Showing posts with label skeleton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skeleton. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2015

That Which Looks like the Knee of a Cat Is Really the Wrist (1891)

George Ricks, Natural History Object Lessons: A Manual for Teachers (Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1891), 146.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Cannon, Bell, & Bones Brought Up From the Wreck of the Hussar (1873)

Frank B. Goodrich and Edward Howland. Ocean's Story; Or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries; A Graphic Description of Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries, and Inventions: And of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation from the Ark to the Iron Steamships, with an Account of Adventures Beneath the Sea: Diving, Dredging, Deep Sea Sounding, Latest Submarine Explorations, &c.&c., Prepared with Great Care. (Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1873).

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Teeth of the Wolf Fish (1855)

Teeth of the Wolf-fish
Richard Owen, The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), 246.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Managing Mould & Model (1884)

Stag's head in plaster from clay model.
Montagu Browne. Practical Taxidermy: Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds to which is Added a Chapter upon the Pictorial Arrangement of Museums. (London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884).

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Number & Disposition of Toes (1861)

Skeleton of hippopotamus
F. Rhymer Jones. The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom. 3rd. ed.  (London: John Van Voorst, 1861).

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Wiring a Frog (1894)

A frog should be skinned through the mouth and the entire vertebrae column should remain intact attached to the skin of the back in order to preserve the peculiar characteristic shape of the back. The legs are made with cotton and the body is filled with the same material through the mouth. The of manner wiring is clearly shown.
Oliver Davie. Methods in the Art of Taxidermy. Illustrations by Theodore Jasper. (Columbus: Hann & Adair, 1894)

Friday, October 26, 2012

Bison Manikin, Half Completed (1900)

Manikin for Male American Bison, Half Completed
William T. Hornaday. Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting, 7th ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900).

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Ready for Mounting (1884)

Montagu Browne. Practical Taxidermy: Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds to which is Added a Chapter upon the Pictorial Arrangement of Museums. (London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884).

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Manikin for Zebra, First Stage (1898)

Manikin for zebra, first stage
John Rowley. The Art of Taxidermy. (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1998).

Monday, October 22, 2012

The Arab Horse (1907)

Henry Fairfield Osborn. Points of the Skeleton of the Arab Horse. (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1907).

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Skeleton of the Tortoise (1855)

Skeleton of the European Tortoise
Richard Owen, The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), 123.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Tongue of the Woodpecker (1891)

Tongue of the Woodpecker
George Ricks. Natural History Object Lessons: A Manual for Teachers. (Boston: D.C. Heath & Company, 1891.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Thick & Irregular Arm Bones (1840)

Skeleton of the Chlamyphorus
William Charles L. Martin. A Natural History of Quadrupeds, and other Mammiferous Animals. Illustrations by William Harvey. (London: Whitehead and Company, 1840)

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Collecting & Preserving (1900)

William Temple Hornaday, William Jacob Holland. Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting, 7th ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900.)

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Counterbalanced Cranium (1861)

Counterbalanced Cranium (Skeleton of the stag)
F. Rhymer Jones. The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom. 3rd. ed.  (London: John Van Voorst, 1861).

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Alligator Limbs A & B (1897)

alligator limbs A & B
Syndey H. Reynolds. The Vertabrate Skeleton. (Cambridge: The University Press, 1897).

Monday, October 8, 2012

Pachydermata Variation (1840)

Teeth of hippopotamus
William Charles L. Martin. A Natural History of Quadrupeds, and other Mammiferous Animals. Illustrations by William Harvey. (London: Whitehead and Company, 1840).

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Left Half of the Skeleton (1897)

Left half of the skeleton, gallus bankiva var. domestica, The skull, vertebral column, and sternum are bisected in the median plane.
Sydney H. Reynolds. The Vertebrate Skeleton. (Cambridge: University Press, 1897).

Friday, October 5, 2012

Neither Hands Nor Talons (1854)

Skeleton of a Cobra
Richard Owen, The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), 74.

Showing Method of Binding (1884)

Peregrine Falcon On Flight
Montagu Browne. Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds : to which is Added a Chapter Upon the Pictorial Arrangement of Museums. (London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884).