-* Collection of Hast .African Mammals 



The ravages of insects and the damp atmosphere have 

 to be fought against. There are long weeks of anxiety 

 before the goal is reached. 



All this trouble, to say nothing of the considerable 

 expense, is involved in the bringing home in good con- 

 dition of a single such specimen; but Schillings has brought 

 home quite a number of giraffes, buffaloes, rhinoceroses, 



HOLLOW TRUNK OK A GIGANTIC FIG-TREE 



and elephants, a great number of large antelopes, and 

 hundreds of hides and skins and skeletons of every descrip- 

 tion, all of them in such good condition that they are 

 suitable tor exhibition in museums. 



In this way he has made it possible to determine the 

 fact that these great Ungulata differ essentially in various 

 particulars from those to be found in other parts of Africa, 

 and that all these families are divided into species confined 



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