The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-07

most everything in the animal kingdom, up to elephants, This time he hopes to bag a few of these. He proposes 10 shoot everything which passes his way of worth to the museum The list of things he expects to find includes all the big fellows-g!raffes, gnus, zehras, wart hogs, lions, antelopes, hippopota- mi, sables, leopards, hyenas and others of this set, besides all manner of snakes and flying creatures.
 It is now determined, in case the con- dition of the country permits, to estab- fish the permanent headquarters at Fort Salisbury, an English outpost, This will be the center of operations, and, leaving this barracks early in June, the professor and MT. Akeley will cut themselves from the civilized world for period of six months. They will have two wagons, especially construct ed for the work, and each drawn by twenty oxen. Kafir drivers alone can be trusted. The immediate assistants will be chosen from that race, and so many of the barbarians will be asked to join the caravan as can be tempted by a promise of food.
 Only the guides and native hunters will be provided with weapons. The re- tinue, which usually reaches about three hundred, will be expected to do the work, make the roads, and help in the search for game. Each wagon will have carrying capacity of three tons. All care will be taken not to secure com mon specimens, and duplicates will be brought home to exchange for other belts in the European and American collections. The value of this trading is promised to more than equal the cost of the expedition.
 Mashonaland, according to the plans, offers the most attractions. A man who writes from that benighted country de- clares the forests contain about all the mammals, reptiles and birds taken into the ark. Professor Elliot will try this hunting ground, and push north and west to the edge of MashukumbWo. This will be the furthermost territory since most of the men who have dared to go into this province have remained there The people have no courtesies for white men.
 MT. Akeley will make an especial
 
 the grouping in the museum may be natural There Will be an abolition of the style of stuffed animals which stand on pegs and seem to have. hides of cloth and vitals of sawdust. This means that when the expedition finds a happy group of hippopotami basking in the sun, all the snakes hanging from the boughs, all the crocodiles, the birds and lizards will be secured for an appro- priate setting.
 Professor Elliot came to Chicago a lit tie more than a year ago. His ideas in zoology are the law in this branch He was born in New York city European governments have bestowed upon him decorations for scholarship. He is the author of many books dealing with his special field. He is a member of the Royal society of Edinburgh and of the geological societies of London and France. He is coura geous, fearless and vigorous, despite his hair is as white as a mans of sixty years. MT Akeley is thirty-one years old, also New Yorker by birth, and knows the hardships of life in the woods. Professor Elliot leaves a family; MT. Akeley is a bache-
 
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 Not even the enthusiast, Professor FL liot, was more delighted than Director Skiff when the museum directory made known it's determination to send out the expedition MT. Skiff has realized, ever since he took hold of the museum, that it was likely to remain deficient in it's natural-history department, and this action comes as a welcome solution of a hard problem.
 Nothing more important for the con- pleteness of the museum could be un- dertaken," said Mir. Skiff, than the en- terprise in wbich Professor Elliot will engage. Our plan is to have him study the British museum while he is in Lon don in March, with an especial view to suggestions along this line. His under taking is hazardous, but it has been worked out in plans carefully, and We look for great results"