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No. XCVI.-PRESERVING SPECIMENS. 
By Dr. BARNARD DAVIS, F.R.S. 
If it be possible to procure human skulls , get them in as 
perfect a state as possible, with lower jaws, teeth, and every 
part complete; but at the same time do not cast away alto¬ 
gether imperfect specimens. These are worth preserving. All 
should be packed up as carefully as possible, previously marking 
in some part of each, in ink if it is accessible, the name of the 
tribe to which the individual has belonged, the place at which 
the specimen was obtained, even the name and age of the 
individual if these can be ascertained. 
If after a battle, or other slaughter, the head of a native can 
be obtained with the soft parts in it, it might be preserved and 
transmitted carefully and perfectly closed up in a small keg 
filled up with spirit, or brine thoroughly saturated with salt. 
No. XCVH.—ANTHROPOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 
Instructions for obtaining, preserving, and disposing of. 
No. XCVIII.—CASTS, 8c c. 
Instructions for taking casts of objects, rubbings, inscriptions, 
and antiquities, &c.$ masks of faces, &c. 
No. XCIX.—PHOTOGRAPHY. 
Instructions for the use and transport of photographic ap¬ 
paratus. 
