. Guide leaflet. OCTOPUS GROUP This group was prepared by Dr. F. A. Lucas for the Chicago Exposition of 1893 and is alpresent in the United States National Museum. The animals were modeled in clay and cast incalllea ri ine, a mixture of glue and gelatin 20 THE STORY OF MlSkTM CROUPS 21 and color, with moderate size that permits ease of handling. Hencebirds naturally were chosen forthefirsl museum roups, and bird groupsin various styles still predominate. What maybe termed habitat groups in miniature are those usedwith much success by Mr. Figgins, in which the back of the case is a. VIRGINIA DE
. Guide leaflet. OCTOPUS GROUP This group was prepared by Dr. F. A. Lucas for the Chicago Exposition of 1893 and is alpresent in the United States National Museum. The animals were modeled in clay and cast incalllea ri ine, a mixture of glue and gelatin 20 THE STORY OF MlSkTM CROUPS 21 and color, with moderate size that permits ease of handling. Hencebirds naturally were chosen forthefirsl museum roups, and bird groupsin various styles still predominate. What maybe termed habitat groups in miniature are those usedwith much success by Mr. Figgins, in which the back of the case is a. VIRGINIA DEER IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM Virginia deer, American .Museum of Natural History, mounted by Mr. Carl in 1002. This is an example of work that has made modern taxidermy an art. The work of the taxidermist is in a way more difficult than that of the sculptor,that is, he must not only make a model of the animal in life-like pose, hut mustthen with great art fit over this model the unyielding skin of the animal colored, photographic transparency of the locality where the birds weretaken. As a variant of this, Mr. Frank C. Baker when at the ChicagoAcademy of Science used greatly enlarged photographic curved back-grounds for the insects of the vicinity of Chicago.
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