In Wildest Africa <*> 



antelope, how under the hand of the artist the animal world 

 can be made to rise up again, as if waked anew to life. 



All our larger museums ought to exhibit the most im- 

 portant and most prominent representatives of the animal 

 kingdom modelled in attractive groups in their natural 

 surroundings. 



In America it has become the custom for private indi- 

 viduals to place at the disposal of the zoological institutions 

 extensive collections and large sums of money. With 

 this help they are able to produce artistic work, true to 

 nature, works of art, the consideration of which gives the 

 spectator an insight into the life and habits of the animal 

 world of his native land as well as of foreign countries. 

 Unfortunately this custom has hardly yet been introduced 

 amongst us. 



My native city of Frankfurt ' can claim the honour of 

 possessing, in the time-honoured Senckenberg Institute 

 (now transferred to a new home), a museum founded by 

 private effort and private interests, where one may see 

 collections formed for exhibition, that may be pointed out 

 as models ot their kind. 



The collector of such things can partake of no greater 

 pleasure than he experiences when, making a tour of the 

 museums of various places at home, he sees awakened to 

 new life: the; wild creatures he formerly observed and laid 

 low in far-off lands. So I could not deny myself the 

 pleasure of adding to this book a number of pictures ot 

 animals and groups ot animals which I secured in the 



1 During the last few ye;irs handsome groups have- also been set up in 

 the museums of other places, such as Munich, Stuttgart, and Carlsruhe. 



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