. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Zoology; Zoologie. 508 TAXIDERMY. The same patient care enabled him to give to all feathera and furs the '' flow " which they possessed in life, and which no method except his own has been able to restore. Waterton also found that two pieces of skin if properly moulded together while wet,
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Zoology; Zoologie. 508 TAXIDERMY. The same patient care enabled him to give to all feathera and furs the '' flow " which they possessed in life, and which no method except his own has been able to restore. Waterton also found that two pieces of skin if properly moulded together while wet, would adhere to each other firmly, and that a little fine glue would cause them to unite as one piece. It was through the knowledge of this fact that he was able to produce the ludicrous combinations of different crea- tures which he placed in his museum and ticketed with all kinds of quaint names. There was for example, " Noctifer," or the Spirit of Night, made of portions of a bittern and an eagle owl, both nocturnal birds. Then he had an absurd group of John Bull surrounded by difficulties. John Bull was a tortoise with the head of an. NOCTIFER. exceedingly stout but exceedingly worried man. He was sup- porting the eight hundred millions of national debt, to which such frequent reference is made both in the Wanderings and Essays. Clinging to his back, and driving its claws into him, is perched " Diabolus bellicosus," a soi-t of grin- ning lizard all over abnormal spikes and horns. Before him. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. London; New York : Macmillan
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