Word: taxidermist
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...late Carl Akeley, sculptor, taxidermist, proved to the Johnsons that lions that have never been hunted by man will not attack him. He showed them a valley inhabited by a dozen or more such lions, enormous cats, playing and sleeping. THEY WENT IN AMONG THE LIONS, spent two whole days photographing them. (The movies are now being shown on Broadway). Had only one lion attacked them, they could not have escaped death in the general battle which would have ensued. The native porters, watching from a nearby hill became convinced that their masters had a godlike, supernatural power. All this...
That was a very brave story for Dr. Hornaday to revive and it gave narrative confidence to a plain & ordinary Texan, one George Henkel, Dallas taxidermist. Said he without winking, thinking or drinking...
...must to all men, Death came to Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, sculptor, hunter, taxidermist, engineer. It found him where he had often been before, in the heart of Africa. Weakened by fever and a nervous breakdown some months ago, he died last week of hemorrhage attendant upon pneumonia at Kabele on Mt. Mikeno, Uganda, Belgian Congo...
...thought of traveling 10,000 mi., of entering jungles never visited by white men. Seeing her off at the dock, her husband also denied uneasiness: "She is a splendid shot, you know." To guide and protect her there were seven scientists under the command of famed George K. Cherrie, taxidermist and hunter of Roosevelt expeditions to the River of Doubt, Africa, Turkestan. To afford her feminine company and comfort there was Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, wife of Naturalist Seton, who exhibited a rifle "that already has to its credit a 1,000-lb. moose, an 800-lb. bear, an antelope...
...works of Naturalist John J. Audubon and determined thenceforth to devote himself, not to natural history in a scientist's closet, but to discovering and teaching popularly the wonders of the animal kingdom. He studied zoology and the keeping of museums in Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds of the western plains. He got himself commissioned to collect for mounting the family group still to be seen...