CHAPTER I. 



COLLECTING AND PRESERVING SPECIMENS. 



MANY treatises and papers have been written on the methods 

 of collecting and preserving zoological specimens ; the more 

 important of which are enumerated below. Space prevents 

 giving the various operations in detail in this volume, but it 

 is hoped that the directions given, although concise, will 

 prove explicit and valuable. For more extended accounts of 

 the methods employed in collecting and preserving specimens, 

 the student is referred to the following works : 



Boitarcl Manuel du Naturaliste Preparateur. Paris, 1853. 



T. Brown The Taxidermist's Manual. London, 1859. 



Elliott Coues Field Ornithology. Salem, 1874. 



J. B. Davies Naturalists' Guide. Edinburgh, 1853. 



G. Dimmock Directions for the Collecting of Coleoptera. Spring- 

 field, Mass., 1872. 



J. H. Emerton Life on the Seashore. Salem, 1880. 



James Lewis Directions for Collecting Land and Fresh Water 

 Shells (American Naturalist, vol. ii, 1 868). 



C. J. Maynard Naturalists' Guide. Salem, 1870. 



A. S. Packard, jr. Directions for Collecting and Preserving In- 

 sects (Smithsonian Institution). 



Smithsonian Directions for Collectors. 



W. Swainson Taxidermy. London, 1851. 



