tailieunhanh - PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION TO THE AMATEUR IN COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND SETTING UP NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS OF ALL KINDS

THE First Edition of "Practical Taxidermy" having now run through the press — with, I venture to hope, some profit to students of the art, if I may judge from the many hundreds of letters I have from time to time received — the publishers have invited me to revise such parts of the work as may be expedient, and also to add many technical methods of modelling animals an artistic manner. | PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION TO THE AMATEUR IN COLLECTING PRESERVING AND SETTING UP NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS OF ALL KINDS. TO WHICH IS ADDED A CHAPTER UPON THE PICTORIAL ARRANGEMENT OF MUSEUMS. ILLUSTRATED. BY MONTAGU BROWNE . etc. Curator Town Museum Leicester. SECOND EDITION Revised and considerably Enlarged With additional Instructions in Modelling and Artistic Taxidermy. LONDON L. UPCOTT GILL BAZAAR BUILDINGS DRURY LANE . FORMERLY OF 170 STRAND . NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE. Plate I Peregrine Falcon on Flight Showing Method of Binding etc. Frontispiece see chapter V LONDON L. UPCOTT GILL LONDON AND COUNTY PRINTING WORKS BAZAAR BUILDINGS. . CONTENTS. Plate I Peregrine Falcon on Flight PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. CHAPTER I. THE RISE AND PROGRESS of TAXIDERMY. CHAPTER II. DECOYING AND TRAPPING ANIMALS. Fig. 1 Loop in wire. Fig. 2 SPRINGE OR SNARE FOR BIRDS. Fig. 3 Springe FOR SNIPE. Fig. 4 FIGURE of 4 TRAP. Fig. 5 PLAN AND METHOD OF SETTING CLAP-NET. Fig. 6 7 8 Play-stick parts Fig. 9 FLUR OR PLAY-STICK. Fig. 10 DECOY WHISTLE FOR THRUSHES etc. CHAPTER III. NECESSARY TOOLS. Fig. 11 12 13 SKINNING KNIVES. Fig. 14 SCISSORS No 1. pattern. Fig. 15 SCISSORS No 2. pattern. Fig. 16. Bell-hangers Pliers. Fig. 17 Cutting nippers. Fig. 18 French Cutting Nippers Fig. 19 Feather Pliers Fig. 20 Tow Forceps Fig. 21 Stuffing Iron CHAPTER IV. PRESERVATIVE SOAPS POWDERS ETC. Plate II Skeleton of Peregrine Falcon CHAPTER V. SKINNING AND PRESERVING BIRDS. Fig. 22 Starling Showing Position of First Incision and the Commencement of the Removal of the Skin Fig. 23 Skin of Bird Turned Ready for Severance from Body Fig. 24 Set or Drying Board for Birds Skins. Fig. 25 Starling Properly Made Into a Skin With Label Attached. CHAPTER VI. SKINNING AND PRESERVING MAMMALS. Plate III Skeleton of Otter Fig. 26 SKULL OF HORNED HEAD BLOCKED READY FOR MOUNTING. Fig. 27 Neck-board for skin of head.