Mysore

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Mysore
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Presidency: Madras
Coordinates: 12.3033°N, 76.645866°E
Altitude: 763 m (2,503 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Mysore
State/Province: Karnataka
Country: India
Transport links
Mysore-Arsikere Railway
Mysore-Nanjangud Railway
Mysore State Railway

"Mysore, capital of the state of Mysore, India, one of the Princely states, 10 miles S.W. of Seringapatam on the Mysore State Railway."

The British controlled Mysore city from 1799 to 1881.[1]

Taxidermy in Mysore

Van Ingen and Van Ingen, based in Mysore was a leading taxidermy company. “This factory once employed 150 people, processing 400 tigers and 600 leopards each year” [2] The factory operated from about 1900. It ceased to trade in the 1990s but business had been in decline since the 1960s due to the laws restricting the hunting of endangered species – which included tigers.

The family/company published at least two books The Preservation of Shikar Trophies by Van Ingen and Van Ingen, Artists in Taxidermy, Mysore 1928 and 1933 editions, and The Artistic Treatment of Shikar Trophies (Image of front cover.[3]). The first book is available online, see below.

A book was published about the company Van Ingen and Van Ingen: Artists in Taxidermy by Dr P A Morris, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013606052 .

Further information can be found in the Wikipedia article below.

External links

Historical books online

Gold, Sport and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H Elliot 1894 Archive.org.
Digitise on Demand pay service Pack Gear for Elephants by G.P. Sanderson 1882. National Archives of India.
  • The Preservation of Shikar Trophies by Van Ingen and Van Ingen 1929. University of Florida Digital Collections. Archive.org mirror version.
  • "The Gold Mines of India" [at February 1898] page 117 The gold mines of the world : containing concise and practical advice for investors gathered from a personal inspection of the mines of the Transvaal, India, West Australia, Queensland, New Zealand, British Columbia, and Rhodesia by J H Curle 1899 Archive.org
"The Gold Mines of India and the Malay Peninsula" page 210 The Gold Mines of the World (2d Ed., 1902): Written After an Inspection of the Mines of the ... by J H Curle 1902 Archive.org
"The Gold Mines of the East" page 204 The Gold Mines of the World: Written After an Inspection of Nearly Five Hundred Mines in ... by J H Curle 3rd edition 1905 “almost entirely rewritten”.

References

  1. Wikipedia
  2. Page 7 of the Winter 2009 Newsletter of Friends Of The British Library, now archived, which introduced a proposed talk by Dr Pat A Morris author of Van Ingen and Van Ingen: Artists in Taxidermy, (now an archived link) available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013606052 .
  3. Front cover of The Artistic Treatment of Shikar Trophies