Some taxidermists have a large pane of glass set flush in a table top for this purpose.
Specimens are often sent to the taxidermists in apparent good order and when received are entirely ruined by fly maggots; the eggs being deposited before packing and shipping.
It is to be regretted that the once flourishing Society of American Taxidermists has not been perpetuated, numbering, as it did, among its membership the best artists in their line in this country.
Some taxidermists produce rock work of an obscure geological period by covering screen wire forms with a mixture of flour, baking powder and plaster of paris and water.
Inasmuch as they are of value only for associations most taxidermists require a small advance payment on pet animals before commencing work; other work is usually C.
The seasonal groups of Spring, Autumn, Summer and Winter have been produced by most bird taxidermists at some time.
Some taxidermists prefer to use in place of the paste some form of Arsenical Soap.
His nose showed none of the Jewish characteristics which taxidermists are fond of giving their mounted moose heads.
Previous to 1880 its use among the taxidermists of my acquaintance was unknown, and when its value was discovered and put to general use by the writer, in the year mentioned, many of my rivals predicted all manner of evil from it.
The universal custom with taxidermistsin such case is to obey the (paraphrased) scriptural injunction--if a feather offend thee, pluck it out.
What a deal of trouble the bird taxidermists of my acquaintance might have saved themselves during the last ten years had they known of, or devised, this simple but perfect contrivance.
If I have never done any other good thing in my life, I believe I have at least taught some of our best American taxidermists the usefulness and value of plaster casts taken from the flesh.
It is a common fault with taxidermists to open the jaws of such an animal too widely, so that the effect striven for is lost, and the animal seems to be yawning prodigiously, instead of snarling.
The attention of American taxidermists is called to the fact that for eight years past our glass eyes have been used exclusively by Mr. Hornaday in all the animals mounted by him and under his direction in the U.
The productions of the Society of American Taxidermists are now to be seen in thousands of the finest homes in the United States, and in art galleries, both public and private.
In the collection in the National Museum made by the Society of American Taxidermists there is a series of six specimens, representing five different methods, mostly bad.
There are in this country probably two score oftaxidermists who live by heads alone; and many hunters who once lived by buffalo robes and beaver pelts now make a business of hunting for heads to sell.
One of the artistic triumphs of the New York exhibition of the Society of American Taxidermistswas Mr. F.
Some taxidermists soften dry bird skins by burying them in wet sand after the legs and wings have been relaxed in the way already described.
In the year 1880, when the Society of American Taxidermists was organized in Rochester, N.
Some few years ago "benzine collas" was introduced, and the taxidermists were not long in finding out its valuable properties for feather cleaning.
For this purpose the older taxidermists used a wash or powder, composed of equal parts of alum and nitre (saltpetre).
Many taxidermists cut the whole of this away, and replace it with plaster; but if the fish's mouth is to be left open it never looks so well as if done by this method.
Indeed, it is a marvel to me that, with the museums and the Zoological Gardens surrounding them, so few London taxidermists attain even a respectable proficiency in the correct delineation of animal forms.
This was always a weak point with the taxidermists of yore, who used, with very meagre results, turpentine and plaster of Paris to clean their skins.
Exploring in this manner, I have had occasion to thank many of the leading London taxidermists for little "tips" ungrudgingly given.
In times past, certain taxidermists of Montana promoted the slaughter of wild bison in the Yellowstone Park, and it was a pair of rascally taxidermists who killed, or caused to be killed in Lost Park, in 1897, the very last bison of Colorado.
The Chinese taxidermists under my direction had made a splendid collection of small mammals, and we had pretty thoroughly exhausted the resources of the forests in the Terelche region.
The two Chinese taxidermists had taken a hundred wooden traps for smaller mammals, and before dark we inspected the places they had found.
We got eighteen, and camped at half past four in order that the taxidermists might have time to prepare the skins.
About six o'clock, accompanied by the two Chinese taxidermists carrying bags of traps, we would leave the tents.
When we reached camp I directed the twotaxidermists to prepare the skeleton of the wolf, but to keep well away from the tents.
We were pretty well exhausted from the week's strenuous climbing and spent Sunday resting and looking after the small mammal work which our Chinese taxidermists had been carrying on under my direction.
Moreover, we furnished some ourselves for one of the Chinese taxidermists became enamored of a Mongol maiden.
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