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be nothing short of a crime to place it in one of the 
leading educational institutions of the country. 
But, someone will say, this is all in the future. 
What has already been accomplished? What defi- 
nitely is the status of Roosevelt African Hall? 
Well, 1am mounting animals. The elephant group, 
the white rhinoceroses, and one of the okapi are 
completed and are now on exhibition. Work on the 
gorilla group is advancing rapidly. There are already 
collected and awaiting their turn to be mounted 
materials for a black rhino group anda liongroup. I 
have estimated that it will require at least ten years 
and the expenditure of one million dollars to complete 
the work. And there is good reason to hope that the 
money needed will be provided. President Henry 
Fairfield Osborn in his Annual Report of the American 
Museum of Natural History for 1922 has called for 
a gift or a special endowment of one million dollars to 
finance and develop Roosevelt African Hall in addi- 
tion to other funds now available, stressing this as the 
most pressing need of the Museum in the year 1923. 
The income from such a special endowment will 
enable us to complete the African Hall during the 
next decade and leave a million dollars of the new 
special endowment for the development of the new 
building to house the hall. 
I am hopeful, too, that the Roosevelt Memorial 
Hall, out of which Roosevelt African Hall will open, is 
about to become a reality. The New York State 
Legislature will soon have before it a bill to appro- 
priate two and one half million dollars for a memorial 
