TABLE OE CONTENTS. 
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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: Reptiles, 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 90 
Hints for Collecting and Preserving Shells of Molluscs . 112 
Directions for Collecting and Preserving Plants . . .115 
Suggestions as to Collecting and Preserving Fossils . .125 
On Collecting Microscopic and Other Organisms in Rocks . 130 
Notes on Collecting Minerals . . . . . . . . 132 
Index « 135 
