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ages belonging- to my three guns, and enough ammunition to 

 last a month for ordinary shooting. 



Another small box, made of ash, one-quarter of an inch thick, 

 and divided into four compartments, contained an assortment 

 of knives, labels, and small tools (see list below), and was in 

 every way mulium inparvo. Both these boxes had their places 

 in the chest, and my guns, each in its own box-case, were pro- 

 vided for in the same receptacle. I have had made for col- 

 lectors going out from the National Museum nearly a dozen 

 tool-boxes in exact duplication of the original mentioned above, 

 and I can confidently recommend both it and the ammunition- 

 box as serving their purposes most satisfactorily. 



Since my outfit for the East Indies proved very satisfactory, 

 and with one or two additions is precisely what I should take 

 were I to go again on a similar expedition, I give below a full 

 list of its contents. The additions I should make would be a 

 Winchester 7-shot repeating rifle, calibre 45-75, with the neces- 

 sary ammunition, a double-barrelled breech-loading gun, No. 12, 

 and possibly a wooden tank 2 feet x 2 feet x 2 feet, with a 

 screw top, for tho preservation of mammal skins in a salt and 

 alum bath. This last addition is rendered necessary by the 

 fact that I have adopted a different method of preserving skins 

 from that I had followed up to that time. Instead of drying all 

 skins as I did then, I now preserve the majority of them in a 

 wet state, and keep them so, except such as are desired as skins 

 for study, and not for mounting. The apparatus necessary for 

 collecting insects will be described in the section devoted to 

 work of that class. 



OUTFIT FOR GENERAL COLLECTING, 



Vertebrates and Invertebrates, both Large and Small, Dry and in Spirits, and on a 



Large Scale. 



1 Agassiz tank (copper), in wooden box, for alcoholics. 



1 chest of black walnut, iron-bound, to contain all the articles enumerated below: 



1 Maynard rifle, two barrels, calibre 40, 40 pounds shot, assorted sizes. 



and 4.VS5 10 pounds Maynard bullets. 



1 double barrelled breech-loading smooth- 1,000 Berdan primers. 



bore gun. No. 10, in case ($:)0). 12 pounds Orange ducking powder. 



1 Maynard shot-gun, No. 16. 



1 Smith & Wesson revolver, cal. 32. 



1 cartridge-belt an-I cartridge-bag. 



00 pounds arsenical soap. 

 15 pounds dry arsenic. 



1 dozen large skinning-knives. 



