. St. Nicholas [serial]. SUSIE AT HEK bTUDY TABLE. igi2.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 751 THE RAREST LIVING ANIMAL This is a photograph of a part of the rarest kindof animal in the world, rarer, perhaps, than thezebra-like okapi of Central Africa. It is the head. THE HEAD OF A WHITE, SQUAKE-MOUTHED RHINOCEROS. of the gigantic, white, square-mouthed rhinocerosfrom the Lado district of the Upper Sudan. Itwas shot, in 1910, by Colonel Roosevelt, and pre-sented by him to the New York Zoological Park,where it is preserved in the Collection of Headsand Horns. It is one of the most noted troph
. St. Nicholas [serial]. SUSIE AT HEK bTUDY TABLE. igi2.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 751 THE RAREST LIVING ANIMAL This is a photograph of a part of the rarest kindof animal in the world, rarer, perhaps, than thezebra-like okapi of Central Africa. It is the head. THE HEAD OF A WHITE, SQUAKE-MOUTHED RHINOCEROS. of the gigantic, white, square-mouthed rhinocerosfrom the Lado district of the Upper Sudan. Itwas shot, in 1910, by Colonel Roosevelt, and pre-sented by him to the New York Zoological Park,where it is preserved in the Collection of Headsand Horns. It is one of the most noted trophiesof Colonel Roosevelts African hunt. AN IMPRESSIVE STUDY IN PERSPECTIVE This picture is a photograph of a tunnel for acanal near Paw Paw, West Virginia. This tun-nel is 3130 feet long, 27 feet wide, and 223/2 feetin height from the ground to the keystone in thearch. When the canal is full, the water is sevenfeet in depth. Note the white spot, a little smaller than a pin-head, apparently just above the railing. This isthe opening in the other end of the tunnel, and isan astonishing example of what the artist callsdiminution by perspective. The reader is familiar with the fact that thefarther away the object is the smaller it looks to us. As you have stood by th
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