So must the artistic taxidermist have before him a vision of the bird he wishes to represent, with the combined mass of feathers now in hand.
These beautiful sights awake the poet's soul within me, and on one occasion I wrote a little ode or apostrophe to the sunset, which was as sweet a little thing as I ever saw in the English language, but the taxidermistspoiled it.
The taxidermist who is doing the job lives down on the Rue de la Crazy Woman's Fork.
And the note about the New Zealand bird certainly appeared in a morning paper of unblemished reputation, for the Taxidermist keeps a copy and has shown it to me.
They were told me by the taxidermist in a mood of elation.
A Correct Letter from a Debutante to a Taxidermist Thanking Him for Having Stuffed Her Pet Alice Mr. Lloyd Epps, Taxidermist, New York City.
DEAR SIR: It is with sincere pleasure that I take my pen in hand to compliment you upon the successful manner in which you have rendered your services as taxidermist upon my late owl Alice.
An Incorrect Letter from a Debutante to a Taxidermist Thanking Him for Having Stuffed Her Pet Alice DEAR MR.
New York City, who is writing to a taxidermist thanking him for his neat work in having recently stuffed her deceased pet Alice.
Mr. Akeley undoubtedly is the foremost taxidermist of the world, and his work is famous wherever African animal life has been studied.
During the first three months of the year 1886 it was ascertained by the writer, then chief taxidermist of the National Museum, that the extermination of the American bison had made most alarming progress.
This case and the space about it, at the south end of the south hall, has been inclosed by high screens for many days while the taxidermist and his assistants have been at work.
It is impossible for any taxidermist to stuff a buffalo-skin with loose materials and produce a specimen which fitly represents the species.
There are a number of so-called systems for winding birds but the same taxidermist seldom winds two alike as the needs of the case are sure to differ.
There are some individuals which it is impossible for the taxidermist to prepare the skins of, so as to retain a natural appearance for any length of time.
The late lamented bison furnished the robe par excellence, few of which pass through the hands of the taxidermist nowadays.
In conclusion I would say if you are a sportsman try the preliminary or entire preservation of some of your trophies, at least get them to the taxidermist in as good order as you can.
I speak of shooting, as probably three-fourths of the objects mounted by the average taxidermist have been killed with fire arms.
There are numbers of reliable dealers in tools and supplies for the taxidermist and a perusal of their catalogs will be helpful, among the number being James P.
The saying, "It never rains but it pours," applies to the taxidermist and a sudden rush of subjects may often be saved by using the foregoing preparation.
While the preparation of skeletons for the cabinet is sometimes undertaken by the general taxidermist it is more often the work of a trained osteologist.
Fewest dry scientific skins are made up from the quadrupeds, but in case the matter of transportation prevents wet preservation or they are wanted dry the all around taxidermist must practice at making them up also.
White furs especially that have become soiled and matted from use need cleaning frequently and are brought to the furrier or taxidermist for that purpose.
In order to do any satisfactory work on quadrupeds the taxidermist makes use of a bath or pickle of some sort for keeping skins in a wet state.
Most of the varieties of medium and large game fishes can be mounted by the average taxidermist and it is with these we are mostly concerned.
And one will concede that a taxidermist should receive at least as much as a skilled mechanic and the experts both in commercial and museum work are sometimes (not always) highly paid.
The taxidermist from Tangier, the longish packing-cases, the square boxes--Ralph Warriner and old man Fournier were running guns and ammunition into Morocco!
The old man Fournier, for instance; it seemed sort of queer that a taxidermist of Tangier should come all the way to Scilly for a month's holiday.
Then I sought out the old naturalist and taxidermist to whom I had a card from the squire.
In 1819 he was offered the position oftaxidermist in the museum at Cincinnati, and soon moved there with his family.
Then he conceived the happy thought of setting up the body of the dead bird by the aid of wires, very much as a taxidermist mounts them.
Mr. Rowland Ward's Indian Jungle, with its scenes depicting, with the faithfulness of the skilled taxidermist and naturalist, the wild animal life of India.
If you have neither arsenic nor arsenical soap, and yet wish to save a skin so it can be sent to a taxidermist in good condition, prepare it with fine salt alone.
Probably no handsomer fire-screens were ever produced by a taxidermist than those of Mr. Thomas W.
Mr. Webster's long professional experience and reputation as an expert taxidermist is well known and established.
A dishonest taxidermist may slight the interior work of a specimen and have it escape detection for six months, or even a year, but time soon tells the story.
The eye of a successful taxidermist must be educated just as thoroughly as the hand of a pianist.
Observe particularly, however, that skins prepared thus are utterly worthless to the taxidermist and the scientific museum.
When a taxidermist has a fresh skin, or one which has been but recently prepared dry, it is very seldom that any skin-cutting is necessary.
Mr. Hornaday is chief taxidermistin the United States National Museum.
Where is thetaxidermist worthy of the name who will admit that his resources are limited, or that he is not able and ready to "set up" any animal that may be brought to him, no matter how big or how bad it is.
Ram him, cram him "full to the very jaws," like the famous rattlesnake skin that taxidermist Miles Standish stuffed "with powder and bullets.
To a bird taxidermist this is the most valuable book ever published in a single volume, because of its wealth of excellent illustrations.
Spicer, a taxidermist of Birmingham, whose great specialty is the artistic preparation of kittens for sale, will not purchase black ones, as he finds the superstition against black cats interferes with their sale.
An English taxidermist who exports thousands of mounted kittens each year to the United States and other countries, finds the prejudice against black cats still so great that he will not purchase kittens of this obnoxious color.
All this could easily be avoided by the taxidermist first skinning the beak and lips to their farthest extent, and then filling them with clay or composition, and afterwards waxing and colouring the parts in question.
If thetaxidermist is in a fair way of business, he will find a wooden tank, about 36 in.
My taxidermist being very busy at the time, I decided to give Moeller a severe test and pickle them.
This being purely a matter of individual taste, the taxidermist may easily make as many patterns as he chooses by doubling a piece of brown or stiff paper and cutting his shapes out therefrom.
Its service to the taxidermist is limited to the reproduction of certain bones and some few natural objects, such as fungi, etc.
Writing about pastes reminds me that no taxidermist should be without a pot of flour paste, which is far better and more cleanly than gum or glue for sticking in loose feathers, etc.
To excel in mounting animals the arts of drawing and modelling from living examples must be cultivated; the amateur taxidermist thus gains the requisite knowledge to help him in his art.
THE taxidermist will, in the course of his avocation, require to know something of various insects, their methods of capture, and how to preserve and utilise them in his profession.
I will here indicate what I take to be the basis upon which a competent taxidermistmust proceed to become a zoological artist.
In a cabinet he found them--pots of paint that the old taxidermist had used to place the war-paint in its wide bands across the cold faces of dead warriors.
So up went the old sign on a fresh board: 'Orloff Ruricson, Taxidermist and Aviarian Professor.
At twenty, my term was out, and I began to think of setting up as a taxidermist on my own hook.
The Taxidermist I One day a hummingbird got caught in a cobweb in our greenhouse.
This is how I came to know Manouvrier, the Taxidermist in St. Peter Street.
The taxidermist shook his head, good-naturedly, but when his wife laughed he turned upon her.
Richard," said she, "it will be time enough to be troubled about your taxidermist when he's given you cause.
Every process of the difficult art of the taxidermist is here made plain with an ease that speaks eloquently of the author's skill in his field.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taxidermist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
