Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit

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Author

Farnham, Albert Burton, 1867-1944

Title

Home taxidermy for pleasure and profit : a guide for those who wish to prepare and mount animals, birds, fish, reptiles, etc., for home, den, or office decoration

Credits

E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Rudy Ketterer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Taxidermy

Category

Text

eBook-No.

23259

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23259

Release Date

October 31, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit — A Guide for those who wish to prepare and mount animals, birds, fish, reptiles, etc., for home, den, or office decoration — By Albert B. Farnham , Taxidermist — Published by A. R. HARDING, Publisher Columbus, Ohio
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.List of Illustrations
4. 4.INTRODUCTION — Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit
5. 5.CHAPTER I. — HISTORY.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. — OUTFIT—TOOLS AND MATERIALS.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. — PRESERVATIVE PREPARATIONS, FORMULAS, ETC.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — PANELS, SHIELDS AND NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL MOUNTS.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — FIELD WORK, COLLECTING.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — SKINNING AND PRESERVING SKINS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — MAKING SCIENTIFIC SKINS.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — PREPARING DRY AND WET SKINS FOR MOUNTING.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — MOUNTING SMALL AND MEDIUM BIRDS.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. — MOUNTING LARGE BIRDS.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. — TANNING, CLEANING AND POISONING SKINS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. — MAKING ANIMAL FUR RUGS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. — FUR ROBES AND HOW TO MAKE THEM.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. — MOUNTING ENTIRE SMALL FUR ANIMALS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. — MOUNTING LARGE ANIMALS ENTIRE.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. — MOUNTING HEADS OF SMALL ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISH.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. — MOUNTING HEADS OF LARGE GAME.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. — MOUNTING HORNS AND ANTLERS.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. — MOUNTING FEET AND HOOFS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XX. — MOUNTING FISH.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. — MOUNTING FISH—BAUMGARTEL METHOD.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. — MOUNTING REPTILES, FROGS AND TOADS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. — SKULLS AND SKELETONS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV. — SPORTSMEN'S TROPHIES.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV. — ODDS AND ENDS, TAXIDERMIC NOVELTIES.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI. — GROUPS AND GROUPING.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII. — ANIMAL ANATOMY.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII. — CASTING AND MODELLING.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX. — MARKET TROPHY HUNTING.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXX. — COLLECTING AND MOUNTING FOR SALE.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXI. — PRICES FOR WORK. — PRICES FOR MOUNTING SPECIMENS.
36. 36.FUR-FISH-GAME
37. 37.FUR-FISH-GAME — Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins

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