Taxidermy. Richard Lydekker. WWW.Taxidermy4cash.com
By: www.Taxidermy4cash.com | Posted: 17th November 2006
RICHARD LYDEKKER (1849-1915)
English naturalist and geologist, was born in London July 25 1849. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first-class in the Natural Science tripos (1871). He joined the staff of the geological survey of India in 1874, remaining in this post till 1882. He became very widely known as a naturalist, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1894 Richard Lydekker was also influential in the science of biogeography. In 1895 he delineated the biogeographical boundary through Indonesia, known as Lydekker's Line, that separates Wallacea on the west from Australia-New Guinea on the east.
Sportsmand's British Bird Book dated 1908
Richard Lydekker worked with the Rowland Ward studio to produce this fascinating book on the subject of British birds. Most of the images contained within this rare book are pictures taken from actual mounts created by "The Rowland Ward Studio", and are understood to be housed in the Natural History Museum, but not on display these days. We are uncertain as to where these mounts still exist?. These books are still available, we have a signed Richard Lydekker copy of this book and intend at some point to post all the images. This is an excellent refence book on how taxidermy should be done and in particular relation to small perching birds like Tits. Rowland Ward himself also participated in the compilation of this book, shortly before his own death in 1912. For those taxidermist who want to replicate such work fel free to use these images for reference purposes.
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