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ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC TAXIDERMY 
AND MODELLING. 
Artistic and Scientific | Taxidermy and Modelling | A manual of instruction 
in the methods of pre- | serving and reproducing the correct | form of all 
natural objects | including a seg on | the modelling of | foliage | By | 
Montagu Browne, F.G.S., F.Z.S., etc. | Curator of the Leicester Corporation 
Museum and Art Gallery; | Author - ‘ Practical Taxidermy,’ ‘The Vertebrate 
Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland,’ etc. | with 22 full-page illustrations 
and 11 illustrations in text | London | Adam and Charles Black | 1896 [Small 
4to, pp. xii+ 463+ 22 plates; price 2Is. 
WE must heartily prangalies the author of this book, Mr. Montague 
Browne, Curator of the Leicester Museum, on the accomplishment 
of a piece of work ‘which does credit to him and to all who have been 
concerned in its production. At a first glance this work, with its 
intended for a table-book, so embellished is the cover with gilt, but 
a look inside reveals a text-book on the art of preserving and 
displaying animals and plants. It is in no sense a second edition of 
the same au os sa ‘ beet Taxidermy,’ though it covers and 
extinguishes that 
e haat ook the volume is somewhat spoiled by putting 
the chapter on the preserving media at the front instead of at the 
end of the book, where their various compositions could be better 
referred to and at less risk of soiling the general reading matter. The 
disturbance of a fixed habit is never pleasing. These preserving media 
are so fully described that seventy pages are devoted to them, and 
though it may be somewhat difficult to see the relationship at times 
between ‘ Artistic and Scientific Taxidermy’ and the preserving of 
Radiolaria in a 50 to 70 per cent. solution of alcohol, or Starfishes 
in a 20 to 30 per cent. solution of the same fluid, or the reason why 
many of the recipes are there at all, yet personally we thank the 
author for the care he has taken in collating them. The preserving 
substances which the author claims to have discovered are marked 
M.B., and one is struck to find many of these are very familiar. 
One is an alcoholic solution of bichloride of mercury, with which we 
perhaps it does not matter materially, to being told that their 
methods since they agree with those of a certain writer, who has 
them in his book, are his not theirs. 
February 1297. > 
