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TAXIDEKMY AND ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTING. 



(10 inches long, 7 inches wide, and 4 inches deep) which con- 

 tains the following- : 



1 roll silk court-plaster (about 1 yard). 



6 curved surgeon's needles and silk 



thread. 



4 ounces spirits of turpentine. 

 4 ounces tincture of arnica. 



2 ounces syrup of ipecac. 

 1 ounce paregoric. 



1 ounce ammonia. 



2 ounces castor oil. 



1 pint lime-water and linseed oil. 

 1 pint best brandy. 



1 bottle Collis Browne's chlorodyne. 



% ounce quinine. 



1 package Epsom salts. 



1 package senna leaves. 



1 package carbonate of soda. 



2-ounce bottle of Squibb's diarrhoea mirfc- 



ure. 



1 box Beecham's pills. 

 1 small measuring-glass. 

 1 piece of small rubber tube, a foot long. 

 12 doses of tartar emetic. 



The above makes a formidable showing, but the whole stock 

 costs only about three dollars and fifty cents, and the box, with 

 lock and key, about one dollar more. I have lately added to 

 this outfit a most valuable and helpful little book, entitled " Till 

 the Doctor Comes," by George H. Hope (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 

 New York), which to any traveller or country dweller is worth 

 twice its weight in gold. Fortunately, however, it costs only 

 fifty cents, and no one need be without it. 



While a traveller or hunter should never drink brandy or 

 whiskey as a beverage, it is a most excellent thing to have in 

 many cases of sickness or accident, when a powerful stimulant 

 is necessary. Above all things, however, which go farthest 

 toward preserving the life of the traveller against diseases and 

 death by accident, and which every naturalist especially should 

 take with him wherever he goes, are habits of strict temperance. 

 In the tropics nothing is so deadly as the drinking habit, for 

 it speedily paves the way to various kinds of disease which are 

 always charged to the account of " the accursed climate." If a 

 temperate man falls ill or meets with an accident, his system 

 responds so readily to remedies and moderate stimulants that 

 his chances for recovery are a hundred per cent, better than 

 those of the man whose constitution has been undermined by 

 strong drink. 



There are plenty of men who will say that in the tropics a 

 little liquor is necessary, " a good thing," etc. ; but let me tell 

 you it is no such thing, and if necessary I could pile up a 



