The sportsman's handbook to practical collecting, preserving, and artistic setting-up of trophies and specimens : to which is added a synoptical guide to the hunting grounds of the world / by Rowland Ward.
- Rowland Ward
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The sportsman's handbook to practical collecting, preserving, and artistic setting-up of trophies and specimens : to which is added a synoptical guide to the hunting grounds of the world / by Rowland Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and tlie eyes from tlie skull. Similar care must be taken as to the lips_, for if the rim of the eyelids be severed by the scalj)el the injury spreads in a remark- able manner, often so badly as to render the damage seriously conspicuous. The ears should be parted from the skull close to the bone, or the lower structure of them will present too large an aperture. The lips must be cut olf close to the gums. Having thus taken off the skin, it must be cleared of all superfluous fat and flesh—and all the. fat and flesh is superfluous. The cartilaginous portion of the ear must be turned through. The lip must be treated thus: Pass the knife betweeen the mucous lining and the outer skin all round the mouth, so as to admit of the preservative penetrating this thick portion of the specimen com- pletely. The eyelids and the feet must each be treated in a similar manner for the same reason. Be careful that the claws or hoofs are w'ell kept. A fruitful source of trouble to the sportsman in Ceylon, India, Africa, etc., is the proper treatment of an ElephanPs foot. This feature is a recognised tro]Dhy, as well as the head, because it is a gauge of the size of the specimen, and because in ordinary circum- stances the skin of this mighty beast is so difficult of transport, and although it can be converted by skill into innumerable articles of domestic utility, the value of it in private hands is not always appreciated. It is different with the foot, excepting that it is particu- larly adaptable for conversion into useful articles, without impairing its natural history significance. The foot should be severed at least eighteen inches from the ground—that is to say, the skin should be severed. Cut the skin down the back of the foot right across the sole to the toe; a second cut must be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28078718_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
