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Finally, in a 1924 article paying posthumous tribute to Carl Akeley published in The Scientific Monthly, the explorer Clyde Fisher wrote that he had used the Akeley camera to make a “photographic record” of Lapland, making him think of an early habitat diorama that Akeley had made in Milwaukee depicting a Lapp on a reindeer walking in the snow. Here can be seen an explicit correlation, in 1924, between an image recorded by the Akeley camera and a habitat diorama also made by Carl Akeley.^[5]