Animals: Elephants, Apes

Small boys who wish to go rabbit-hunting must ask a farmer’s permission before venturing into his thickets. Likewise, those who wish to hunt apes and elephants in King Albert’s 500,000-acre game preserve in Belgian Congo will have to ask permission of a committee whose personnel was announced last week by King Albert’s Ambassador to the U. S., the Prince de Ligne.

Members of the committee headed by the Prince: Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert’s site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale’s ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert’s 500,000 acres must have a scientific object in view.