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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

Author: Albert B. Farnham

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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

[Illustration: "WHOO" SAID WISE OLD OWL.]

Published by
A. R. Harding, Publisher
Columbus, Ohio

Copyright, 1944
By A. R. Harding Pub. Co.

[Illustration: ALBERT B. FARNHAM, Author]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER. PAGE.

INTRODUCTORY 13
I. HISTORY OF THE ART 17
II. OUTFIT--TOOLS AND MATERIALS 21
III. PRESERVATIVE PREPARATIONS, FORMULA, ETC. 38
IV. PANELS, SHIELDS AND NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL MOUNTS 48
V. FIELD WORK, COLLECTING 59
VI. SKINNING AND PRESERVING SKINS 64
VII. MAKING SCIENTIFIC SKINS