8 FOREWORD. 



a process discovered while experimenting in mounting 

 botanical specimens. 



Do you like scrap-books, and to have at hand a paste 

 which never decays, which you can compound at will? 

 Such a paste, I know by many years of home use, is a 

 valuable household article, and here, for the first time, I 

 make it known: 



One-half ounce of corrosive sublimate dissolved in one 

 pint of alcohol. This amount will last a long time for 

 home use, and should be kept tightly corked in a bottle 

 on which the label for poison, furnished by the drug 

 store, is pasted. This bottle should be kept by itself in 

 a place not likely to be disturbed. 



About one tablespoonful of this solution — ^the amouat 

 may be guessed at in pouring — stirred into a pint of well- 

 boiled flour starch will make a paste which will keep 

 indefinitely, unless exposed to air, when it will dry up. 

 The heat of summer will not sour or spoil it. Should it 

 freeze in winter, its quality remains unimpaired. When 

 used for paste, denatured alcohol may be supplied. No 

 metal should be brought in contact with the paste, as 

 corrosion will result. 



K. D. S. 



