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A selection of hunters and collectors of rhinoceros over the past 300 years etched into rusted steel plate.

  • Harry Manners: (1917–1997). African elephant hunter. 1000 elephants shot.
  • P.T Barnum: (1810–1891). Founder of the Barnam and Bailey Circus that presented rhinos as performers in the 1870s. Also an exhibitor of people.
  • Henry Hartley: (1815–1876). African big game hunter. 1200 elephants shot. Killed by a rhinoceros.
  • Major G.H Anderson: (1878–1946). African elephant hunter and guide. 400 elephants shot.
  • Douwe van der Mout: (1705–1761). Ship’s captain and rhinoceros exhibitor. Clara, the Dutch rhinoceros, was exhibited extensively at European centres for twenty years.
  • P.G.H Powell-Cotton: (1866–1940) naturalist, explorer, hunter, collector and early conservationist. The Powell-Cotton museum contains over 16000 mammal specimens, many mounted by London taxidermy company Rowland Ward. 
  • William Cotton Oswell: (1818–1893). African and Indian big game hunter.
  • Frederick Selous: (1886–1966). Hunter, explorer, soldier and author. (A hunter’s wanderings in Africa, 1881). 23 white rhinoceros and 28 black rhinoceros killed.
  • Carl Hagenbeck: (1844–1913). Wild animal merchant and supplier to zoos. Credited as creator of modern zoo, the Tierpark Hagenbeck. Seventeen Indian rhinos and nine African rhinos sold. In the1870s, with the market in exotic animals being flooded, Hagenbeck turned to exhibiting people.
  • Jim Sutherland: (1872–1932). Soldier, African big game hunter and author (The adventures of an elephant hunter, 1912). 1500 elephants killed. 
  • Theodore Roosevelt: (1858–1919). Naturalist, African big game hunter, president and author. (African game trails, 1909). Leader of the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, 1909-1910. 11400 specimens were collected, including many rhinoceros.
  • Herbert Lang: (1879–1957). Mammologist and joint leader of the AMNH’s Lang-Chapin Congo Expedition, 1909-15. 
  • Carl Akeley: (1864–1926). Taxidermist and biologist at Chicago Field Museum and AMNH. Famed for developing the habitat diorama and the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at the AMNH. 
  • Edgar A Mearns: (1856–1916). Surgeon and field naturalist. Member of the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African expedition, 1909.
  • Arthur Vernay: (1877–1960). Antiques dealer and big game hunter in India. Collector for the AMNH for which contribution the Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall of South Asian mammals is named.
  • James Chapin: (1889–1964). Ornithologist and joint leader of the Lang-Chapin expedition to the Congo in 1909.
  • Alfred Sharpe: (1853–1935). African elephant hunter and colonial administrator. 
  • Philip Percival: (1886–1966). African safari guide. Clients included Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway and Baron Rothschild.
  • Roualeyn Gordon-Cummings: (1820–1866). African big game hunter and author: (Five years of a hunter’s life in the far interior of South Africa, 1950).
  • Richard Tjader: (1869–1916). Hunter and author (The Big Game of Africa, 1910). Led the Tjader expedition to East Africa in 1906 collecting specimens for the American Natural History Museums.
  • Sir Samuel Baker: (1821–1893). Explorer, naturalist, soldier, African and Asian big game hunter and author (The rifle and hound in Ceylon, 1853).
  • John Faunthorpe (1871–1929). Indian big game hunter. Took part in the Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition, collecting Asian wildlife specimens for the American Natural History Museums in Chicago and New York.
  • J.A. Hunter: (1887–1963). African big game hunter and author (African Hunter, 1952). 1000 rhinoceros killed. 
  • Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: (1772- 1844). Naturalist and Professor of vertebrates at the Museé National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
  • J. Alden Loring: (1871–1947). Naturalist and mammologist at the Smithsonian Institution and Bronx Zoo. A member of the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909). Collected live specimens from South Africa in 1916 for various American zoos. 
  • James Rowland Ward: (1848–1912). Taxidermist, publisher and founder of the taxidermy firm Rowland Ward Limited of Piccadilly. Also specializing in “Wardian furniture’ made from animal parts. Rowland Ward taxidermied the white rhinoceros donated to the South African Museum by Cecil John Rhodes in 1895. Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game 30th edition was published in 2020.
  • Edmund Heller (1875 –1939). Museum mammalogist and zoo director. He accompanied Carl Akeley on the Field Museum’s 1907 African expedition and was part of the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909).
  • Major C.H. Stigand: (1877–1919). African big game hunter, soldier, colonial administrator and author (Hunting the elephant in Africa, 1913 and The game of British East Africa, 1909).