... the growing interest taken in natural history, we find that in 1860 the number of visitors to the natural history department was greatly in excess of all the other departments; and at the present ... the heads and limbs of animals, we still hold our own, and are as far advanced in taxidermy as any other nation. CHAPTER II. DECOYING AND TRAPPING ANIMALS. THE decoying and trapping of birds, ... 150 years ago, at which date naturalists appear to have had some idea of the proper preservation and mounting of natural history specimens; but Réaumur, more than a century and a quarter ago,...