CHAPTER I. 
COLLECTING AND PRESERVING SPECIMENS. 
Many treatises and papers have been written on the methods 
of collecting and preserving zoological specimens ; the more 
important of which are enumerated below. Space prevents 
giving the various operations in detail in this volume, but it 
is hoped that the directions given, although concise, will 
prove explicit and valuable. For more extended accounts of 
the methods employed in collecting and preserving specimens, 
the student is referred to the following works : 
Boitard — Manuel du Naturaliste Préparateur. Paris, 1853. 
T. Brown — The Taxidermist’s Manual. London, 1859. 
Elliott Coues — Field Ornithology. Salem, 1874. 
J. B. Davies — Naturalists’ Guide. Edinburgh, 1853. 
G. Dimmock — Directions for the Collecting of Coleoptera. Spring- 
field, Mass., 1872. 
J. H. Emerton — Life on the Seashore. Salem, 1880. 
James Lewis — Directions for Collecting Land and Fresh Water 
Shells (American Naturalist, vol. ii, 1868). 
C. J. Maynard — Naturalists’ Guide. Salem, 1870. 
A. S. Packard, jr.— Directions for Collecting and Preserving In- 
sects (Smithsonian Institution). 
Smithsonian Directions for Collectors. 
W. Swainson — Taxidermy. London, 1851. 
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