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and depressions of plaster moulds of palates, tongues, and so 

 on. If a mould be large, pieces of wax may be added as 

 required, and if the pressure applied be sufficiently powerful and 

 long sustained the joins will not show (see Fig. 1 2, Plate 

 VII.). The edges of the various portions of a model, such as 

 the upper and under parts of a tongue, can be united by 

 pressure and tooling, and the muscles, etc., around the teeth 

 may also be made up by pressure ; hence a supply of sticks of 

 the modelling-waxes, Formulae 64, 65, 66, and 73, in various 

 colours are extremely useful, are easily manipulated, and of 

 equal value with the hot waxes. 



Not only may tongues, palates, and such-like objects be 

 modelled in various waxes from moulds, as previously described 

 and figured, but they may be excellently reproduced from moulds 

 by any of the pulps, especially Formula 93 (see Fig. 13, Plate 

 VII.); and when coloured pulp is used, allowed to dry, and after- 

 wards brushed over with a very thin layer of very hot coloured 

 wax, the result is quite as good, and both wax and pulp processes 

 are greatly in advance of the clay tongues recommended by 

 Mr. Rowland Ward,^ and of the skinned-out natural tongue filled 

 with sheet-lead and clay recommended by Mr. Hornaday.^ 



The skin around the base of the protracted claws was also 

 waxed to represent the natural appearance. 



The artificial eyes should be — as was the case in all the 

 examples mentioned in this division — made of half-ovals of thin 

 glass painted to nature from the inside (see p. 193), and inserted 

 in the orbits after the eyelids have been filled, and the cornea, 

 etc., then made up in wax. 



The second tiger-model shown on Plate VI. was managed 

 in the same way, the only difference being that one leg (the off 

 hind), not being sufficiently advanced, was dissected, just at 



^ Sportsman's Handbook, seventh edition, p. 82. 

 "^ Taxidermy, pp. 174, 175. 



