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Beadwork and other articles of that nature can also- 

 be prettily displayed in a group or pattern on the 

 wall or each set encased in flat glazing which can be 

 hung up. 



Though heads and horns have to follow the con- 

 ventional method of mounting, there is no limit to 

 the ways in which other trophies can be displayed, 

 and much individual taste can be exercised in the 

 making up and grouping, hence the foregoing does not 

 by any means exhaust the uses to which a collection 

 can be put for decorative and ornamental purposes, 

 but it is hoped will give some data to go upon. 



Scientific Collections. — Collecting for scientific 

 purposes is by no means a difficult matter, requiring 

 only care and above all accuracy ; but, in fact, if the 

 sportsman^'is not prepared to do the thing according to 

 the modern ideas, he had far better not touch it at all. 



This modern and accurate method has been fully 

 treated under Chapter VI, and it is also fuil\- explained 

 in the "Hints to Travellers" published by the Royal 

 Geographical Society and in the handbooks published 

 by the British Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington. 



The intending collector would, however, be well 

 advised not to attempt to handle all the subjects 

 discussed in the various works, but to confine himself 

 to one or two only, such as birds, mammals, insects, 

 or reptiles, and so in a sense specialize and be able 

 to bring back a more or less perfect series of one 



