INDEX 



459 



Modelling a caterpillar, 291 



clay, 77 



clover, 325 



the coltsfoot, 335 



compositions, 77, 80 



the daisy, 343 



the dead nettle, 349 



fishes, 241, 243, 248, 272 



the flowering rush, 352 



fossils, 267, 294 



a frog, 279 



glues, 268 



the hawthorn, 331 



the honeysuckle, 333 



the lesser celandine, 317 



a lizard, 279 



the sea-aster, 336 



the self-heal, 346 



a sepia, 289 



tools, ,23 



used in plant-modelling, 302 



the violet, 323 



wax, 79, 82, 83, 303, 304 

 Japan, 84 



a wolf-fish, 255 

 Models in metal, 281 

 Molgula, to narcotise and kill, 45 

 MoUusca, to kill, 62 



lamellibranch, to narcotise and kill, 29 



to preserve, 46 

 Mop brush, 22 

 Mosses as accessories, 389 

 Moths, to cleanse, 63 

 Moulds, glue, 239, 241 



gutta-percha, 243 



in metal, 281 



ordinary wax, 243 



parafiin wax, 243 



piece, in plaster, 239 



waste, in plaster, 237 

 Mounting of animals, 380 

 Mounts for enclosing specimens, 41 1 

 MUUer's fluid, 53 



Naphtha, rectified, for snakes and frogs, 



37 

 Narcotisation by means of tobacco-smoke, 



61 

 Narcotising mediums, 25 

 Needle, skin, 22 



Nemerteans, to narcotise and kill, 44, 62 

 Nemertes, 44 

 Nests, the collecting of, 102 



Nicotin, 60 

 Nippers, cutting, 21 

 Non-poisonous preservative powder, 74 

 soap, 73 



Obelia, to fix, 41 



Octopods, to kill and preserve, 37, 45 



Oil-colours, medium for, 94 



Oils and varnishes, 93 



Olindias miilhrii, to fix and preserve, 46 



Organisms, delicate, to kill and preserve, 



43. 44 

 gelatinous, to fix and preserve, 30, 47, 



49. S3 

 Origin and progress of taxidermy, I 

 Osmic acid, 48 



and chromic acids, 51 

 Owen's fluid, 42 



Paper model of wolf-fish, 255 

 Paper process, direct, 248 



pulped, 260 

 Paraffin wax moulds, 243 

 Paranthus, to kill, 38 

 Paste, 87 



flour (oil), 261 



flour (water), 260 



starch, 88 

 Pennaria, to kill and preserve, 40 

 PennatulidK, to fix and preserve, S i 

 Peron's lithocoUe, 85 

 Physalia caravella, to kill and preserve, 



40 

 Physophora, to harden, 33 

 Picric and chromic acids, 52 

 Pictorial groups of mammals, birds, etc., 



396 

 Pigments, 88 

 Pipe-clay, 77 

 Plant-modelling, general instructions in, 



313 

 Plants, preservatives for, 39, 42, 43, 58 

 Plaster casts of undercut objects, 236 



moulds, 237, 239 



putty, 81 

 Pliers, 21 



Podocoryne, to kill, 40 

 Polia, to narcotise, 44 

 Polycarpa; to narcotise and kill, 45 

 Polycystina, to presei-ve, 41 

 Polythalamia, to preserve, 41 

 Polyzoa, to preserve, 46 



