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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, Artists in Taxidermy, Mysore 1928 and 1933 editions, and ''The Artistic Treatment of Shikar Trophies'' (Image of front cover.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210315004315/https://www.taxidermyjungle.co.uk/product/van-ingen-the-artistic-treatment-of-shikar-trophies/ Front cover of ''The Artistic Treatment of Shikar Trophies'']</ref>). 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.
