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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 6 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 63289 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 79 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 wire 6 small 6 skin 5 illustration 5 bird 4 mount 4 large 4 animal 3 work 3 leg 3 head 3 dry 3 cut 3 body 3 Fig 2 mammal 2 fish 2 Paris 2 Museum 2 Mr. 2 FIG 2 CHAPTER 1 water 1 time 1 skeleton 1 set 1 section 1 preparing 1 point 1 place 1 piece 1 little 1 group 1 good 1 fur 1 footnote 1 find 1 end 1 case 1 british 1 bone 1 York 1 Webster 1 Ward 1 Plate 1 New 1 National 1 Liberty 1 Leicester 1 Florida Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2346 skin 1526 bird 961 wire 886 head 856 body 773 leg 664 side 664 end 648 animal 624 water 597 piece 573 part 570 bone 556 time 555 case 512 fish 501 neck 490 tail 470 wing 463 specimen 460 work 454 speciman 450 size 438 point 435 place 408 eye 403 plaster 396 way 386 foot 386 back 382 feather 369 illustration 369 hand 367 flesh 353 method 353 insect 345 inch 325 board 317 paper 311 skull 310 wood 298 group 295 mammal 286 manner 286 edge 275 hole 273 clay 272 form 269 knife 268 skeleton Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1114 _ 234 Fig 156 Mr. 145 FIG 138 | 129 Museum 97 CHAPTER 89 Paris 78 . 64 New 61 maché 55 Plate 51 Birds 50 National 49 York 44 IV 44 C 44 American 41 taxidermy 39 Professor 39 C. 38 Chapter 38 B 37 papier 37 States 37 Dr. 36 II 35 United 34 Natural 32 Ward 32 BIRD 32 America 31 III 31 British 31 A 29 Society 29 HEAD 28 varnish 28 paris 28 Webster 28 North 27 fox 27 London 27 Bird 26 mould 26 buffalo 26 board 26 abdomen 26 South 26 Browne Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 4866 it 1384 you 1336 i 1133 them 973 they 432 we 358 he 157 me 148 him 100 itself 94 us 63 themselves 44 himself 43 one 34 yourself 25 myself 6 ourselves 6 mine 5 she 5 her 3 ''em 1 yours 1 wax 1 theirs 1 thee 1 ours 1 oneself 1 iv.--osteology 1 herself 1 glue--"gelatine 1 f Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 14496 be 2654 have 1497 make 1035 do 838 use 838 mount 816 take 782 cut 509 see 490 give 484 find 465 place 444 remove 425 keep 418 put 405 leave 391 dry 385 fill 363 set 355 require 349 get 345 skin 328 show 324 preserve 321 come 308 hold 272 cover 264 say 263 work 254 turn 250 go 229 lie 227 become 221 apply 218 draw 216 follow 215 attach 213 sew 213 allow 212 prevent 204 describe 203 know 197 pass 186 form 185 let 182 lay 181 clean 172 push 172 collect 171 prepare Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1623 not 1075 up 1006 small 970 out 882 large 857 then 787 well 739 very 690 good 681 other 658 now 602 little 569 so 565 as 562 more 559 also 508 down 503 first 467 long 428 off 428 dry 422 only 421 such 421 same 406 most 392 great 391 many 336 too 324 much 323 necessary 323 fine 292 possible 286 together 282 even 281 however 280 away 258 natural 258 few 251 always 239 carefully 238 back 238 about 227 right 223 on 222 in 219 often 218 thus 216 proper 215 soft 214 various Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 336 good 110 most 88 least 42 fine 41 great 40 large 26 small 24 high 20 bad 18 slight 18 long 15 easy 14 simple 12 near 9 low 7 wide 7 old 6 thick 6 safe 6 late 6 Most 5 poor 5 full 5 cheap 4 short 4 quick 4 hard 4 common 3 handy 3 handsome 2 tough 2 thin 2 strong 2 rare 2 pleasant 2 narrow 2 mean 2 heavy 2 firm 2 few 2 faint 2 early 2 dry 2 dark 2 close 2 bright 1 weak 1 warm 1 topmost 1 sure Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 296 most 49 well 25 least 1 smallest 1 latest 1 cheapest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.net 1 digital.library.villanova.edu Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/3/2/5/23259/23259-h/23259-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/3/2/5/23259/23259-h.zip 1 http://digital.library.villanova.edu/) Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 skin is then 7 specimen is dry 6 bird is now 6 skin is now 5 skin is properly 5 skin is so 4 _ do not 4 _ see _ 4 skin is ready 4 skin is very 3 bird being now 3 bird is dry 3 birds are usually 3 birds do not 3 body is not 3 body is now 3 body is then 3 eyes are now 3 head is now 3 legs are now 3 legs are then 3 skin is more 3 skin is not 3 skin is well 3 specimen is thoroughly 3 tail is now 3 wires are bent 3 wires are then 2 animal be large 2 animal is now 2 animals are often 2 bird be large 2 bird be still 2 bird is not 2 bird is well 2 birds are frequently 2 birds are often 2 birds keep well 2 body is properly 2 body is quite 2 case is now 2 cases is not 2 end is then 2 fish is dark 2 fish is dry 2 fish is now 2 neck is now 2 neck is so 2 neck is very 2 point is not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 animal are not hard 1 animal be not too 1 animals are not particularly 1 bird is not clearly 1 bird is not quite 1 birds are not cheap 1 body be not too 1 body is not too 1 bone does not readily 1 cases is not best 1 cases is not only 1 eye is not right 1 neck is not desirable 1 neck was not round 1 point is not so 1 skin is no larger 1 skin is not only 1 skins are not worth 1 specimens are not typical 1 time had not then 1 time is no object 1 ways is not as 1 wires are not firmly 1 work is not difficult A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 26014 author = Browne, Montagu title = Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. date = keywords = Britain; Browne; Chapter; Fig; Leicester; Mr.; Museum; Paris; animal; bird; body; british; case; cut; dry; find; fish; footnote; head; large; little; piece; place; point; set; skin; small; time; water; wire; work summary = tried of skinning birds in their fresh state, and also of cutting the of drawings, how very few tools are required to skin and set up a bird professional requires to skin and stuff a small or medium-sized bird inside the mouth, a small quantity of carbolic acid wash (Formula No. 16) will be found useful to dilute the preservative paste. Having placed ready for use the skinning knife (see Fig. 11), the Fig. 23--Skin of Bird Turned Ready for Severance from Body Another method of shaping skins whilst drying is described by Mr. Batty, the well-known American taxidermist, who makes a drying board for small skins in the following manner (see Fig. 24): Procure a piece Fig. 24--"Set" or Drying Board for Birds'' Skins. Then place a little piece of tow inside the skin to head, with a long piece of neck-skin attached, severed from the body, id = 23259 author = Farnham, Albert Burton title = Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration date = keywords = CHAPTER; animal; bird; cut; fish; fur; head; illustration; large; leg; mount; skin; small; wire; work summary = specimens and the methods for preserving skins of birds and animals in a and feathers of mounted specimens and the interior of furred skins I [Illustration: SKINNING SMALL ANIMAL FOR MOUNTING. [Illustration: SKINNING LARGE ANIMAL FOR MOUNTING. If not mounted at once make into a dry skin after poisoning or small [Illustration: SCIENTIFIC SKINS, SMALL ANIMALS AND BIRDS.] Let us assume that we have a dry skin each of a small bird and a furred In preparing a skin for mounting an open mouth head the lips should be may be filled by sewing in small pieces rather than cut down the skins its place in the head skin, letting the end of wire go through the MOUNTING HEADS OF SMALL ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISH. MOUNTING HEADS OF SMALL ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISH. A novelty in fur rugs is to mount the skin of some small animal in the id = 40109 author = Holland, W. J. (William Jacob) title = Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller date = keywords = American; CHAPTER; FIG; Mr.; Museum; National; New; Paris; Plate; Ward; Webster; York; animal; bird; body; bone; cut; dry; end; good; group; head; illustration; large; leg; mammal; mount; skeleton; skin; small; wire; work summary = SKINNING SMALL QUADRUPEDS.--Lay the animal flat upon its back, head to your (especially the tropics), making a large collection of mammal skins for is far easier to mount a fresh specimen in fine style than an old, dry skin MAKING UP A DRY SKIN.--_The Legs._--Having applied the preservatives, if you propose to make up your specimen as a dry skin, wrap a little tow, attached to the skin, just as with small mammals; but, of course, cutting produce; but in treating _small birds that are to be made up as dry skins_, With these great birds it is best to open the skin of each leg from the The animal''s legs, tail, and neck are now skinned precisely as those of a TREATMENT OF LARGE SKINS.--Under this heading it is necessary to place skinned and mounted, it is necessary to wipe the specimen dry, and before id = 46066 author = Maynard, C. J. (Charles Johnson) title = Manual of Taxidermy A Complete Guide in Collecting and Preserving Birds and Mammals date = keywords = FIG; Florida; bird; illustration; large; mammal; mount; section; skin; small; wire summary = improvements each has made in skin-making and mounting birds, one Some workmen will remove a skin from a bird which is nearly The time for removing the skin from a small bird should not arsenic: It thoroughly preserves the skins of birds, mammals, reptiles, skinning birds, especially small ones, as then the plumage is dusted any attempt is made either to make a bird into a skin or mount it, SECTION II.: MAKING SKINS OF SMALL BIRDS.--The instruments for SECTION III.: MAKING SKINS OF LONG-NECKED BIRDS.--Sandpipers, skins; then make a body of cotton around the end of a wire that has In making skins of all birds where the back of the head is opened, the of rare birds to make over into presentable skins specimens which have up as in fresh birds, but such skins generally require more careful Making skins of small birds, 50 Mounting dried skins, birds, 78 Skins of small birds, 52 id = 29691 author = Pray, Leon Luther title = Taxidermy date = keywords = Fig; body; illustration; leg; mount; preparing; skin; small; wire summary = Use care not to cut skin around tail, as at knee. Next peel the neck skin down over head to bill, pulling out ear linings To set neck-wire in body, thrust it in a little above center of larger note sketch and wrap a soft neck of natural size upon the wire (see Fig. 6). Leave head end of neck a little bit long to set into brain cavity It now remains to place the body, set wings and legs and tail, sew up When legs are set shake and carefully pull skin of rump into place. Position the legs, body, and head, and set the tail To make up dry bird skins for keeping to mount at a future time, follow Skin the specimen as you would a small mammal, except that body incision Prepare the skin, wire and wrap the legs and head, and make the id = 43090 author = Warford, Aaron A. title = How to Stuff Birds and Animals A valuable book giving instruction in collecting, preparing, mounting, and preserving birds, animals, and insects date = keywords = Boys; Fig; Liberty; animal; bird; dry; illustration; skin; small; wire summary = the head, legs and tail being all attached to the skin, from which the sheath, and the oval part of the wire placed within the skin of the The mode of fixing the legs is by passing one of their pieces of wire SKINNING, PRESERVING, AND MOUNTING BIRDS. _Manner of holding the hands in skinning a bird._] When the skins are merely wished preserved, the bones of the legs and _4, the oval and head-wires of a bird separated; 5, the tail-bearers A NEW AND EASIER METHOD OF BIRD SKINNING AND STUFFING. the leg, cutting them off close to the body, and turn the skin inside skin, lay it on the table on its back, and pass the wire at the head THE ART OF MOUNTING BIRDS, DRIED SKINS, FEATHERS, ETC. In the preservation of the feathers of Birds, little else is required over the skin of the animal or bird with a brush.