Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting

Renew：Part 37
Author：W. J. Holland and William T. Hornaday
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter III. about outlines and sketches. On one corner of the outline-sheet we record the name of the specimen, locality, date, s.e.x, measurements, color of eyes, lips, feet, etc. It takes but a few moments" time, and the result is a complete and accurate record of what the animal was in the flesh. These sheets are numbered and filed away, the skin is numbered and put in the bath, and even though it be not until five years later that we are ready to mount it, we can tell as accurately what the animal was like as if it had been received only the previous day. If the specimen is a baboon, for example, with several colors on its face, it was for years my practice to make a rough sketch of the face and put upon it the various colors that belong there, in oil-colors, usually, though sometimes with water-colors. It was also my custom to spend half an hour or so in taking a mould, and making a quick cast in plaster Paris of the face of every monkey or baboon which came to me, unless I already had one which would answer as a model to copy in finishing the face.
Chapter XLV.
Chapter XIX.
Chapter 6
Chapter x.x.xVII. I will only add to this paragraph the suggestion that of all the objects that a collector can gather, nothing so well repays in every way the time and labor spent upon them as a few large, well-made, and sufficiently hideous skins of crocodilians. They are at once big, ugly, awe-inspiring, and marketable. The general public is very fond of horrible animals from far-distant countries, and I always gave it crocodiles galore.
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter IV.) until it becomes soft, be the time required three days or three weeks. If you are in a great hurry, soak the skin at first for a brief period in clear water, and if it is milk-warm, so much the better. Sometimes a skin is so old and hard and refractory that the bath of salt and alum seems to make no impression upon it, in which case try clear water. In a few hours it will yield and collapse, and then it must be put into the bath, or the water will soon macerate it, and cause the hair to slip off. You can leave the skin in the salt-and-alum bath as long as you choose without endangering it in any way.
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter XIII.
Chapter 18
Chapter VI. The body of the bird lies before you, and instead of making up the subject as a dry skin, we will mount it.
Chapter VI.), before the skin has been laid away to dry, before the blood dries and imparts a _permanent_ stain (to white feathers, at least), and before the oil has had a chance to ooze out into the feathers to gather dirt, and presently form a nasty, yellow oil-cake upon the skin. In cleaning the skin of a fat or oily bird, sc.r.a.pe all the grease from the inside of the skin, and absorb it with corn meal or plaster Paris. Sc.r.a.pe the skin until it looks as if the feathers are about to fall out, until no more oil is raised, and then you may call it clean. When you have done this, you need not fear that any oil will ever exude upon the feathers.
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter IX. (Collecting Fishes).
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter XL., it will be observed that the Insecta are broadly divisible into two groups, the Heterometabola and the Metabola. The animals cla.s.sified in the first group do not undergo metamorphosis in the development from the egg to the perfect insect to the same extent and in the same manner as the Metabola. In this respect the Peripatidea, the Myriapoda, and the various cla.s.ses included under the Acerata agree with them. The young myriapod and the young spider are found immediately after they have emerged from the egg to present most of the features of the mature insect, and so also the immature gra.s.shopper and squash-bug resemble the perfect insect in nearly everything but size and the absence of fully developed wings. In preparing a suite of specimens of these insects, designed to ill.u.s.trate their life-history, the directions which are given for the preparation of the imago apply equally well to the larva. It is simply necessary, for instance, in preparing a series of specimens of the Rocky Mountain Locust, to make sure that a specimen representing the creature after each successive moult has been secured, and these are mounted upon pins, and treated exactly as specimens of the adult insect are treated. Be careful not to pin, however, too soon after the moult.
Chapter 34
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter 36
Chapter XLIV.