and certainly no more attractive volume can reach the hands of juveniles with a taste for natural history, as from personal experience we can bear witness. But the zoologist has still much to learn of the natural attitudes and physiognomy of many living creatures, which on more than one occasion artists have created from "stuffed specimens," and which photography applied to living animals is now beginning to reveal. It is difficult to appraise the suggestive and modifying influences which photography has brought, and will bring, to bear on many zoological