INDEX. 



351 



Pike, to setup, 173 



Pins for insects, 289 



Pitfall for large and fierce animals, 



23 

 Plaster casts or wax snbatituted 



for loose stuffing, 151 

 Play-bird for birdcatching, 35 

 Play -stick, or flur, 36 

 Pliers, 58 



Plovers, or snipes, to catch, 19 

 Poisons, or intoxicants, 24 

 Polecats and -weasels, to trap, 41 

 Polishing horns, 207, 223 



Shells, 207, 224 



Stones, 225 



Tortoiseshell, 224 

 Postal boxes for insects, 283 

 Potash, bichromate of, 229 



Permanganate of, 230 

 Powder, Browne's preservative, 71, 



72 

 Powders and soaps for preserving, 

 63 



Preservative, Bullock's, 71 

 Preparation of microscopic objects, 

 227 



Of mummies, 3 

 Preparing fish for casting, 183 

 Preservation of animal tissue, 229 



Of ophthalmic specimens, 75 

 Preservative fluids for fishes and 

 reptiles, 73 



Fluids for mollusca, 82 



For embalming, 3 



Gardner's, 70 



Medlock's and Bailey's, 74 



Powder, Browne's, 71, 72 



Powder, Bullock's, 71 



Priestly Smith's, 75 



Soap, Browne's, 68 



Soaps, powders, &c., 63 



Solution, Browne's, 80 



Wash, 73, 78 

 Preserving a chameleon, 191 



And collecting insects, 264 



And skinning birds, 91 



And skinning mammals, 128 



Birds by carbolic acid, 230 



Caterpillars, 219 



Fish, 173 



Fishes, Moller's solution, 81 



Preserving, general remarks on, 84 

 Liquid, Wickersheimer's, 74, 



75 

 Lizards, 191 

 Mammal's skin as a " flat," 



197 

 Eeptiles, 188 

 Spiders, 207, 218 

 Preventing mildew, 213 

 Priestly Smith's preservative, 75 

 Ptarmigan, to trap, 21 

 Pup83, digging for, 308 

 Purple Emperor butterfly, haunts 

 of, 292 



Quails, to decoy, 48 



E. 



Eabbits or mice roughly stuffed, 



150 

 Eays, to cast, 187 

 Eearing and collecting larvse, 306 

 Eeaumur on Taxidermy, 10 

 Eecipes for arsenical soaps, 63 



For preserving animal tissue, 

 229 

 Eedwings and fieldfares, to trap, 



21 

 Eefusing unsuitable objects for 



museums, 344 

 Eelaxing fish skins, 181 



Skins, 199 

 Eemoving blood from feathers, 204 

 Eeptiles and fishes, preservative 

 fluids for, 78 

 To mount, 188 

 To preserve, 188 

 To skin, 188 

 Eestoring shrunken parts by a wax 



process. 207 

 Eing net for collecting insects, 



268 

 Else and progress of Taxidermy, 1 

 Eock fowling, 39 

 Eock-work, casing up with, 239 



Fixing, 247 

 Eouyer on the preparation of mum- 

 mies, 4 



