WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



and education of young and old. Now it can be done; 

 in a few years it may be too late. 



We are still comparatively ill - acquainted with the 

 fauna of colonial Germany. It has been my privilege 

 to contribute to the museums specimens hitherto en- 

 tirely unknown. All I have achieved in collecting skins, 

 skulls, skeletons, and the like, I have accomplished 

 without outside assistance, at my own financial sacrifice, 

 and mainly through my personal efforts. I have been 

 fully repaid by the fact that men, prominent as expo- 

 nents of zoology, have given me their unstinted praise, 

 and that I find in many a German museum my animal 

 kingdom of tropical Africa preserved by the hand of 

 skilled taxidermists, from the dwarf antelope to the 

 giraffe, the rhinoceros, and the elephant. 



