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Title: The Piker and World's fair guide ... an accurate account of the exposition, preliminary programme, Olympic games and world's championship contests ..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, W. W., (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., National publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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FRANK SCHWARZOf the Naturalists Club. WORLDS FAIR HANDY GUIDE. 147 History of Taxidermy. By FRANK SCHWARZ, ST. LOUIS, MO. (Read before the Naturalists Club.) Taxidermy, a name formally applied to the trade of most in-artistically upholstering a skin, has of late years made enor-mous strides toward perfection, as much perhaps by improve-ments in methods as by any superior skill on the part of thetaxidermist. It is known that our American Indians have used a mask madeof animal hides, such as bear, puma, deer, etc., under which theyconcealed themselves while hunting the respective animals. Theyhave also used these hides as decoys by filling the same with driedgrasses and moss. We have no reason to believe that our an-cestors in the old world did not go through the same experienceas the American Indians. There is very little history about this art, but a few instanceshave been recorded showing that taxidermy has been practicedsome five hundred years before Christ. An old narrative of the

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