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INDEX. 



Fish casting, 183 



Fishes and reptiles, preservative 

 fluids for, 78 



Camphorated fluid for preserv- 

 ing, 81 



Colouring skin of, 207 



Fins of, to repair, 210 

 Fish, cast in plaster, &c., 173 



Large, to mount, 172 



Mounting, 173 



Paper casts of, 186 



Pike, to set up, 173 



Preserving. 173 



Skinning, 173 



Skins, relaxing of, 181 



Stufiing for, 181 



To prepare, for casting, 183 



Wire backbone for, 178 

 "Fitting up" with grasses, ferns, 

 &c., 242 



With mosses, 244 



With shell?, seaweeds, &c., 245 

 Fixing rockwork, 247 

 Flour paste, 88 

 Flowers, feather, 2G3 

 Flur, or play- stick, 3G 

 Foliage modelled as an accessory, 



25G 

 Forceps, 61 

 Forcing moths, 309 

 Fox, to preserve and skin, 128 

 Foxes' pads, 262 

 Fox's tongue, to pickle, 134 

 French method of mounting large 



animals, 147 

 Frog, to skin, 190 

 Frogs and monkeys for comic 



groups, 253 

 Frost, snow, and ice, 216 

 Fruit in plaster, modelling, 207-217 

 Furniture of the Leicester Museum, 

 318 



G. 



Gannet or Solan goose, 49 

 Gardner's preservative, 70 

 General principles for arranging 

 museums, 343 

 Eemarks on artistic mount- 

 ing, 249 



General remarks on preserving, 84 

 Gin or box trap, 42 

 Glade nets, 37 

 Glass eyes, 211 



For setting insects, 279 



Shades for birds, &c., 235 

 Glue, best, 228 



Marine, 228 



Mould for modelling, 213 

 Glycerine, 230 

 Goadby's Solution, 80 

 Grasses, drying and colouring, 207 



Ferns, &c., for fitting up, 242 

 Grease and mites in insects, 290 

 Grouping animals artistically, 254 

 Groups, comic, 253 



Mounting, 252 



Of birds and young, 256 



Special labelling of, 339 

 Guanches',the,mode of embalming, 8 

 Gulls, bait for, 39 



To decoy, 49 



H. 



Hard stuffing for mammals, 137 

 Haunts of insects, 291 



Of swallow tail butterfly, 292 

 Hawking, 30 

 Hawks, to trap, 42 

 Head, horned, to cast, 153 



Of bull, to mount, 141 

 Heads, blocking, 162 



Of animals, shields for, 238 

 Hedgehogs, to mount, 150 

 Herodotus on embalming, 1 

 Hill sliding net, 271 

 Hints on snake bites, 190 

 Hollow eyes, 211 

 Hollowing out casts, 157 

 Horned toads, to preserve, 191 

 Horns, to polish, 207, 223 

 Humming bird, relaxing skin of,, 

 202 



I. 



Ice, frost, and snow, 216 

 Imitating blood, 216 

 Insects, book boxes for, 287 

 Breeding cage, 309 



