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instruct him; if he does not care to know 

 what an animal is, or what an object is 

 used for, he will not read the label, be 

 it never so carefully written. The Arab 

 <?ourier group was prepared under the 

 supervision of Jules Verreaux, the French 

 ornithologist and African traveler, for 

 the Paris Exposition of 1867, where it 

 was awarded a gold medal. This group 

 may have suggested the combat between 

 a lion and tiger, displayed in the Crystal 

 Palace, or that, as well as a similar group 



It is worth noting here that the Maison 

 Verreaux suggested to Professor Henry 

 A. Ward the possibility of establishing a 

 similar institution in the United States; 

 whence the well-known Ward's Natural 

 Science Establishment at Rochester, 

 New York. And we cannot help feeling 

 that Ward's Establishment had much to 

 do with the history of animal groups. 

 Hither came and hence departed many a 

 man who directly or indirectly did much 

 to advance the art of taxidermv and 



Group of the black-throated loon in the British Museum, one of the nesting groups of British birds 



formerly in the Calcutta Museum, may 

 have originated independently. The 

 last mentioned group illustrates the 

 importance and effect of something that 

 -attracts attention: when the Dalai 

 Lama visited the Calcutta Museum, it 

 soon became apparent that he was look- 

 ing for some particular object, and it 

 later developed that this was the fighting 

 lion and tiger whose fame had traveled 

 • into far distant Tibet. 



make possible the existing order of 

 things. Named according to the time 

 of their coming, Hornaday, Webster, 

 Wood, Critchley, Turner, Denslow, and 

 Akeley were all graduates of the old 

 Establishment. Perhaps some of them 

 do not like to be considered as taxider- 

 mists, but we can hardly call my friend 

 Wood, whose birds lack nothing save 

 voice and movement to make them 

 seem alive, an animal sculptor, and we 



