No Gorillas

Carl E. Akeley, of Manhattan, known as a penetrator of Africa, a good friend of the gorilla, and an intimate of many other wild beasts, is not only a naturalist, but a sculptor. He has from time to time submitted statues for entrance in the exhibitions of the National Academy of Design. This year for the first time, his work was rejected.

The Academy declared that having space for only 400 works at its exhibition, Mr. Akeley's bronze was of insufficient artistic merit to be included. His subject was The Chrysalis and showed a hoary gorilla from which was emerging the idealized form of a man.

Mr. Akeley would not make a formal comment, but wondered audibly in the presence of a reporter: "Could it be that there was a fundamentalist on the exhibition committee?"