قراءة كتاب 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. With additional instructions in modelling

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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. With additional instructions in modelling

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Browne Montagu

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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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. *

CHAPTER VII. MODELLING OF ANIMALS BY SUBSTITUTION OF CLAY, COMPOSITION, PLASTER CASTS, OR WAX FOR LOOSE STUFFING. *

Fig. 28 — Stag's head in plaster from clay model. *

Fig. 29 — Steel "undercutting" tool. *

Fig. 30 — Steel "relieving" tool. *

Fig. 31 — Back view of model with neck block inserted. *

Fig. 32 — False body of wood, with neck and tail wires attached. *

Fig. 33 — Section of half-inch board to represent ribs *

Plate IV. Lion mounted from the "Flat". *

CHAPTER VIII. SKINNING, PRESERVING, AND MOUNTING FISH, AND CASTING FISHES IN PLASTER, etc.. *

Fig. 34 — Diagram of pike, showing skin removed on one side from lower half of body. *

CHAPTER IX. SKINNING, PRESERVING, AND MOUNTING REPTILES. *

CHAPTER X. DRESSING AND SOFTENING SKINS OR FURS AS LEATHER. *

Fig. 35 — Scraper with which to dress skins. *

CHAPTER XI RELAXING AND CLEANING SKINS — "MAKING-UP" FROM PIECES. *

CHAPTER XII Colouring Bills And Feet Of Birds, Bare Skin Of Mammals, Fishes, Etc. — Restoring Shrunken Parts By A Wax Process — Drying And Colouring Ferns Grasses, Seaweeds, Etc. — "Piece Moulds," And Modelling Fruit In Plaster — Preserving Spiders — Making Skeletons Of Animals, Skeleton Leaves Etc. — Polishing Horns, Shells, Etc. — Egg Collecting And Preserving — Additional Formulae, Etc. *

Fig. 36 — Blow-pipe for inflating larvae *

Fig. 37 — Climbing iron *

CHAPTER XIII. CASES, MOUNTS, SHIELDS, EGG CABINETS, ROCKWORK, FERNS, GRASSES, SEA-WEEDS, ETC., FOR "FITTING UP." *

Fig. 38 — Plan of "canted-corner" case. *

Fig. 39 — Section of "uprights" or pillars of square case. *

Fig. 40 — Mitre block. *

CHAPTER XIV. GENERAL REMARKS ON ARTISTIC "MOUNTING," MODELLED FOLIAGE, SCREENS, LAMPS, NATURAL HISTORY JEWELLERY, ETC. *

CHAPTER XV. COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS. *

Fig. 41 — Plan of "ring" net. *

Fig. 42 — "Ring "-net complete. *

Fig. 43 — The "Hill sliding net," open. *

Fig. 44 — The "Hill sliding net," closed.

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