With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



right lines. Studies of this kind can only be pursued 

 in large museums, where it is possible to note the special 

 characteristics of specimens brought together trom distant 

 countries and to compare large numbers ot them from 

 different regions with each other. Only in this way is 

 it possible to determine over what area each species is 

 distributed, what are its habits ot life, and of what 

 importance it is likely to be to man. Only in this way, 

 too, is it possible to make out a systematic })lan for the 

 study of the fauna of various sections of the earth, with 

 a view to filling up the gaps in our information. 



Schillings has placed his collection at the disposal 

 of zoological experts in the most generous manner, and 

 has made provision for the exhibition of most of his 

 specimens in our large museums — chiefly the Berlin 

 Museum. lUit the museums of Stuttgart, Munich, X'ienna, 

 Karlsruhe, and other cities have also been enriched by 

 these very valuable gifts of specimens of the great 

 African mammals. 



One can form no notion, from seeing a stuffed giraffe 

 or rhinoceros in a museum, of the immense difficulties 

 involved in the securing and preparing of such a specimen. 

 When the animal has been shot and its skin carefully 

 prepared — all the fat removed from it and every pre- 

 caution taken against flaws, the skull and bones also 

 having been cleaned separately — the collector has still to 

 take immense pains about the transport to Europe. The 

 weighty burden has to be carried on mens' shoulders to 

 the coast, along dangerous tracks, often through marshes 

 and almost pathless thickets, and across streams and rivers. 



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