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CONTENTS. 
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Introduction 3 
\ I. Instruments, preservative materials, etc. .... 5 
1. Implements for skinning 5 
2. Preservatives 5 
\ II. Skinning and stuffing animals ...... 6 
1. Birds 6 
2. Mammals .9 
3. Reptiles 9 
4. Fishes . . . . . . .11 
I III. Preserving in liquids, and by other modes besides skinning 12 
1. General remarks 12 
2. Vertebrata 14 
3. Invertebrata 15 
§ IV. Embryos 17 
§ V. Nests and eggs 17 
I VI. Skeletonizing 18 
I VII. Plants 18 
I VIII. Minerals and fossils 20 
g IX. Desiderata 20 
$ X. General list of apparatus . 22 
1. For collecting 22 
2. For preserving 23 
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