Practical Taxidermy Ebook

A classic long lost archive of Taxidermy

"Rediscovered, The Most Comprehensive Guide to Taxidermy ever written"

Practical Taxidermy

This is a gem of a book and includes a complete step by step set of instructions from beginning to end including chapters on the following

• Relaxing and Cleaning Skins
• Colouring Bills and Feet of Birds
• Decoying and Trapping Animals
• The Rise and Progress of Taxidermy
• Skinning, Preserving and Mounting Reptiles
• Modelling of Animals by Substitution of Clay, Composition, Plaster Casts, or Wax for Loose Stuffing
• Bare Skin of Mammals, Fishes, etc
• Necessary Tools
• Dressing and Softening Skins or Fur as Leather
• "Making-Up" from Pieces
• Making Skeletons of Animals
• Skinning and Preserving Mammals
• Egg Collecting and Preserving
• Collecting and Preserving Insects
• Skinning and Preserving Birds
• Cases, Mounts, Shields, Cabinets, Rockwork, Ferns, Grasses, Sea-Weeds etc, for "Fitting-Up."
• Preservative Soaps, Powders, etc
• Skinning, Preserving, and Mounting Fish
• Artistic Mounting, Modelled Foliage Screens, Lamps, Natural History Jewellery
• The Pictorial Arrangement of Museums