INDEX 



35a 



Sticking leather to wood, 228 



Stones, to polish, 225 



Stoppers, luting for, 83 



Storage and drying of specimens, 



247 

 Storing insects, 286 

 Stuffing a snake, 189 



A specimen, 105 



For fish, 180 



Iron, 61 

 Sturgeons, to cast, 187 

 Sabstitutes for loose stuffing, 151 

 Sugaring drum, 299 



Moths, 294 



Moths, chip boxes for, 302 



Moths, lanterns for, 302 



Net, 273 

 System for arranging collections of 



vertebrates, 324 

 Swallow tail butterfly, haunts of, 

 292 



T. 



Taxidermy (proper), commence- 

 ment of, 10 

 Tender skins, treatment of, 201 

 Terns, to decoy, 49 

 Thrushes, decoy whistle for, 48 

 Toads, horned, to preserve, 191 

 To clean corals, 230 

 Toling ducks, 50 

 Tools for skinning mammals, 134 



For taxidermy, 55 

 To preserve wattles and combs of 



gallinaceous birds, 209 

 To repair fins of fishes, 210 

 Tortoiseshell, to polish, 224 

 Tortoise, to skin, 191 

 Tow forceps, 61 

 Trap, box, 42 



Brick, to set, 18 



Cage. 43 



Gin, 42 



Nightingale, 43 



Sieve, to set, 18 

 Trapping- and decoying animals, 

 17 



Birds with birdlime, 26 



Bullfinches, 43 



Trapping hawks, 42 

 Lapwing, 39 

 Martens, 41 

 Plovers or snipes, 19 

 Polecats and weasels, 41 

 Ptarmigan, 21 

 Redwings and fieldfares, 21 

 Wheatears and ortolans, 19 

 Woodcocks or wild ducks, 37 



Traps, figure of 4, 24 

 Steel, 40 



Treatment of tender skins, 201 



Trees, to model, 242 



Turtles, to skin, 191 



U. 



Unsuitable objects for museums, 

 344 



Vertebrates, elastic system for 

 collections of, 329 

 Pictorial arrangement of, 316 

 System for arranging collec- 

 tions of, 324 

 Virgin cork for rockwork model,. 

 240 



W. 



Wash, carbolic, for birds, 77 

 Carbolic, for mammals, 77 

 Preservative, 73, 78 



Washing skins, 196 



Water and waves, 217 



Waterton on skinning and mount- 

 ing birds, 111 



Waterton" s solution of corrosive 

 sublimate, 69 



Wattles and combs of gallinaceous 

 birds, to preserve, 209 



Waves and water, 217 



Wax, or plaster casts, substitute for 

 loose stuffing, 151 

 Process for restoring shrunken 

 parts, 209 



Weasels and polecats, to trap, 41 



Wheatears and ortolans, to catch, 

 19 



