. Science-gossip . .Foot of H. equina, showing double claws, central processand long prickly bristles. A portion of the claw of H. maculata.(From Miss Ormerods Injuriotis Insects.) SCIENCE-GOSSIP. Artistic and Scientific Taxidermy and Montagu Browne, , , 463 4to, with 22 full-page illustrations, and 11others in text. (London : Adam and CharlesBlack, 1896.) Price 21s. This is a beautifully-produced book, well printedand handsomely illustrated. It is A manual of 19 published in England. The recent revolution innatural history museum management—so ablyled by Sir
. Science-gossip . .Foot of H. equina, showing double claws, central processand long prickly bristles. A portion of the claw of H. maculata.(From Miss Ormerods Injuriotis Insects.) SCIENCE-GOSSIP. Artistic and Scientific Taxidermy and Montagu Browne, , , 463 4to, with 22 full-page illustrations, and 11others in text. (London : Adam and CharlesBlack, 1896.) Price 21s. This is a beautifully-produced book, well printedand handsomely illustrated. It is A manual of 19 published in England. The recent revolution innatural history museum management—so ablyled by Sir William Henry Flower at SouthKensmgton—has raised the craft of taxidermy toa fine art. Our older manuals have thereforebecome out of date, and some such workas that before us was needed. This book. Hawk (Kestrel). Showing method of bracing and binding the feathers.(From Montagu Brownes Artistic Taxidermy and Modelling.) instruction in the methods of preserving andreproducing the correct form of all natural objects,including a chapter on the modelling of veteran author is the well-known curator ofthe Leicester Corporation Museum, who, yearsago, issued a small handbook on the same work is of a far more pretentious character,and is one of the most important on taxidermy yet is divided into ten chapters on the varioussections dealt with, including tools used in thework, killing and preservative agents, modellingcompositions, collecting animals for subjects,treatment of mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes;also chapters on modelling flowers, foliage, fruits,fungi, algae, etc.; concluding with a chapter onmounting animals in an artistic manner and a 20 SCIENCE-GOSSIP. bibliography of these subjects. Perhaps the mostinstructi\e chapters are those devoted to mode
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