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PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY

by Montague Browne

Published by Read Country Books. 2005

Fine condition. Appears to be a physical print on demand book (printed by Lightning Source), originally published in 1884. Brown glazed pictorial boards. 354 pages. B/w illustrations.

ISBN: 1905124325
Stock no. 1330185

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Contents

  • Chapter I. The Rise and Progress of Taxidermy
  • Chapter II. Decoying and Trapping Animals
  • Chapter III. Necessary Tools
  • Chapter IV. Preservative Soaps, Powders, ETC.
  • Chapter V. Skinning and Preserving Birds
  • Chapter VI. Skinning and Preserving Mammals
  • Chapter VII. Modelling of animals by Substitution of Clay, Composition, Plaster Casts, or Wax for Loose Stuffing
  • Chapter VIII. Skinning, Preserving, and Mounting Fish, and Casting Fishes, in Plaster, ETC.
  • Chapter IX. Skinning, Preserving, and Mounting Reptiles
  • Chapter X. Dressing and Softening Skins or Furs as Leather
  • Chapter XI. Relaxing and Cleaning Skins - "Making-Up" From Pieces
  • Chapter XII. Colouring Bills and Feet of Birds, Bare Skin of Mammals, Fishes, ETC
  • Chapter XIII. Cases, Mounts, Shields, Egg Cabinets, Rockwork, Ferns, Grasses, Sea-Weeds, ETC, For "Fitting -up"
  • Chapter XIV. General Remarks on Artistic "Mounting," Modelled Foliage Screens Lamps, Natural History Jewellery, ETC.
  • Chapter XV. Collecting and Preserving Insects
  • Chapter XVI. On Natural History Museums, with Special Reference to a New System of Pictorial Arrangement of Vertebrates

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