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Okapi Crisis Comes to New York Museum Exhibit
Central Park's American Museum of Natural History to display three perfect okapi specimens captured in the Congo expedition funded by prominent donors. Lang and Chapin obtained a male female and calf, with skins and skeletons prepared for shipment, highlighting the strange forest-dwelling relative of the giraffe with red forehead and zebra like legs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Henry M. Stanley
Sir Harry Johnston
Museum of Natural History
Central Park
Seventy-seventh Street
Congo
Cleveland H. Dodge
J. (. Morgan
Wiliam JK. Vanderbilt
A. D. Fullard
Robert W. Goelet
William Rockefeller
John B. Trevor
Charles. Lanier
Central
Africa
Messrs
Lang and
Chapin
Stanley
Sir Henry Johnston
London Zoological Society
Harry Johnston
London
Lang
New York Natural History Museum
Columbia University
Greece
Asia Minor