International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

parts of the basin of the
Zambesi, the Goid Coast,
and other remote piaces.


The sixteenth annual
exhibition of the Fhoto-
graphic Saion now being
heid at the Gaiieries of
the Royai Society of
Painters in Water-Colours
was anticipated with more
than usuai interest, owing
to the fact that an im-
portant dispiay of auto-
chrome plates by some of
the most prominent
camera men was expected.
It must be admitted, how-
ever, that such expecta-
tions have oniy been
partiaily reaiised. True,
neariy seventy piates are
being shown, but inas-
much as they represent
the work of oniy haif a
dozen men (three of whom
are responsibie for no

" TREE ROOTS tN THE BANK OF THE
ANCOBRA RtVZR" BY WILLIAM CROSLEY

Crosley has during the past
twenty years pursued his
vocation chiefiy in tropical
and sub-tropicai countries.
A passionate iover of nature,
and especialiy of nature in
her wiider, untamed aspects,
he invariabiy, when on his
traveis, jots down mementoes
of his contact with her, and
in this way his coiiection of
sketches has come to include
glimpses of the dense forests
that cover the foothills of the
Andes, and of the great rivers
that flow between the Cor-
dilleras of that incomparable
region ; while others have
been gathered from the Isth-
mus of Panama, the islands
of the English and French
West Indies, Matabeleland
and Mashonaland, including


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