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and paws, being very liable to decay, must be well imbued with 

 spirits of turpentine. This is applied with a brush, and must be 

 repeated six or eight times, at intervals of some days, until we aje 

 certain of the parts being well primed with it ; and, after all, it 

 will be advisable to give it a single coating of the solution of 

 corrosive sublimate. 



The methods of stuffing, which we have pointed out in the 

 preceding pages, are applicable to all animals, from a Lion 

 down to the smallest Mouse. Animals of a large description 

 require a frame-work suited to their dimensions ; these we will 

 point out in their order. There are also some animals whose 

 peculiarity of structure requires treatment differing a little from 

 the ordinary course. 



APES AND MONKEYS. 



One of the chief difficulties to contend with, in setting up 

 Monkeys and Apes, is the preservation of their hands and hind 

 hands, or what we commonly call their feet ; because we must 

 not attempt to deprive these limbs of their flesh, as we never 

 could again supply its place anything like what is in nature. 

 The hands must therefore be dried, and then well imbued with 

 turpentine and the solution of corrosive sublimate, repeated eight 

 or ten times at least, at intervals of four or five clays. The other 

 parts of the stuffing should be exactly similar to that recom- 

 mended for quadrupeds generally. The paws of several will 

 require to be colored with the different varnishes, and, when dry, 

 slightly polished with fine sand paper to remove the gloss. The 

 callosities, on the hinder parts of many of them, will also require 

 to be colored, and treated in the same way as the face. 



BATS. 



The wing-membranes of this varied and numerous tribe do not 

 require either wire or parchment to set them. They are very 

 easily dried by distension. They are laid on a board of soft 

 wood, the wings extended and pinned equally at the articulations, 

 and, when dry, they are removed from the board. 



HEDGEHOGS. 



When it is wished to preserve Hedgehogs, rolled into a ball, 

 which is a very common position with them in a state of nature, 



