Show WILD ANIMALS NOW SEEK HIDING PLACES WASHINGTON W March 3 i. Final preparations preparations pre pre- are L being made at the Iho Smithsonian Smithsonian Smith Smith- Institution for tor the tho scientific expedition expedition to Africa to ho he headed by hy Theodore Roosevelt ROOM The Tho work worl of preparing and packing the collecting apparatus Is well advanced ad having h b been en carefully superintended superintended tended b by MaJ Edgar A. A Mearns who Is Isto Isto Isto to manage the expedition for the tho Smithsonian Smithsonian Smith Smith- institution in J. J Alden Loring and Edmund Holler HoUer two other naturalists of the exp expedition have havo been In Washington several lIe weeks as assisting assisting ns- ns Major Mearns with the final pre pre- Mr Roosevelt will go over the plans pl thoroughly after he reaches Oyster Bay and when the party part lands from the steamer Admiral at ot Mombassa the members members members mem mem- bers will be bo ready to lo strike out for the work worl before them with a clear dear Idea of I what will bo be done |