In Wildest Africa -^ 



antelope, how under the hand ot 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 proniinent representatives of the animal 

 kingdom modelled in attractive groups in their natural 

 surroundings. 



In America it has beconie 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 j)roduce 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. 



]\Iy 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 eftbrt 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 part. ike ot no greater 

 pleasure than he experiences when, making a tour of the 

 museums ot various places at home, he sees awakened to 

 new lite the wild creatures he formerly observed and laid 

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

 pleasure of adding to this book a number ot pictures ot 

 animals and groups of animals which I secured in the 



' During tlie last few years liaiidsome groups liavc also been set up in 

 tlie museums of otlier places, such as Munich, Stuttgart, and Carlsruhe. 



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