THE MUSEUM. 



L A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Research in Natural Science. 



Vol. V. 



ALBION, N. Y., AUGUST 15, 1899 



No. 10 



THE MUSEUM ^^^ plastmn or under shell ;ind the 



^ ."^l , carapa-\ or upper shell. Consequent- 



A Monthly Magazine devoted to Ornithology, ly a saw is re<]uired and the one best 



Oology, Mollusca, Echinodermata, |j(ted for the purpose is a surgeon's 



Mineralogy and Allied bone Saw with an adjustable back. 



^!!!!^^^l! These saws are sharp, strong and 



Walter F. Webb, Editor and Manager thin-bladed, three important requisites 



Alh'n N Y '^'^ ^^'* work. A large skinninj.; knife 



, ^„^.,^,^,J^„,^~,„v,„„^„ — a butcher knife is the proper thing 



Correspondence and Items of lnt«rest on above top- „_j „ rartilatrp knifp ttp hnfh npr" 



Ics, as well as notes on the various Museums of the ^"^ "^ cariuage Kniie are DOin neC- 



Worlil— \1e«-s fr.mi .same, discoveries relaUve to the essarv A Dair of boiie snins will be 



han.llInK and keeping of Natural History material, csbdiy. n. pdii ui uoiic; biiipi will ue 



descriptive hablt.s of various species, are solicited found USeful, aS alsO a Small pair of 



from all. . , i i , 



Make articles as brief as possible and as free from SClSSOrs; and a SCraper, though not 



technical terms as the subjects will allow. All letters ,, .,, ^, , 



will be promptly an.swered. really necessary, will greatly hasten 



?^^S^^7I^J^^^^^^o"n " |he work of cleaning the meat and fat 



trom the mside oi the shell and some 



single Subscription oOc per amium r .1. , t-i 1,1 , 



sampiecopies .tc each ot the bones. 1 hcse are all the tools 



Xdvertising^RATeT' required, though curved scissors and 



^ . .. „, , some other luxuries often prove of 



5 cents per Nonpareil line each insertion. Twelve ■ , • 



lines to the inch. value. In making up the skin a stout 



Cash must accompany all orders. ,, j .1 j 11 l j j 



Remittances should be made by Draft. Express or needle and thread Will be needed. 



Post Omce Order 1 .r Registered Letter. iTr.-^u tU „« t *„„!„ „,J 1 „» f 



Vnu.^ed f. s. PosLige Stamps of any denomination With these lew tools and plenty ot 



accepted for small amounts. persevetance and determination to suc- 



MUSEUMPUB.co.. ^^^j ^^^ Operator may be sure of 



ALBION, OHLEANSCC. N.Y. j u 



good results. 



Sni'Tfd at Atdion pott-office <u Mcond-clms mail matter \Yg ^^iH suppose that A dead Speci- 



men of Tcstiido, two or three feet in 

 How to Prepare a Scientific Skin length, lies before us. Put the animal 

 of a Giant Tortoise. ^^ jts ^ack and using the large skin- 

 In using the name Giant Tortoise ping knife commence at the middle 

 the writer refers to the extremely toe and cut through the skin of the 

 large and rare tortoise of the Galapa- under side of the fore-leg up to the 

 gos group west of Ecuador. The fol- joint where it joins the plastron. Be 

 lowing directions for properly prepar- sure and keep the cut on the inside of 

 ing a scientific skin of one of these the leg all the way up so that it will 

 animals will, however, apply with not show when the animal is mounted, 

 slight variations in different cases, to Dq the same on the other fore-leg. 

 any member of the Chelonian family.* Jhen commencing where this cut 

 First as to the necessary tools. In meets the plastron and this point 

 the Galapagos Island tortoise there is should be well underneathj, saw 

 no easily separated division between through the under shell straight across 



; to the middle point of where the skin 



* In the larM salt water turtles the open- „/ .1 u- j 1 ;„;„„ .u„ „i„,.<., 



ins ciD all bf,m.-i.le^ith the knife. -Th.-de of the hind leg joins the plastron, 

 scripilons (jiven for .'kinning the leg.s of the Divide the skin of the hind legs keep- 

 tortoise apply equ illy well to the tlipp.-M of ing the cut in the middle line of the 

 the sen turtles. ° 



