Word: taxidermist
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...danger of abductions of sacrosanct animals cannot be lightly cast aside. Masterpieces of the taxidermist's art, having served long and faithfully in the Peabody Museum, may be forcibly removed from their perches. The heads of elk and bison which have looked down from the walls in the Union upon generations of Harvard men would tempt any kleptomaniacal collector of mounted beasts. Beware the Jabberwock...
Last week Ralph Carr Morrill, Peabody Museum taxidermist, was putting last touches to what remains of Ador Tipp Topp, Great Dane. When he reached the museum, Champion Ador Tipp Topp was treated as his predecessors were and his followers will be. He was carefully measured and sketched. Then Mr. Morrill smeared his head with vaseline to get a plaster cast. Next he was skinned. While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist...
...plane to scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...
Last week forceful Dr. William Temple Hornaday, retired founder-director of New York City's Bronx Zoo and long Chief Taxidermist to the U. S. National Museum, writing on the stationery of the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, criticized the new regulations as follows: "It is a pity to reduce those open seasons by halves, when it would have been both easy and safe to have adopted our recommendation of eight weeks instead of 12 or 14 weeks. We think that the duck-hunters of the United States now are so thoroughly scared (and with mighty good reason!) that they...
...Jersey City the police dog of one Howard Breves died, was sent to a taxidermist to be stuffed. Breves refused to pay the bill, testified in court...