The taxidermist's manual, or, The art of collecting, preparing and preserving objects of natural history. : For the use of travellers, conservators of museums, and private collectors. ... / By Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S.

  • Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862.
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII. [1833]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The taxidermist's manual, or, The art of collecting, preparing and preserving objects of natural history. : For the use of travellers, conservators of museums, and private collectors. ... / By Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. There are few individuals who have not, in the course of their lives, met with objects of Natural History, which they considered worth preserving, but, from the want of knowledge how to proceed, have been unable to do so. Indeed many fine specimens have been lost from this cause alone. To remedy this, in some de- gree, is the intention of the following little book, which will be found to contain almost all that is already known on the methods of Collecting and Preserving Objects of Natural History, including several things which are not generally known. In the year 1819, the Senatus Academicus of the Edinburgh University, did me the honour to request me to proceed to France, to inspect the splendid Museum of Mons. Dufresne, chief of the preserving department, at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, which was then for sale; and, if I approved of it, to purchase the collection for the College. I found the collection to consist of many rare and valuable specimens, and, as a whole, in a high state of preservation, as might be expected, from the ability of its distinguished possessor; and tha't it was worth more, in my estimation, than the