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remainder was wet, the eye, as a special organ, being truthfully- 

 copied, so that, by studying the greys and lights, the appear- 

 ance of liquidity and depth was arrived at. 



Needless to say, it is impossible to describe exactly how 

 it was done ; only the colours can be given as a guide, and no 

 two artists would agree in this. They are merely indicated, 

 therefore, as a record of what was actually and satisfactorily 

 accomplished with them. 



Not only js the direct paper method useful for modelling 

 such objects as have been described, but it is of the highest 

 service to delineate correctly rocks of various formations which 

 it is desirable to introduce into cases as accessories. Ordinarily, 

 the "rock work" is a fancy conception (see pp. 381, 382), but, 

 if a plaster mould in two or more pieces be made of any stone, 

 those pieces may be tied together, and paper pasted within 

 them to a sufficient thickness, as for other objects, and the 

 mould may be removed when the model is dry, leaving a perfect 

 reproduction of all the characteristics of the original. In this 

 way certain rocks in the Leicester Museum have been modelled, 

 and, to give an idea of the saving of weight, there is a small 

 flint boulder of the original weight of over 7 lbs., the model 

 of which weighs but a trifle. 



That the English are as far behind in such matters as the 

 Americans, a. visit to the British Museum will demonstrate. 

 There the resources of paper are almost unheard of. Skeletons 

 of large extinct animals and others, for which it is admirably 

 adapted by reason of its lightness and toughness, are cast in 

 the old-fashioned heavy and brittle plaster, and although, for 

 such objects as the cetaceans, the paper process is invaluable, 

 the resources of taxidermy not being sufficient to even decently 

 portray these mammals, yet the British and American Govern- 

 ment Museums do not appear to have recognised this fact,'or 

 in but a half-hearted manner. 



