Handbook of instructions for collectors

Title Variants

Alternative: Instructions for collectors

By

British Museum (Natural History)

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by Hazell, Watson and Viney, ld.], 1902

Notes

A collected and revised re-issue of the various separate "Instructions for collecting," &c., prepared by the several Departments.

"The various chapters have been written by different members of the staff of the Natural history museum."--Preface.

Contents: Hints on removing and preparing the skins of mammals -- Instructions for the preservation of birds -- How to determine the sex of a bird -- Instructions for collecting reptiles, batrachians, and fishes -- Instructions for collecting insects -- How to collect Diptera (two-winged flies) -- How to collect mosquitoes -- Instructions for collecting spiders, centipedes (Arachnida, Myriopoda), and <Peripatus> -- Methods of collecting and preserving various soft-bodied invertebrate animals -- Hints for collecting and preserving shells of molluscs -- Directions for collecting and preserving plants -- Suggestions as to collecting and preserving fossils -- On collecting microscopic and other organisms in rocks -- Notes on collecting minerals.

Subjects

methods , Museum techniques , Natural history , Preparation , Specimens , Taxidermy , Technique , Zoology

BHL Collections

Natural History Museum (London) Publications

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.104696
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51379579