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CATALOGUE. 
NOTICE. — All objects ivith prices affixed are for sale ^ and can be delivered at 
the close of the exhibition. 
Parties desiring to make purchases, will please apply to any of the Society 
officers who may be present. 
No object will be considered sold until at least ten per cent of the price has 
been paid. 
CLASS A.— TAXIDERMY PROPER. 
Section 1.— Groups of Mammals. 
I. “ A Fight in the Tree-tops.” (Orang Utans\ Wm. T. Hornaday, - $800.00 
Loaned by Prof. H. A. Ward 
Silver specialty medal at First Exhibition. 
The animals composing this group were shot in Borneo, by the taxidermist who has since 
mounted them according to the drawings and measurements then taken from life. The group is 
intended to represent a section from the top of a Bornean forest, with animals, trees and foliage 
faithfully reproduced. 
Although the orang utan is provided with powerful canine teeth, they seem to have been 
given him chiefly for the purpose of tearing open fruit, for his fighting consists in biting the 
fingers or face of his antagonist. Many specimens have been shot which had fingers and toes 
missing, the result of such encounters as here represented. Orangs in captivity, when vicious, 
will seize a man’s hand whenever possible, and make a savage bite at the fingers. 
The orang utan is next to the gorilla in size and fierceness. Two species are recognized by 
naturalists, the specimens in this group belonging to that known as Simia Wurtnbii. 
