TABLE OP CONTENTS. 
Hints on Removing and Preparing Skins of Mammals . . 7 
Instructions for the Preservation of Birds .... 20 
How to Determine the Sex of a Bird 30 
Instructions for Collecting PiEptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes 33 
Instructions for Collecting Insects 48 
How to Collect Diptera (Two-Winged Flies) .... GO 
How to Collect Mosquitoes 80 
Instructions for Collecting Spiders, Centipedes (Arachnida, 
Myriopoda), and Peripatus .92 
Methods of Collecting and Preserving Various Soft-Bodied 
Invertebrate Animals 96 
Hints for Collecting and Preserving Shells of Molluscs . 113 
Directions for Collecting and Preserving Plants . . . 116 
Suggestions as to Collecting and Preserving Fossils . .126 
On Collecting Microscopic and Other Organisms in Pocks . 131 
Notes on Collecting Minerals 133 
Index 136 
