PEESEEVATIYE LIQTJIDS, WASHES, ETC. 77 



taxidermist. Calvert was tlie cliief if not tlie only maker of tlie 

 pure preparation, wliiclL is sold in ilb. or lib. bottles in a solid 

 crystalline state, as if it were frozen. The bottle, with tlie 

 stopper temporarily removed, must be plunged in boiling water 

 to melt out as mucli as is required, to wbicli must be added 

 many times its weight or quantity of water. This diluted 

 preparation will be found of infinite service in tlie bot summer 

 montlis for pouring in the " gentle " infested throats or wounds 

 of mammals and birds preparatory to skinning. Diluted and 

 poured on a little burnt alum or pure tannin, and the mixture 

 well shaken together, it forms an exceedingly strong preparation, 

 as well as a valuable one, for painting the noses or pickling the 

 tongues of animals before or after skinning. Two strengths 

 of this will be found very useful. Thus : 



No. 15. — Oarholic Wash, No. 1 (for Mammals). 

 Glacial carbolic acid, 2oz. | Burnt alum or pure tannin, los. 



Water, 1 pint. 



Keep in stoppered bottle labelled "Poison," and shake up 

 before using. 



No. 16.— Carbolic Wash, No. 2 (for Birds). 

 Glacial carbolic acid, loz. | Water, 1 pint. 



Keep in stoppered bottle labelled " Poison," and shake before 

 using. Carbolic acid is a caustic poison, and therefore must 

 be handled carefully. 



It sometimes happens that the taxidermist, if in a large way 

 of business, is called upon to destroy the insects infesting, it 

 may be, the entire collection of heads or skins hanging in some 

 gentleman's hall. No better or more effective way of doing 

 this is to be found than plunging them entirely in a bath 

 composed of : 



No. 17.— Carholic Acid Wash, No. 3 (''Poison"). 

 Carbolic acid, lib. I Sal ammoniac, ioz. 



Corrosive sublimate, 3oz. | Pure tannin, 4oz. 



Hot water, 4 galls. 



Mix this up in some out-house, or in the open air away from 

 the house, if a fine day ; and when the mixture is cold plunge 

 the heads or skins in, holding the former by the horns, and 

 stirring the latter about vsdth a stick; in fact, allowing the 

 mixture to touch the hands as little as possible. 



