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of wood, which will give them stability, otherwise from their 

 weight they are liable to get out of shape ; but as it is 

 hardly probable that the sluffmg of this description of 

 Animals will be attempted by any but a professor, we con- 

 sider further remarks on this point unnecessary. 



When the skin is filled out to its extent, it is to be care- 

 fully sewed up with strong double silk ; the Needle should 

 be a curved triangular one, such as is used by Surgeons, the 

 fur may then be smoothed over the seam, which will hardly 

 be perceptible. The Animal should be placed in as easy and 

 natural a position as possible, at the same time recollecting 

 that natural effect ought not to give place to elegance of 

 form. Before the skin is quite dried, the eyes should be 

 inserted • and to enable the operator to represent the Animal 

 with eyes of their natural colour, it is desirable to have as 

 correct a representation of them aS possible ; glass eyes of 

 all sizes and tints, are to be procured at the glass bead- 

 makers, in London ; they should have a piece of wire 

 attached to them, by means of which they may be securely 

 fastened; and to give them a natural appearance, they 

 should be somewhat larger than the natural eye, and the 

 eye-lids must be carefully brought forward so as completely 

 to include, and which will reduce them in appearance to 

 the natural size. 



The next business is to dry the stuffed skin, which may be 

 best done in a shady room, into which the air is freely ad- 

 mitted ; in a week or more, according to the bulk of the 

 subject and the state of the atmosphere, the skin will be dry : 

 but to dislodge any remains of moisture, it may be brought 

 within the influence of a fire, but by no means close; 



