Akeley
Americannoun
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I was once inside the famous gorilla diorama, which reproduces a landscape in Central Africa where the naturalist and inventor Carl Akeley, the “father of modern taxidermy,” is buried.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
The iconic display of two fighting African elephants at Chicago’s Field Museum was created by the museum’s chief taxidermist from 1896 to 1909, Carl Akeley, the “father of modern taxidermy,” per the Field Museum website.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2016
“It’s sweet!” she said, of the herd of taxidermy elephants we encountered as we passed from the dinosaur display in the museum’s atrium into the musty dimness of the Akeley Hall of African Mammals.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 22, 2016
He’s been making boots for more than 20 years in Akeley.
From Washington Times • Mar. 26, 2016
He was Lewis Ellsworth Akeley, an implausibly cosmopolitan figure on the rural campus.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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