Word: toseeing
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...exhibits. The animals were shot by a Berkeley mining engineer and big-game hunter named Leslie Simson. He found a home for the carcasses at the academy, and when he died in 1940 left $100,000 to insure their proper display. Academy Director of Exhibits Cecil Tose, who did the taxidermy himself, directed the project. Prop Artist Velma Harris cut and painted the paper vegetation-and, incidentally, put to good use some African bamboo stalks that had been in the storeroom for 21 years. Two painstaking realists, Belmore Brown and Toshio Asaeda, did the background landscapes...
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