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...Museum of Natural History last week was an exhibit unique among the world's museums. It was as if groups of animals, feeding, drinking, hunting, traveling or resting in Africa, had been immobilized by some mighty power and transported in their natural surroundings across the Atlantic to the Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals. Passing through the new Roosevelt Memorial visitors entered a vast room of black and grey marble, dimly illuminated from overhead by a light like dusk in the jungle. Around the sides of the hall were 15 reconstructions of animal life. On these shone a light...
Friends of the Frederick Trubee Davisons wondered last week which one had killed the elephant. Mr. Davison, the American Museum of Natural History's new president, had cabled from Africa, where he and his wife are hunting specimens for the museum's new Akeley African Hall, under the guidance of the Africa-wise Martin Elmer Johnsons: "Have organized safari and got small bull elephant; all well." In the Davison marksmanship there was no clue to identify the killer-both are excellent shots-nor in their respective degrees of bloodthirstiness. Before President Davison sailed, commissioned by his curators...
Died. Charles Livingston Bull, 57, animal painter, naturalist, taxidermist, friend and exploring colleague of the late Carl Akeley, Roy Chapman Andrews, William Beebe; as the result of a spinal injury received several years ago; in Oradell, N. J. Theodore Roosevelt once said: "Bull is the only man who can put legs on four sides of an animal and make it look natural...
...easy, has made it imperative that the Earl of Onslow, president of England's Society for Preserving the Fauna of the Empire set aside territories where hunters may not shoot. Belgium's largest reservation is Albert Park in the Congo, established through efforts of the late Carl Akeley...
...Delia J. Akeley is not a member of the American committee, but its executive secretary is Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley, F. R. G. S., second wife and widow of Carl Akeley, author of Carl Akeley's Africa, a fascinating chronicle. Chapter 19 of this volume contains a full discussion of the origin and location, flora and fauna, of the Pare National Albert...