TAXIDERMY AND MODELLING 



in killing him. A sudden spring, and four enormous canine 

 teeth were planted through the carotid arteries and the wind- 

 pipe, and in less than three minutes poor Tippoo lay dead. 



Mr. J. W. Bostock, having refused several tempting offers, 

 generously allowed the Leicester Museum to acquire it for a 

 nominal sum. By a strange fatality, Tippoo's murderer, and, in 

 fact, the whole den of tigers, have since then come under the 

 hands of the museum operators ; and now, in a large plate-glass 

 case in the zoological room, " Tippoo " is represented as fighting 

 with another over the dead body of an elephant, presented later 

 by Mr. G. Ginnett. The weight of the tiger (without intestines) 

 was 280 Ibs.i 



Directly it arrived, the jaws were opened and washed ; the 

 head was then placed upon a box, with a wedge opening the 

 jaws to the extent required, and the muscles of the face, 

 especially those over and under the eyes and at the corners 

 of the mouth, having been worked up to give the necessary 

 expression, a rapid colour -sketch of the head was made, 

 showing the colours of the mucous membrane inside the mouth, 

 of the great muscles leading from the inside of the lower lip nearly 

 up to the formidable canines, of the tongue, nose, and eyes, with 

 all other details required for ultimately reproducing the proper 

 colours. This, however, did not give definite form nor 

 arrangement of parts, therefore a model was made by taking a 

 piece of well-kneaded "pipe-" or modelling-clay, and, by the 

 aid of the tools Nos. 27 and 29 to 36, accurately modelling by 

 eye, assisted by measurements, the whole of the outside and 

 inside (up to the teeth) of one half of the lower jaw. 



This, being done entirely by the knowledge and aptitude 

 of the artist, is unteachable save by experience ; a figure 

 (Fig. 9, Plate VII.) is, however, given from a photograph, 



^ Not by any means excessive, as large tigers are known to attain to a weight of 

 350 lbs., and even, in some rare instances, to over Joo lbs. 



