258 IN BRIGHTEST AFRICA 
mals and a correct representation of the flora. In 
the foreground on a sandbar in the river will be a 
group of hippos; across the stream and merging into 
the painted background, a group of impalla come 
down to water; in the trees and on the sandbars of 
the farther bank two species of monkeyscommon to the 
region; a crocodile and turtles basking in the sun near 
the hippos, and a few characteristic birds in the trees, 
Another of these large corner groups will be a 
scene of the plains, a rock kopje with characteristic 
animals such as the klipspringer, hyrax, Chanler’s 
reedbuck, and baboons on the rocks, the background 
leading off across the plain showing a herd of plains 
animals—and the adjoining group continuing the 
story by showing more of the species of the plains. 
The third of the large corner groups will represent 
a Congo forest scene with the okapi and chimpanzee 
perhaps, and such animals as may be associated legiti- 
mately with the okapi. The fourth group will be a 
desert scene, a water hole with a giraffe drinking 
and other animals standing by, awaiting their turn. 
_ In these four corner groups we can present the 
four important physical features of African game 
country, and they can be supplemented, of course, 
by the scenes in the thirty-six other groups. The 
large groups, however, give opportunity for particu- 
larly striking scenic effects. 
Lack of care in museum exhibition has come about 
in part at least because of the lack of permanence in 
the specimens exhibited. Now that we have reached 
a point in the development of taxidermy technique 
