CONTENTS. 



Introduction ......3 



§ I. General Remarks • . , 5 



List of apparatus useful for travelling parties . . • .12 

 § II. Instruments, preservative materials, etc. . . » • .16 



1. Implements for skinning . , . . . ■ ,16 



2. Preservatives ...>•*•.. 16 

 § III. Skinning and stuffing animals . . > » . » .17 



1. Birds 17 



2. Mammals «... 21 



3. Reptiles , .... 22 



4. Fishes 23 



§ IV. Preserving in liquids, and by other modes besides skinning . 25 



1. General Remarks . . . . r - r . 25 



2. Vertebrates 27 



3. Invertebrates .........28 



§ V. Embryos . 29 



§ VI. Nests and eggs .......... 30 



§ VII. Preparation of skeletons ....•••. 31 



§ VIII. Plants . 32 



§ IX. Minerals and fossils ..,.».... 35 



§ X. Minute microscopical organisms ...... 36 



§ XI. Marine invertebrates 37 



PHILADELPHIA: 

 COLLIiN'S, PRINTER, 70.3 JAYNE STREET. 



