Editorial Comment for this plate:

A GROUP OF ELEPHANTS.

OUR illustration this week, if somewhat different in character from the usual picture that embellish these pages, will not be for that reason less welcome to our readers; for it shows not only excellent lens work and development, but a peculiar skill in the actual photographing. The negative by Mr. Alfred L. Simpson, a prominent member of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, and the subject is a group of Barnum’s elephants, in Central Park. They were photographed with a Morrison “D Group” lens, full opening, on a Cramer No 25 plate, with a Prosch shutter. (p. 229)