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pared by burning common allum over a fire till it looses its 

 transparency ;) Camphor ; and the mere enveloping a skin 

 in common brown paper that has been saturated with allum 

 and arsenic in solution, has also been successfully tried. 



As each practitioner has a method peculiarly his own, in 

 performing the operations of skinning and stuffing Animals, 

 the Author does not presume to say his is the best ; but if 

 simplicity joined to oeconomy are worth attending to, his 

 plan at least has these to recommend it. 



To faciiitafe Naturalists in making their remarks on any 

 Animal they may procure, a sketch of a table is annexed, 

 which we would recommend to every person attending to 

 Natural History, to have constantly in their pocket book ; 

 or at least some one on a similar plan ; which may be procured 

 at most Booksellers or Stationers, ruled to their own pattern ; 

 by having tables of this kind always at hand, opportunity is 

 afforded of immediately putting our remarks on paper, 

 without any delay, as it often happens that when subjects of 

 this nature are committed to memory, others of equal interest 

 soon after occurring, the ideas of both become confounded, 

 and a difficulty is experienced in the separating the particu- 

 lars of each. 



