This club, a professional society promoting scientific exploration and field study, was founded in 1905. It is now headquartered in a six-story mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It houses trophies and artifacts collected during more than a century of explorations by its members, some of whom were first to the North Pole, South Pole, the summit of Mt. Everest and even first to the moon. Its trophy room stands at the top of building. A painting of an Arctic explorer dominates the scene, flanked by a pair of South African Sable antelopes. Their curving horns mirror the reversed curves of the huge elephant tusks below them, just as the stuffed cheetah in the middle of the image repeats the legs of the explorer in the painting..