Carl Akeley, zoologist and hunter (the - order is deliberate) was
firmly convinced that the game of Africa is doomed to extinction within the next few years, thanks to economic development and to the modern rifle- wedded in an unholy alliance with motor cars. He was never a killer'of gaine for the sake of killing, as are so many pseude-zoologists and collectors, for he was primarily a -conserver. His dominant interest lay in pressing for adequate game sanctuaries on the one hand, and on the other in reproducing for posterity in the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural -History groups of animals in their natural environment as faithfully represented as infinite care, research and personal risk could ensure. It was while he was on one of his many journeys of research to Africa that he died, and it is of this last journey that his wife, Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley, gives an account in Carl Akeley's Africa (Gollanez, 18s.). The volume is a fitting memorial to her husband : she tells us of his work, of his unsparing labours in procuring and preparing his specimens ; and of the natural beauties of the country she writes with a vivid and infectious enthusiasm. The photographs are both numerous and of first-rate quality.
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