. The encyclopaedia of sport. flake-whiteand was allowed to dry. Lastly, the skin, which during all the preceding pro-cesses had dried as hard as a board, was soaked in warmwater, often changed, for two or three days, and wasthen scraped throughout to remove all fat and the hardinner layer of skin, until after some time it became aspliable as a glove. The feathers, cleaned somewhat bythe soaking, were wiped down with benzoline and plaster missing, replaced by modelling-composition, and the legsand all soft parts coloured according to the notes primarilytaken. Methods of Setting Up and Mount-in
. The encyclopaedia of sport. flake-whiteand was allowed to dry. Lastly, the skin, which during all the preceding pro-cesses had dried as hard as a board, was soaked in warmwater, often changed, for two or three days, and wasthen scraped throughout to remove all fat and the hardinner layer of skin, until after some time it became aspliable as a glove. The feathers, cleaned somewhat bythe soaking, were wiped down with benzoline and plaster missing, replaced by modelling-composition, and the legsand all soft parts coloured according to the notes primarilytaken. Methods of Setting Up and Mount-ing Fishes—If mammals and birds havebeen badly used by the stuffer, surely thefishes can bitterly complain of the indignitiespiled upon them by an attempt to resuscitatethem by taxidermic processes, for no known pro-cesses of taxidermy, which necessitate the re-moval of cartilage and its substitution by aforeign material, can ever reproduce thegelatinous appearance which certain partsof fishes present. .Supposing any fish be. Fig. I.—Represents a model, by the direct paper process, of the 2.—That of the back. Figs. 2A AND 2B.—Those of the sides. Figs. 3 and 3.\.—Those of the halves of the 4, 4A, 5, and 5A.—Those of the All are untrimmed, excepting 4 and 5A. The moulds, being merely intaglios of the models, are not figured. thrown on to clean and dry them still further. Thisdone, all imperfect parts, or those not of a good shape,were modelled over with pipe-clay, worked verysmooth with paste, and retained in position on themodel by means of cap-paper pasted over all. Theskull, still attached to the skin, was modelled up andplaced upon the neck of the model, the skin of the neckbeing gradually drawn over it, and the remainder drawnover the model, one leg, the right, being further split forthat purpose. The skin of the wings, legs, and body havingbeen pulled into position and nicely adjusted, were care-fully sewn together with skin-needles
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