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APPENDIX. 



Recipes for Dressing* Skins. 

 ( 1 ) . — Arsenica I soap. 



Arsenious acid ... ... ... ... 4 ozh. 



Soap ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 ozb. 



Carbonate of potash ... ... ... 4 drams. 



Camphor ... ... ... ... ... 1 oz. 



"Water ... ... ... ... ... 3 ozb. 



Cost of ingredients about 2s. 6d. 



Mix under a gentle heat. When used form a lather with 

 any spirituous liquor and apply with a brush. 



(2). — A substitute for the above, — Alum 3 parts, common salt 

 1 part, pure water 24 parts, by weight. 



Eecipes for Preservative Fluids. 

 ("3) . Methylated spirit, at 50 deg. over proof ; price in 

 Adelaide 7s. per gallon ; may be diluted with an equal quantity 

 of water. 



(4) . — Wickersheimer 's preservative fluid — 

 Alum ... ... ... 10 drams ^ 



Common salt .. . ... 1\ drams Dissolve in 300 



Saltpetre ... ... 1'2 drams I drams of boiling 



Carbonate of potash... 6 drams water. 

 Arsenious acid ... 1 dram ) 



After cooling and filtering, add to every ten pints of this 

 solution four pints of glycerine and one pint of methylated 

 spirit. Cost of ingredients about 5s. per gallon. 



Specimens that have been immersed for some days or weeks, according 

 to their size, will keep out of the solution, and will remain plastic. 



(5). — Qoadby's solution, a substitute for spirit, may be em- 

 ployed for soft-bodied animals, without shells or bones — 



Add boiling water 

 two quarts, well 

 stir together, and 



filter. 



Salt 4 ozs. 



Alum ... ... ... 2 ozs. 



Corrosive sublimate ... 4 grains 



(6). — Glycerine. — The disadvantageous property of corru- 

 gating and decolorising animal structures possessed by spirit is 

 obviated by the use of glycerine. Eetail price, 4s. 6d. per lb. 



(7). — An aqueous solution of alum, in the proportion of alum 

 1 part, pure water 16 parts, preserves animal substances very 

 well for a short time ; all the parts retaining their natural 

 conditions to some extent, except the bones and shells, which 

 are acted on by its acidity. Retail price, 9d. per lb. 



(8). — Strong salt and water may be used in the absence of any 

 of the above, for quite temporary purposes. 



