INDEX. 



349 



Insect's, cabinets for, 287 



Collecting boxes for, 283 



¥ggs of, searching frr, 310 



Glass for setting, 279 



Grease and mites in, 290 



Haunts of, 291 



Pins for, 289 



Postal boxes for, 283 



Setting, 274 



To collect and preserve, 264 



To destroy, nostrums, 228 



To kill, 273 



To store, 286 



Works on collecting and pre- 

 serving, 265 

 Inserting eyes in the specimen, 121 

 Intestines, cleansing the, 7 

 Intoxicants, or poisons, 24 

 Invertebrates, arrangement of, 339 



In the Liverpool Museum, 340 



J. 



Jewellery, objects of natural his- 

 tory for, 261 



K. 



Killing and setting beetles, 281 



Insect?, 273 



Lepidoptera, 273 

 Kingfishers, nets for, 38 

 Knives for skinning, 52 



Dissecting, 57 

 Knot; on bird brace, 36 



Label for birds when skinned, 104 



Labelling of special groups, 339 

 On the new system, 337 

 On the old system, 335 



Landrail, or corncrake, to decoy, 57 



Lanterns for sugaring moths, 302 



Lapwing, to decoy, 39 



Larvae, cage for collecting, 307 

 To collect and rear, 306 



Leather, conversion of skins into, 

 10 

 Dressing skins or furs as, 192 

 Softening skins or furs as, 192 



Leather, to stick to wood, 228 

 Leaves, skeleton, 20V, 221 

 Lepidoptera, killing, 273 

 Lips of mammals, adjusting, 136 

 Lithocolle, for sealing bottles, 83 

 Lizards, to preserve, 191 

 Lobsters, 223 



Claws, to makeup, 263 

 Luting for stoppers, 83 



M. 



Making birdlime, 27 



Making up lobster claws, 263 



Skeletons of animals, 207, 220 

 " Making up " from pieces, 199, 



205 

 Mammals, colouring bare skins of, 

 207 

 Hard stuffing for, 137 

 Skinning and preserving, 128 

 Mammal's skin, to preserve as a 



"flat," 197 

 Mantelpiece screens, 260 

 Marine glue, 228 

 Marten, to trap, 41 

 Mechanical calls for birds, 47 

 Medlock's and Bailey's Preserva- 

 tive, 74 

 Mending glass of an aquarium, 248 

 Method of setting clap-net, 30 

 Methylated spirits, 79 

 Mice or rabbits, roughly stuffed, 



150 

 Microscopic objects, preparation of, 



227 

 Mildew and damp in specimens, 



231 

 Mites and grease in insect?, 290 

 Modelled foliage as an accessory, 

 256 

 Screens as an ornament, 259 

 Modelling animals, 151 

 Cement for, 115 

 Fruit in plaster, 207, 217 

 Sea rocks, 241 



Tongues, muscles, in composi- 

 tion, 211 

 Trees, 242 

 Models in clay, 214 

 Moles, to mount, 150 



