Background
Carl Ethan Akeley was born on May 19, 1864 on a farm in Clarendon, Orleans County, New York, United States. He was the son of Daniel Webster and Julia (Glidden) Akeley.
(Articles: The Elephant in Jungle, Zoo, and Circus; Carl E...)
Articles: The Elephant in Jungle, Zoo, and Circus; Carl E. Akeley and His Work; 15 page section titled Wild Animals in Modern Art; The White Elephant; The North American Elephant; Capturing and Training Wild Elephants; Ivory: Man's Trophy From Cave Days to Present; The Zoo Nursery; Strange Beasts of Burden.
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(Lang:- English, Volume v.15 1915, Pages 15. Reprinted in ...)
Lang:- English, Volume v.15 1915, Pages 15. Reprinted in 2016 with the help of original edition published long back. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Original Title:- Hunting The African Buffalo. The American Museum Journal Volume Xv Number 4 April 1915 Hardcover, Author:- Carl E. Akeley
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(Carl Ethan Akeley (1864 – 1926) was a noted African big-g...)
Carl Ethan Akeley (1864 – 1926) was a noted African big-game hunter, taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American museums, most notably to the Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. He is considered the father of modern taxidermy. In 1909 Akeley accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on a year-long expedition in Africa funded by the Smithsonian Institution and began working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where his efforts can still be seen in the Akeley African Hall of Mammals. In this book Akeley covers his experiences of a Representative of the American Museum of Natural History in search of elephant specimens in the forests of British East Africa, where he details his hunt for elephants including: a herd of seven hundred elephants on the move, how the great animals are hunted and how they sometimes turn the tables on their hunters, as well as a near tragedy on the slopes of mount Kenia in which the author was charged and mauled by an elephant---barely escaping with his life. The stories are told by a seasoned big game hunter who Roosevelt admired for his feat of having once choked, and thus dispatched with his bare hands, a vicious leopard that had attacked. This book originally published by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1921 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
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(The diary of Carl Akeley foremost sculptor, biographer, a...)
The diary of Carl Akeley foremost sculptor, biographer, and texidermist - and the creator of the African and Roosevelt Halls in the American Museum. Much on big game hunting in Africa
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biologist conservationist inventor Photographer sculptor taxidermist
Carl Ethan Akeley was born on May 19, 1864 on a farm in Clarendon, Orleans County, New York, United States. He was the son of Daniel Webster and Julia (Glidden) Akeley.
Akeley attended school for only three years. He learned taxidermy from David Bruce in Brockport, New York, and then entered an apprenticeship in taxidermy at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York.
At about the age of thirteen Akeley saw in the Youth's Companion an advertisement of a book on taxidermy and later he was able to borrow a copy from one of the older boys of the neighborhood. The book was probably a determining factor in his life. At the age of nineteen, he entered Ward's Natural Science Establishment at Rochester, New York, where he began work at three dollars and a half a week. At that time Ward's was a famous institution for the collection and distribution of specimens for museums and for the training of museum curators. It was the headquarters of taxidermy in America.
In 1887 he obtained a position in the Milwaukee Museum and established a shop of his own in the town. In the Museum he made a group of a reindeer being driven by a Lapp in his sledge over the snow, the first habitat group he ever built. Later he mounted a group of orangutans, and then a habitat group of muskrats.
After eight years in Milwaukee, Akeley went to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. While here he made his first expedition to Africa, starting in 1896. After his return he spent a great deal of time for four years mounting the four seasonal groups of the Virginia deer, now in the Field Museum.
In 1905, he made his second expedition to Africa, when he collected the elephants for "The Fighting Bulls, " the dominant group in the Stanley Field Hall of the Field Museum of Natural History. In 1909 he started on his third expedition to Africa, this time for the American Museum of Natural History. Among other things he collected the elephants for the great group called "The Alarm. " On this trip he formulated his dream of African Hall for the American Museum. In 1921-1922 he made his fourth expedition to Africa and collected the animals for the "Gorilla Group. " At this time he made the first motion pictures ever taken of wild gorillas in their natural surroundings. On his fifth and last expedition to Africa, he died and was buried on the slopes of Mount Mikeno.
As a sculptor Akeley produced among other pieces, "The Wounded Comrade, " "Stung, " "The Charging Herd, " and "The Nandi Spearmen. " When the World War came on, he was past the age to enlist, but he gave his entire time to the government in mechanical research and investigation. In 1926, while on expedition in the Congo to observe gorillas, Akeley caught a fever and died at the age of 62. He was buried where he fell, near the top of a mountain, between two peaks measuring 11, 000 feet in elevation.
(Carl Ethan Akeley (1864 – 1926) was a noted African big-g...)
(The diary of Carl Akeley foremost sculptor, biographer, a...)
(Articles: The Elephant in Jungle, Zoo, and Circus; Carl E...)
(Lang:- English, Volume v.15 1915, Pages 15. Reprinted in ...)
Quotations: "By all the rules of the game I should have been a farmer, but for some reason or other, I was always more interested in birds and chipmunks than in crops and cattle. "
Akeley was a man of extraordinary bravery who valued his work more than his own life.
Akeley was twice married: on December 23, 1902, to Delia J. Denning of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, from whom he was divorced in March 1923; and on October 18, 1924 to Mary Lenore Jobe of New York City. He and Mary had no children.