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== Taxidermy in Mysore ==
Van Ingen and Van Ingen, based in Mysore was a leading taxidermy company . According to page 7 of the Winter 2009 Newsletter of “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/PageFiles/Become525fc8a8-a47cf-friend4d86-897b--newsletters a0780102601d/friendsnewswinter09.pdf Page 7 of the Winter 2009 ''Newsletter of Friends Of The British Library''], now archived, which introduces 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: “This factory once employed 150 people, processing 400 tigers and 600 leopards each year” 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. Further information can be found in the Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Ingen_%26_Van_Ingen Van Ingen & Van Ingen].
Photographs of the finished product, mainly heads and rugs:
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160508102840/http://www.taxidermyemporium.com/14.html Van-Ingen & Van-Ingen Gallery] from The Taxidermy Emporium , now an archived webpage, *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160508111419/http://www.britishhistoricaltaxidermysociety.co.uk/main.htm British Historical Taxidermy Society], now archived. Select: The Pictorial History Of Taxidermy/Historical Collection/Van Ingen and Van Ingen. (Alternatively scroll down to the Quick Link, and select Van Ingen And Van Ingen. However this link, which previously opened, did not open 8 May 2016.)
== External links ==
*''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.
*''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.
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=QdXm72aezc0C&printsec=frontcover ''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 Archive.org] [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13746 Gutenberg.org].
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