Taxidermy Or the Art of Collecting Preparing And Mounting Objects of Natural
Taxidermy Or the Art of Collecting Preparing And Mounting Objects of Natural
Lee R.
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, known under the name of Becceur's soap (see page 16). This is the preservative employed in the Galleries of the Jardin du Roi, and its success is certain. We should more especially use it for unique and precious objects, for the preservation of which we are particularly anxious. The use of this preservative requires much precaution, and we must only put it inside the skin, and not on the outside, because in touching and shaking the skin to mount the animal, we may experience its per- nicious ...effects. It would be a good method to note the objects which are thus prepared, that in un- packing the cases we may shake the skins carefully. We think it may be dispensed with until the period of their being mounted for the cabinet, and the fol- lowing is the method of supplying its place. Spirits of turpentine, oil of petroleum, and cam- phor, do not kill insects, but they disperse them. These means are insufficient, and are inconvenient, on several accounts, for objects which we preserve in collections ; but they are sufficient to protect them during their transportation in cases.
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