18th April 2007
British explorer and hunter, was born in London on the 31st of December 1851, and was educated at Rugby and in Germany. His love for natural history led to the resolve to study the ways of wild animals in their native haunts. Going to South Africa when he...
30th March 2007
Fergus Mentieth Ogilvie
1861-1918
Virtually all the birds collected were obtained between 1879-1914, from Suffolk and Scotland. Suffolk being part of the family home and surrounding area and also the family home located in Barcaldine, near Loch Ceran...
01st March 2007
The museum has fine collection of mounted specimens from the Victorian era, with cases and mounts by Rowland Ward, Spicer and T.E Gunn. The most significant and spectacular collection is the Ogilvie Collection of mounted British birds formed by Fergus Men...
22nd February 2007
TIGER IN BOW STREET POLICE COURT AS HUMAN REMAINS.
During my residence in Little Russell Street, Covent Garden, I received a dead, full-grown tiger, from a menagerie. Being anxious to preserve the skeleton as well as the skin, I had the whole of the fl...
22nd January 2007
I am starting with a skinned bird. This particular bird will be using a cast head and feet, therefore I have altered the normal skinning process slightly. To begin with, I skinned ventrally... then the customer decided he wanted artifical cast feet.. so.....
11th January 2007
Caddo was first seen by Europeans in the 16th century, but substantial development would only begin with invention of the steamboat and US annexation of both Louisiana and Texas in the 19th century. The cities of Port Caddo, Swanson's Landing and Jefferso...
22nd December 2006
Taxidermy forgeries
Forgeries can range from the technically excellent, where you "cannot see the join", to moronic attempts to deceive. Monetary gain appears to be driving this type of activity, so no surprise there really. The frequency of forging atte...
19th December 2006
When to restore and when not to restore?. This is the question that is often posed and seldom answered these days. So many cases seemingly beyond repair now are being split / dismantled and turning up on internet auction sites. It would appear that the...
15th December 2006
William Borrer, Naturalist
William Borrer was born at Barrow Hill, Henfield, West Sussex on January 18th 1814. He inherited a love of natural history from his father the noted botanist William Borrer senior, friend of Sir Joesph Banks and William Hooke...
15th December 2006
During this period collecting and mounting of both taxidermy birds and animals was undertaken on a commercial scale. Routinely specimens were collected from the wild in a random fashion. Birds, chicks and eggs were taken for scientific purposes and arrang...
15th December 2006
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13th December 2006
First British Museum
The first museum in Britain, the Ashmole Museum, began as a cabinet of curiosities donated to the University of Oxford in 1677 by Elias Ashmole. This cabinet comprised of a collection of rare and curios items that Ashmole had rec...
13th December 2006
The first principle governing the art is that, after the specimen has been procured, in as fresh and clean a state as may be, it should have the skin stripped from the body in such a manner as not to disturb the scales if a fish or a reptile, the feathers...
13th December 2006
Countdown to Extinction. Today's Position and Events
By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 per cent will be on the brink, according to one of the largest studies of avian biodiversity. It is ...
13th December 2006
The Scottish Wildcat
In Scotland the wildcat became extinct in the Lothians before 1800 and by 1830 it was absent from almost the whole of the south of Scotland and from Nairn, Moray and Banff. In Dumfries and Galloway, the last wildcat was killed at...
