SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Artistic and Scientific Taxidermy and Modelling. 

 By Montagu Browne, F.G.S., F.Z.S., 463 pp. 

 small 4to, with 22 full-page illustrations, and 11 

 others in text. (London : Adam and Charles 

 Black, 1896.) Price 21s. 



This is a beautifully-produced book, well printed 

 and handsomely illustrated. It is " A manual of 



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published in England. The recent revolution in 

 natural history museum management— so ably 

 led by Sir William Henry Flower at South 

 Kensmgton— has raised the craft of taxidermy to 

 a fine art. Our older manuals have therefore 

 become out of date, and some such work 

 as that before us was needed. This book 



Hawk (Kestrel). Showing method of bracing and binding the feathers. 

 (From Montagu Browne's "Artistic Taxidermy and Modelling.") 



instruction in the methods of preserving and 

 reproducing the correct form of all natural objects, 

 including a chapter on the modelling of foliage." 

 The veteran author is the well-known curator of 

 the Leicester Corporation Museum, who, years 

 ago, issued a small handbook on the same subject. 

 This work is of a far more pretentious character, 

 and is one of the most important on taxidermy yet 



is divided into ten chapters on the various 

 sections dealt with, including tools used in the 

 work, killing and preservative agents, modelling 

 compositions, collecting animals for subjects, 

 treatment of mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes; 

 also chapters on modelling flowers, foliage, fruits, 

 fungi, algae, etc.; concluding with a chapter on 

 mounting animals in an artistic manner and a 



