METHODS in the ART of TAXIDERMY 



BY OLIVER DAVIE, 



author of "Nests and Eggs of North American .Birds," etc. 



NINETY FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS 



chiefly drawn by THEODORE JASPER, A. M., M. D.,..the whole containing five 

 hundred figures, clearly illustrating the modes cf procedure, in the art, together with 

 examples of characteristic forms and attitudes of various species of the animal king- 

 dom, including reproductions from photographs of actual work by American taxiderminists. 



Never before has the art of taxidermy had its practical methods and beauties 

 portrayed as we find them interpreted in this work. It is a work of art from cover to 

 cover. 



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TAXIDERMISTS' OUTFITS. 



GLASS EYES *°k^iJ„^f,r^ 



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Cartilage Knife, Scalpel, Dissecting 

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