St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-03

From an article in the New York Sun
we take the following facts concerning
the career Of this noted man:
A remarkable fact about DR.. Holubs
work is that he began it an unknown
and almost pennilesS man. that he has
pursued it for the most part with money
he has earned himself on the lecture
platform, and that he has always
Refused to Accept Dollar
for the splendid material which he has
freely beloved upon the museums.
Every month for over four years he
needed money to carry on the work of
preparing and mounting the specimens
he collected during his second journey.
He accepted engagements to lecture in
all parts Of Austria and Hungary, and
during the years that he was preparing
his collections he earned over 500, 900 on
the lecture platform. every cent of
which. except what was actually needed
for the support of himself aud his wife,
was absorbed in preparing his colec-
tons and making his remarkable ethno-
logical models.
1t was DR.. Holub's browning ambition
to give the whole of his collections to
his country as an African museum, pros
vided that satisfactory arrangements
were made to exhibit them permanently
under excellent conditions. He was not
able, however, to secure from the GOV
eminent adequate space for their per-
manent exhibition.
Being unable to carry out his plan to
keep his collections together in a
national museum, Dr.. Holub decided to
give them to public institutions. On
The day before he LETT Austria for this
country he presented to the European
museums his one hundredth gift. OF
these splendid contributions to science
eighty have been distributed among the
museums and higher schools of Austria
Hungary and twenty among the muse
ums of other European states.
The Largest Gifts
are now permanently deposited in the
Imperial Museum Of Vienna and in the
museums OF Prague and Budapest. Any
one travelling in Europe may find many
phases of the natural history of South
Africa, as far north as IA deg. 40 min
S. lat. finely represented by Dr.. Holub'S
gifts 10 the museums at Lisbon, Madrid,
Rome, Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest, ST.
Petersburg. Stockholm, Copenhagen. Lei
den, Brussels, Munich. Stuttgart. Carts
ruhe, the University OF Jena, and other in
situations. About 0Ge-fOurth of the cols
D
He intends to retain in his possession
for the present his life-like models Of
the natives of fourteen different tribes
and $50 specimens of his collection of
the carvings that are found on the
DaSaltS and other rocks. and were made
by the ancestors of the present Bush
men, or South African group or dWarfS.
The collection also includes the paint
ings made by these Bushmen on the
walls of the caves they inhabited. The
carvings were executed with very sim
pie stone implements.
These are very remarkable products.
They were made from photographs,
sketches and the most careful measure
| ments. They are represented as en-
gaging IN characteristic occupations.
and at Dr.. Holub's eXpositions in Wen
Ia and Prague they were shown among
their huts and villages, which were re-
produced from the most minute and eX-
act descriptions and measurements.
| Looking at the photographs Of these
| groups 1t is ditficultto realize that they
were not caught by the camera FROM
scenes or actual African life.
Story OF EIOiub's Work.
DR.. .Hoiub went to South Africa in
| 1872 TO devote himself to exploration
| with scarcely any resources except
| thorough training III medicine and nat
ural history. AS a physician he at once
obtained a lucrative practice among the
diamond dIggers of Kimberley. and,
saving every dollar he could, he was
ready III year 10 take the field with a
modest equipment. 1t was six years
| later before he returned home with his
first splendid selections and a great
store of information about UNEMPLOYED
| Matabeleland and the Marutze. Mabunde
kingdom on the Upper Lambesi, all of
| which filled his "Seven Years in South
| Africa" with novel and valuable facts
| He was 10 longer unknown, and the
| young man who could obtain no money
| at home 10 promote his first years OF
African service set out again in 1888