from Indo-China Returning to America after five weeks spent in the interior of Indo-China, Dr, James L. Clark, vice. [director of the American Museum of Natural History. and leader of the Flelschman-Clark expedition to col~ leet specimens of animals and birds, passed through Shanghai over the week-end, arriving here on. Friday and leaving for Peiping on Saturday Afternoon. He was accompanied by Mrs, Clark, Dr. Clark is known not only as a collector and taxidermist, but as a Seulptor, and it is in the latter aty, he'sald when he passed throt Shanghai in March on his way south, hat he does his most valuable work. He goes into the field, studies animals und birds in their movements, and then reproduces the subject in his tauseum in all its perfection. Con-Sequently, when skins are brought into be' stuffed, the attitudes in which "the taxidermist wishes to place the animals can be copied intter Dr, Clark's models. He was the first sculptor to go into the field of natural history, and since that time museums have readily been employ~ ug sculptors who could capture the triood of the animal to be placed on splay.
On this trip Dr. Clark, who has collected all over the world, went fute new country in Indo: China, which, although well explored, had ver yet been a ground for natural history research. Particularly did he wish to procure a specimen of the Banting a wild ox with large horns and deep red hide, He was lucky for only in getting the skin of a ull but also of a cow. Specimens were also procured of lizards, birds, bats, and snakes.
Moving to a new camp on the Lagna River specimens wore obtained of rabbits, water buffaloes, oxen, Goer, and various birds and reptiles. Torrential rains approaching cut Dr. Clark's trip short by two weeks, and was thought better to return to the coast with the specimens already obtained,
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