Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-29
COMING TO TACKLE NATURE, .FAKFPS
Richard kearon B Leading Field Naturalist for the United
States Next Month"; Will to President Roosevelt BEFORE r.
ginning Campaign Against Weird Writers Of America

| has established in one of the &nost
beautiful parts Of Surrey. He stiiTowns
little land I'm Yorkshire. enough 10
be buried in" he says, FOR somehow
one does not fancy being buried in
London. You must live with nature to
understand it, he adds
HISTORY OF NATURALIST.
But his history is best given in his
own words as he told IL to me a few
days ago.
Il was born in 1862" he said "in one
of the widest parts of Yorkshire, where
mile after mile of moors stretch away
To the horizon ON every side. was a
Keeper OF sheep until l was more than
20 years old, but when was about nine
years old | had AN accident when
climbing that made a permanent Grip
pie of me, and prevented me for ever
from enjoying the ordinary sports of
boys and yoslg men.
This accident had the profou1dest
effect on my life, and there is no coubt
that IT drove me closer to natuic |
used to lie on the moors for days to-
gether watching the birds ana bdtst
anu they soon became my only frields.
! learned TO call the rabbits OUT of tieir
holes and 10 call the old cock gruise
across the moors To me- ana l learned
almost everything else i'm the way of
4
was famous as n boy for my success N
tickling trout
WENT To LONDON,
when / was about 20 years old
things began to go badly for the York
shire farmers, and decided to Try my
luck In London. / obtained employment
with Il large publishing house. began
AT the bottom Of tho ladder, OF course,
I
and by ana by the idea OF turning
my knowledge Of nature TO account
came to me. / began To write on tho
various aspects OF nature for tho, news
papers aud magazines, and / found
that the public liked 10 hear about the
ways OF the birds aud beasts from one
who really knew them and had studied
them at first hand
The beginning of our work OF nature
photography. however, was delayed I'M
I'll 1892, ana then II was due To what
mny really be called an accident My
youngest brother Cherry had Joined me
IN London, and we were enjoying a hol-
idav together on farm near the great
city Cherry had just bought ~ little
50 camera and was In the stage when
he wanted To make snapshots of cVery-
thing In sight. ! noticed the nest ~ "a
thrush. fnll Of eggs. I'm AN accessible
plucc, and suggested thar no try his
luck with H. He got a splendid pie
ture, ana IL gave me the Idea of writing
book on British birds nests ana hav-
ing him illustrate II with photographs
We did A. and than really was the be-
ginning Of nature photography IN
Great Britain.
GREAT TRAVELLER
Since that 'irst exposure We have
travelled beuNeeIN 3l.009 and 10000
niles BY railr 2 and steamboat in
pursuit of u0tLfe photographs ana ,,o
have exposed moro than 1000 photn-
graphic plates We have Obtained
pictures OF most of the Wild birds mud
beasts OF Great Britain In their nat
ural surroundings, In some cases %
single picture has cost ms "A Wcel, Of
waiting and Watching and more than
500 In actual uutlay. ana there nre
one or two shy old birds that We
have been tracking for years Whru-
ever VIC could spare tho time. and
have not caught yet.
IVY. VIII got them set, however ana
think Il rs not boastlnB Ia say that |
we have got more and better results
than any other nature photographers |
I'm this country, Of course we origln-
ated nature photography here, and a |
man ~ made OF pooi stun n ne al- |
lows himself % be beaten at ms
own game
SOME ADVENTURES.
Some Of the adventures which have