MANUAL OF NATURAL HISTORY. 623 



PART IV. 



DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING OBJECTS OF NATURAL 

 HISTORY. 



I. ZOOLOGY. 



The following suggestions are offered with the view 

 of affording to collectors and others, an insight into 

 the different methods which maybe adopted for pro- 

 curing and preserving the various forms of animals 

 which will probably be met with during their wan- 

 derings ; as although, at times, good specimens 

 have been obtained unexpectedly, or almost acci- 

 dentally, yet a systematic plan of procedure will, 

 undoubtedly, better reward the labours of the 

 Naturalist, augment the chances of the traveller, and 

 aid in securing to science valuable materials to be 

 used in the elucidation of that great and marvellous 

 scheme which Omnipotence and Omniscience have 

 designed. 



The equipment of a travelling naturalist should 

 consist of, — 



1st. — A rifle, a double-barrelled and a small single- 

 barrelled gun, with spare nipples, &c, a good supply of 

 percussion caps, the best powder in canisters, shot 

 of different sizes (dust-shot, Nos. 8, 6, 4, 1, and 



