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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 159

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 159 — FIG. 3. DRYING OUT THE SKIN. (SEE PAGE 692.)691 69: MOUNTING LARGE ANIMALS. [June, the National Museum in Washington, as wellas views of an elephant and a buffalo in un-dress — before the prepared skin has beenplaced upon them. They show what a hollow- Fig. 2 shows the skin stretched over theframe… … FIG. 4. THE FINISHED SPECIMEN. (SEE PAGE 693.) mockery a mounted animal usually is, howeverlifelike it may look. Fig. 1 shows the framework for the animal.All of it is of wood or wire, except the bonyskull-piece carrying the tusks and a small por-tion of the skull itself; notice the flippers,…

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