Arts: Birds

Frank Bond of Wyoming, chief clerk of the General Land Office in Washington, invented a means of reproducing the sheen on the wings of birds. Said he: .

" My invention relates to a process reproducing in pictures the natural luster or sheen of the feathers of birds or other objects, so that such pictures not only will be faithful reproductions of the natural colorings of the birds but also of the luster of the plumage."

Mr. Bond's private exhibitions of brilliantly feathered bird pictures have attracted the attention of many artists. The difficult tracts,...

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