Taxidermy And Zoological Collecting

Author : William Temple Hornaday
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ISBN 13 : 9781332589388
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting written by William Temple Hornaday and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting: A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller In these heydays of popular zoology, when eager young naturist are coming to the front in crowds, and fine new scientific museums are starting up on every hand, there is a small need to apologize for the appearance of a work designed expressly for the naturalist and museum builder.Had justice been done, some one would have written this book ten years ago. The rapid and alarming destruction of all forms of wild animal life which is now going on furiously throughout the entire world, renders it imperatively necessary for those who would build up great zoological collections to be up and doing before any more of the leading species are exterminated. It is already too late to collect wild specimens of the American bison, Californian elephant seal, West Indian seal, great auk, and Labrador duck. Very soon it will also be too late to collect walrus, manatee, fur seal, prong-horn antelope, elk. mouse, mountain sheep, and mountain goat. All along the Atlantic coast and in Florida the ducks are being exterminated for the metropolitan markets, and the gulls, terns, her.ms, egrets, ibises, and spoonbills are being slaughtered wholesale for the equally bloodthirsty goddess of Fashion. If the naturalist would gather representatives of all these forms for perpetual preservation, and future study, he must set about it at once. This work is offered as my contribution to the science of zoology and the work of the museum-builder. It is entirely "an affair of the heart," and my only desire in regard to it is that it may be the means of materially increasing the worlds store of well-selected and well-preserved examples of the beautiful and interesting animal forms that now inhabit the earth and its waters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.