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    Taxidermy manuals query

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    Andreas Weber posts this interesting question on his (and several others') new blog Collect and Connect (devoted to 19th-C natural history):

    Historical Taxidermic Manuals

    When I visited the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon a small exhibition on taxidermy that is the art (or is it a science?) of preparing vertebrata for museum and other purposes. In several showcases, the makers of the exhibition explained different preparation methods. What fascinated me most was the last section where historical preparation methods were discussed. In the explaining notes the makers mentioned the following historical taxidermic manuals titles.

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    Gripsholmsstuffedlion

    This took me back to seeing the strange Gripsholm Lion, the result of throwing a skin and a bag of bones at an 18th-C taxidermist with only a very vague idea of what a lion looked like. The resulting specimen is nothing if not grotesque, but it does have its share of followers, and even its own Facebook group.

    • 14 April 2011
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