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.

  • Ward, Rowland, 1848?-1912.
Date:
1880
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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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    are enormous advantages to gain if they be rightly estimated and used. The dry plates, in favourable circumstances, require only a second’s exposure for a picture. They need not even be developed on the spot, if inconvenient; the undeveloped negative will keep good for months. The most portable plates are those four inches by three inches; they are sufficiently large for most useful purposes, though of course larger plates for larger pictures can be carried. It is all important that the camera and apparatus should be good, the tripod true and firm. The knives or other implements should be as few and simple as is consistent with meeting the real need efficiently; a tiger can be perfectly skinned by a skilful hand with a shoemaker’s knife, price threepence- halfpenny. It is highly important that some prepara- tion should be made for efficient and accurate record of scientific data, concerning natural features that are [evanescent, such as colour of the eye, of a bird’s bill and legs, etc.; but it is not too much to say that the whole of such apparatus may, by well considered ingenuity, be carried in the compass of a case whose capacity is measured in a few inches. It must be borne in mind before all things, that the value of any object secured and preserved depends on the com- pleteness with which all its natural features are saved, as well as the condition in which they are kept. This is true in degree for whatever purpose the object be designed, but it is essential in regard to specimens for the illustration of natural history.