TAXIDERMICAL METHODS IN THE LEYDEN MUSEUM. 1037 



among the muscles by meaus of pius, as the plaster would set too soou 

 for the purpose. 



lu terms most unqualified lie condemns the methods of mammal 

 mounting practiced by Mr. Montagu-Browne at the Leicester Museum, 

 and described in his recent work. And he is quite correct when he points 

 out that it is simply impossible to get the correct form of a large mam- 

 mal for the purpose of a model by taking casts in plaster "of its lifeless, 

 flayed body." 



The method sees its most useful end in the reproduction of the forms 

 of dead animals — not living ones — and as the method is a time- wasting 

 and mechanical one, the hand of the skilled taxidermic artist must ever 

 be missed in its employment. 



