We must again recommend the stuffer to see that he has 

 sufficiently applied the preservative soap ; and the nose, lips, 

 ears, and paws, being very liable to decay, must be well imbued 

 with spirits of turpentine. This is applied with a brush, . and 

 must be repeated six or eight times, at intervals of some days, 

 until we are certain of the parts being well primed with it ; 

 and, after all, it will be adviseable to give it a single coating 

 of the solution of corrosive sublimate. 



The methods of stuffing, which we have pointed out in the 

 preceding pages, are applicable to all animals, from a Lion down 

 to the smallest Mouse. Animals of a large description, require 

 a frame-work suited to their dimensions ; these we will point 

 out in their systematic order. They are also some animals, 

 whose peculiarity of structure requires treatment differing a 

 a little from the ordinary course. 



ORDER I. BIMANA. 



The only species of this order is MAN, who justly ranks at 

 the head of the animal kingdom. Numerous have been the 

 attempts of mankind to preserve the skin of their fellow-crea- 

 ture. The very best of these have been most disgusting 

 deformities, and so totally unlike the " human form divine," 

 that none of them have found a place in collections, with the 

 exception of some parts of man, which form part of the Euro- 

 pean anatomical collections. In the museum of the Jardin du 

 Roi, at Paris, there is one of the best things of this kind which 

 we have seen a human head injected, and preserved in spirits 

 of turpentine. This curious preparation was the production of 

 Ruitch, a Dutch physician, highly celebrated for his patho- 

 logical skill. The precise manner this interesting preparation 

 was originally preserved is not known. However, it retains to 

 the present day, all the original and natural colours. In 

 winter, the cold affects the spirit so much, in which it is pre- 

 served, that the head cannot be distinguished, until the return 

 of warm weather, which dispels its cloudy appearance. 



The new Zealanders have a method of drying and preserving 

 the heads of their chiefs, with the flesh entire. Many of these 



