Title
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
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