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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 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''. Further information can be found in the Wikipedia article below.
== External links ==
*[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===
*[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.
*''Mysore Gazetteer'' 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. [https://archive.org/search.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.
*''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://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p01118998b?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] HathiTrust Digital Library. Includes Coffee, Chinchona, Cardamon, Tea, Cotton, Silk, Sandal-Wood, Rhea-Grass.
:[httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/details/goldsportcoffeep01elli/page/books?id=QdXm72aezc0C&printsec=frontcover n8 ''Gold. Sport and Coffee Planting in Mysore''] by Robert H Elliot (2009) – original copyright 1898. Limited Preview, Google Books. Full version, [http://ia600506.us.archive.org/5/items/goldsportandcoff13746gut/13746-h/13746-h.htm Project Gutenburg on Archive.org] [https://archive.org/details/goldsportandcoff13746gut Other download options 1894 Archive.org] [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13746 Gutenberg.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]
