Wednesday, December 8, 2010

No Thanks, I'm Stuffed

Indulging my predilection for 19th-century pseudoscience, I dropped by the Secret Science Club's annual Taxidermy Contest last night. Mike Zohn spoke and mentioned this book:

A 19t-c independent lady taxidermist? Definitely next on my reading list!! Slash my new personal hero!

Here's a stereocard (another one of my favorite things!!) of Ms. Maxwell at her exhibition. She killed and mounted the pieces herself, and even slept among them in the cave!


She even has a screech owl named after her.
I kind of wish I could be retroactively reincarnated as her neighbor.
Sigh...

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