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== 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” <ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20130405103031/http://support.bl.uk/Files/525fc8a8-47cf-4d86-897b-a0780102601d/friendsnewswinter09.pdf 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
[https://web.archive.org/web/20131204234327/http://www.anglebooks.com/product.php/42075/van-ingen---van-ingen--artists-in-taxidermy- ''Van Ingen and Van Ingen: Artists in Taxidermy''], (now an archived link) available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01013606052 .</ref> 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, based Artists in Taxidermy, Mysore was a leading taxidermy company . According to page 7 1928 and 1933 editions, and ''The Artistic Treatment of the Winter 2009 Newsletter Shikar Trophies'' (Image of front cover.<ref>[httphttps://supportweb.blarchive.ukorg/web/Page20210315004315/Become-a-friend---newsletters Friends Of The British Library], which introduces a proposed talk by Dr Pat A Morris author of [httphttps://www.anglebookstaxidermyjungle.comco.uk/product.php/42075/van-ingen-the-artistic-vantreatment-ingenof-shikar-artists-in-taxidermy- trophies/ Front cover of ''Van Ingen and Van Ingen: Artists in TaxidermyThe Artistic Treatment of Shikar Trophies''], </ref>). The first book is available at the [[British Library]]: “This factory once employed 150 peopleonline, processing 400 tigers and 600 leopards each year” The factory operated from about 1900. It ceased to trade in 1990s but business had been in decline since the 1960s due to the laws restricting the hunting of endangered species – which included tigers. Further information can be found in the Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Ingen_%26_Van_Ingen Van Ingen & Van Ingen]see below.
Photographs of A book was published about the finished product, mainly heads and rugs: *[http://www.taxidermyemporium.com/14.html company ''Van-Ingen & and Van-Ingen Gallery] from The : Artists in Taxidermy Emporium *[http://www.britishhistoricaltaxidermysociety.co.uk/main.htm '' by Dr P A Morris, available at the British Historical Taxidermy Society]. SelectLibrary UIN: The Pictorial History Of Taxidermy/Historical Collection/Van Ingen and Van IngenBLL01013606052 . (Alternatively scroll down to  Further information can be found in the Quick Link, and select Van Ingen And Van Ingen. However this link, which previously opened, did not open 8 May 2016Wikipedia article below.)
== External links ==
*Taxidermy**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Ingen_%26_Van_Ingen Van Ingen & Van Ingen] Wikipedia**[https://web.archive.org/web/20190205002302/https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/conservation/art-and-science-of-taxidermy/article4622947.ece "Art and science of taxidermy"] by Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed May 03, 2013 ''The Hindu'', archived.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore#Transport "Mysore"] ''Wikipedia''.
*[http://www.higman.de/Henry%20Irwin/mysore.htm "Mysore Palace"] from [http://www.higman.de/Henry%20Irwin/henry-irwin.htm ''Henry Irwin Architect in India 1841–1922'']
 
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00423/mode/2up ''Atlas of the Mysore State: containing maps of each of the districts with a short description, geographical, physical and statistical''] 1892. Archive.org, mirror from Ministry of Culture/National Library of India.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_266.gif "Mysore City"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18'', page 260.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_256.gif "Mysore District"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18'', page 250.
*''Mysore: a Gazetteer compiled for Government Revised Edition''
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/mysoregazetteerc01rice#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 1, Mysore in General] 1897, [http://www.archive.org/stream/mysoreagazettee04ricegoog#page/n8/mode/1up Volume 2 Mysore by Districts] 1897
*[httphttps://dliarchive.org/details/in.sercernet.iiscdli.ernet2015.in206998/handlepage/2015/280281 n3 ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Mysore and Coorg''] 1908. Pdf download, Digital Library of IndiaArchive. org *''Mysore gazetteerGazetteer'' edited by C. Hayavadana Rao published 1927-1930 in 5 volumes (Volume 2 is in 4 parts) (total 8). Volume 1, Descriptive; Volume 2, Historical (in 4 Parts); Volume 3, Economic; Volume 4, Administrative; Volume 5, Gazetteer is available to read online on the . [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] websitehttps://archive.org/search. One volume is php?query=title%3A%28Mysore+Gazetteer%29&sort=-date&page=1 Volumes available on Archive.org ] including [http://www.archive.org/stream/mysoregazetteerv035381mbp#page/n9/mode/2up ''Mysore Gazetteer Volume 2 Part 4:Historical, Modern Period''] c 1930; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.11582/page/n3 ''Volume 3 Economic''] New Edition 1929; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.11584/page/n3 ''Volume 5 Gazetteer''] New Edition 1930.*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesli00dobbgoog/page/n6/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of Life in Mysore, South Africa, and Burmah''] by Major-General R S Dobbs (Richard Stewart) 1882 Archive.org. In June 1834 Dobbs was appointed Assistant in the Mysore Commission at [[Bangalore]]. C August 1835 he was appointed in charge of one of the four districts or provinces, Chittledroog Division, as Chief Magistrate, where he remained until 1860, apart from absences such as sick leave in South Africa in 1840, and taking part in the [[2nd Burma War]] with his regiment the [[9th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry|9th Madras NI]] from 31 March 1852.*''The Experiences of a Planter in the Jungles of Mysore'' by Robert H Elliot 1871. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ONAMoXQpsVwC&pg=PR3 Volume I] Google Books, [https://archive.org/details/experiencesapla00elligoog/page/n8 Vol. I Archive.org] [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p01118998b?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p01118998b?urlappend=%3Bseq=316 Health management of plantation coolies] page 290, Vol. II. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gRs7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Vol. II Google Books]. Includes Coffee, Chinchona, Cardamon, Tea, Cotton, Silk, Sandal-Wood, Rhea-Grass.:[https://archive.org/details/goldsportcoffeep01elli/page/n8 ''Gold, Sport and Coffee Planting in Mysore''] by Robert H Elliot 1894 Archive.org.*[http://www.archive.org/stream/thirteenyearsamo029922mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Thirteen Years Among The Wild Beasts Of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation: With an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants''] by GP Sanderson, Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Catching Establishment in Mysore 6th edition 1907 Archive.org (first published 1878). The author was the model for the Rudyard Kipling character 'Petersen Sahib' in the story [http://archive.org/stream/junglebookkipl#page/216/mode/2up ''Toomai of the Elephants''], [http://www.kiplingjournal.com/textfiles/KJ180.txt Scroll down for the article 'Petersen Sahib'] by Sir Theodore Tasker ''The Kipling Journal December 1971'' [http://www.kipling.org.uk/index.htm Kipling Society] :Digitise on Demand pay service [https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/73170# ''Pack Gear for Elephants''] by G.P. Sanderson 1882. National Archives of India. *[httphttps://booksufdc.googleufl.comedu/AA00053455/00001/books?id=QdXm72aezc0C&printsec=frontcover 1j ''Gold. Sport and Coffee Planting in MysoreThe Preservation of Shikar Trophies''] by Robert H Elliott (2009) – original copyright 1898Van Ingen and Van Ingen 1929. University of Florida Digital Collections. [https://archive. Limited Preview, Google Booksorg/details/the-preservation-of-shikar-trophies-images Archive. Full org mirror version, ].*[httphttps://ia600506archive.usorg/details/goldminesworldc00curlgoog/page/n148 "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:[https://archive.org/5details/itemsgoldminesworldd00curlgoog/goldsportandcoff13746gutpage/13746-h/13746-hn276 "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 ...htm '' by Project Gutenburg on J H Curle 1902 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/goldminesworldw01curlgoog/page/n287 "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”.
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