Montagu Browne

Name: Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Author: Montagu Browne

Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

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“Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition”, published in 1888, is a work by Montagu Browne. It explores elements such as skin, tow and taxidermists.

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ The flesh being cleared off, and the brain and eyes extracted, the skull should adhere to the skin by the inner edges of the lips. All the flesh should be trimmed from the bones of the legs. The head, being shaped, where the flesh was removed, by tow and clay, is returned into the skin. A long wire of sufficient strength is tightly bound with tow, making a long, narrow body, through which wires are thrust by the skin of the soles of the feet. The leg wires and bones being wrapped with tow and clay into shape, the points of the wires are pushed through the tow body and clenched. ”

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ To give a life-like representation, attention is also paid to artistic "mounting." By this is meant the surrounding of specimens with appropriate accessories, and it is well exemplified by the new work shown in the natural history museum at South Kensington, where, for example, birds are arranged as in a state of nature, feeding or flying to their young, sitting on their eggs, swimming in miniature pools, or preening their feathers whilst perched lovingly side by side, and surrounded by exquisitely modelled foliage and flowers. ”

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Reptiles, when small, have their skin removed by cutting away the attachment of the skull to the cervical vertebræ, and by turning the decapitated trunk out at the mouth by delicate manipulation. When large, they are cut along their median line, and treated in the same manner as mammals.
Fishes, after being covered on their best side with paper or muslin to protect the scales, are cut along the other side from the tail to the gills, and are skinned out by removing "cutlets," as large as is possible without cracking the skin, which, indeed, should be kept damp during work. ”

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ The first principle governing the art is that, after the specimen has been procured, in as fresh and clean a state as may be, it should have the skin stripped from the body in such a manner as not to disturb the scales if a fish or a reptile, the feathers if a bird, or the fur or hair if a mammal. ”

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ A new school of taxidermists, with new methods, whose aim is to combine knowledge of anatomy and modelling with taxidermic technique, are now coming to the front, and the next generation will discard all processes of "stuffing" in favour of modelling. ”

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ In the case of mammals, after the skin has been completely removed, even to the toes, a copy is made of the body, posed as in life, and from this an accurate representation of form, including delineation of muscles, &c., is built up in light materials ”

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ The ordinary glass eyes are discarded, and hollow globes, specially made, are hand-painted from nature, and are fixed in the head so as to convey the exact expression, which the pose of the body demands. ”

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ This, with correct modelling of the specimens, which, except in rare instances, is not quite so striking in the new groups, indicates the future of the art, the hope of which lies in the better education of taxidermists as designers, artists, and modellers. ”

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Montagu Browne, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Like all arsenical preparations, this is exceedingly dangerous in the hands of unskilled persons, often causing shortness of breath, sores, brittleness of the nails, and other symptoms; and, as arsenic is really no protection against the attacks of insects, an efficient substitute has been invented by Browne, composed of 1 lb of white curd soap and 3 lb of whiting boiled together, to which is added, whilst hot, 11/2 oz. ”

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