456 



TAXIDERMY AND MODELLING 



Bene ovata, to fix and preserve, 5 1 

 Bichloride of mercury, 28, 38 



and acetic acid, 39 



and alcohol, 35 



and alum, 42 



and chromic acid, 40 



ether and, 37 



and potassium nitrate, 43 



and sea-water, 39 



and sulphate of copper, 41 

 Bichromate of potash (see Potassium 



bichromate') 

 Bills and legs of birds, the colouring of, 

 209 



the waxing of, 210 

 Birds, the binding of, 191 



the collecting of, 97 



with modelled foliage, 298 



the modelling and setting-up of, by 

 scientific principles, 194 



pictorial groups of, 396 



the setting-up of, with hard bodies, 1 84 

 with soft bodies and wires, 183 

 without wires, 182 



the skinning and setting-up of, 166, 

 169 

 Birds' "skins," the making of, 1 79 



preservatives for, 36, 48, 64, 74 



the relaxing of, 207 

 Bisulphate of carbon, 59 

 Blood, to represent, 417 

 Bluebell, the modelling of the, 367 

 Bolina, to fix and preserve, 51-52 

 Boracic acid, 56, 57 

 Borax, 56 

 Brace, 22 



Brains, preservation of, 55 

 Brain-scoop, 20 

 Brisinga, to fix, 29 

 Brush, " mop," 22 

 BuUock^s preservative powder, 72 

 Btmodes gemmaceus, to kill and preserve, 



44 

 rigidus, to kill and preserve, 44 

 Butterflies, to cleanse, 36, 63 

 pictorial groups of, 409 



Calberla's liquid, 33 



Calf-kid, the making of, 164 



Calipers, 22 



Callianira, to fix and preserve, 41, 51, 52 



Carbolic acid, 47 



washes for mammals, birds, etc., 48 



Carbon, bisulphide of, 59 

 Carinella, to narcotise, 44 

 Carmarina, to fix and preserve, 51 

 Cartilage, preservation of, 34 

 Carton Pierre, 264 



Cases and mounts for enclosing speci- 

 mens, 410 

 Casting-box, 23 1 

 Casting-dress, 295 

 Casting from a caterpillar, 291 



fishes, 232 



a frog, 279 



a lizard, 279 



a sepia, 286 



a tiger, 129 

 Casts, plaster, of undercut objects, 236 

 Cat-fish, the casting and modelling of, 



255 

 Celandine, the lesser, modelling of, 317 

 Cements, 77 



Cement, Symington's, 86 

 Cephalopods, egg clusters of, to fix, 50 



to narcotise, 45 



preservation of, 34, 45, 46 

 Ceratodus forsteri, preservation of, 53-54 

 Cerebratulus, to narcotise, 44 

 Cestus, to fix and preserve, 51, 52 

 Chatognatha, to fix, 41 

 Chevreulius, to narcotise and kill, 45 

 Chloral hydrate, 44 



alcohol and, 34 

 Chloroform, 60 

 Chromic acid, 49 



and acetic acid, 50 



alcohol and, 37 



bichloride of mercury and, 40 

 I and osmic acid, 5 1 



and picric acid, 52 

 Chromodoris, to narcotise and kill, 32 

 Cladonema, to kill, 40 

 ClavcUella (see Eleutheria), 40 

 Clay, common, 79 



fire-, 79 



modelling-, 77 



pipe-, 77 

 Clover, the modelling of, 325 

 Collecting, 95 



Collozoum, to kill and preserve, 37 

 Colours, oil-, water-, and powder-, 88 

 Coltsfoot, the modelling of, 335 

 Comatula (see Antedoi^, 32 

 Copper, sulphate of, and bichloride of 

 mercury, 41 



