A Triumph of Photography
Co-operation between a great German naturalist, Rudolf Zimmermann of Dresden, and an English, Miss Barclay Smith, has produced the most beautiful series of photographs of birds, insects and flowers that ever I saw : sixty of them with a few descriptive words all put into a calendar (to which Mr. Eric Parker writes a short preface). It is published by M. C. Forrester, 9 Leinster Gardens, at 3s. 6d. The perfection of the photographs—as of the badger, the viper, the nightjar, and the tiger moth—can scarcely be exaggerated. Some are continental and some English. The Germans, who are, so to say, natural naturalists as a race, greatly excel at animal photography ; and indeed have added much to our knowledge of birds of late years, especially by their studies in migration. It is perhaps worth recording that throughout the Great War some English and German naturalists communicated regularly through the good offices of some naturalists in Holland ! The calendar, which touches a level never reached before in this category, is to be an annual. * * * *
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