INDEX 



ACANTHOMBTRM, to fix, 33 



Acari, to prevent, 36 



Accessories in the mounting of animals, 



389 



Acetic acid, 46 



bichloride of mercury and, 39 

 and chromic acids, 50 

 Acineta fatida, to fix and preserve, 49 

 Acifenser, skull of, to preserve, 34 

 Actinia cari^ to fix, 40 



equina, to fix, 40 

 Actinozoa, to kill, 38 

 Adamsia rondektii, to narcotise, kill, and 



preserve, 61, 62 

 ^ginopsis, to fix and preserve, 51 

 yEginota, to fix and preserve, 51 

 Agalma, to harden, 33 

 Aiptasia, small, to kill and preserve, 38 

 Alcohol, 27, 30 

 absolute, 27, 28 



and sea-water, 29 

 dehydration of, 27, 28 

 95 per cent., 27 

 90 per cent., 27, 29 

 85 per cent., 28 

 75 per cent., 30 

 70 per cent., 28, 31 

 50 per cent. , 28 

 methyl-, 30 

 one-third, 28, 33 

 to purify, 31 

 Ranvier's, 33 

 rectified, 28, 30 

 and bichloride of mercury, 35 

 chloral hydrate, 34 

 chromic acid, 37 

 glycerin, 33, 34 

 hydrochloric acid, 37 



Alcohol and iodine, 37 



au tiers, 33 

 Alcoholic solution of mercury, 35, 36 

 Alcoholised sea-water, 29 

 Alcool al terzo, 33 

 Alcyonaria, to fix and preserve, 50 

 Algas, preservative for, 43 

 Alum, 56 



bichloride of mercury and, 42 

 Amphibians, the casting and modelling 

 of, 279 



the skinning of, 226 



preservative for, 54 

 Amphioxus, to fix, kill, and preserve, 29, 



30. 46 

 Anemonia sulcata, to fix and preserve, 52 

 Anilin oil, 28 

 Animals, marine, to kill with water, 62 



the mounting of, 380 

 Annelid larvae, to preserve, 41 

 Antedon phalangium, to fix and kill, 32 



rosacea, to fix and kill, 32 

 Anthea ceretts (see Anemonia sulcata^, 52 

 Apple-blossom, the modelling of, 327 

 Arseniated soap, Swainson's, 69 

 Arsenical and mercurial soap, 71 



soap, Becoeur's, 68 



soaps and powders, 64 

 Arthropoda, to kill, 60 

 Ascidians, to kill and preserve, 45, 50 

 Aulacanthidce, to fix, 33 

 Awls, 23 



Balanaglossus, to narcotise, 29 

 B&oeur's arsenical soap, 68 

 Beeswax, 82 



Beetles, preservative for, 63 

 Benzoline, 63 



