CONTENTS 



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Introduction 1 



Remarks on foreign travel 2 



Photography 6 



How to address shipments for entry into the 



United States 7 



General information needed for specimens . . 8 



How to keep field notes 9 



Sample extracts from a permanent field 



notebook 11 



Pressed-plant specimens 12 



Kind of data needed 12 



Equipment for plant collecting 14 



Collecting hints 16 



Palms 18 



Bamboos 18 



Equipment for plant pressing 19 



Hints on pressing 20 



Drying methods 35 



Packing for shipment 39 



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Plant products for analysis 39 



Suggested notes to accompany samples. . . 39 



Propagation material 40 



Suggested notes to accompany material. . 40 



Supplies needed 40 



Preparation and packing methods 41 



Diseased-plant specimens 43 



Kind of data needed 43 



Suggested notes to accompany specimens. . 43 



Collecting 44 



Insect-pest specimens 48 



Kind of data needed 50 



Suggested notes to accompany specimens. . 50 



Collecting 50 



Killing 5i 



Preser ving 51 



Packing for shipment 52 



Summary 52 



Acknowledgments are due various staff members of the Bureau of 

 Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, 

 and Agricultural Engineering, Forest Service, and Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion for critical advice and loan of photographs used as illustrations. 



The writing of this publication was made possible by funds provided 

 through the United States Interdepartmental Committee on Cultural 

 and Scientific Cooperation. 



