Directions for collecting and preserving animals; addressed ... to professional, scientific, and other individuals, with an invitation for contributions to the Museum.

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
Date:
1835
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Credit: Directions for collecting and preserving animals; addressed ... to professional, scientific, and other individuals, with an invitation for contributions to the Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF REPTILES. When Alligators, Crocodiles,Turtles, or Tortoises are too large to be preserved whole, some parts, as the head, the whole viscera stripped down from the neck to the anus, and also the anus, should be put into spirit. The hones of such specimens are especially desirable. The eggs at different stages of development should be preserved in spirit, as also the young animals. Lizards are to be preserved whole. Snakes may be preserved whole, or in part, especially the heads, both of the poisonous and in- nocuous species, for the examination of their teeth and fangs. OF FISHES. In a Fish the external appearances should be at- tended to, its length, depth and thickness, the num- ber of fins, their shape, where placed, the number of hard and soft rays supporting the fins, &c. In very large specimens of the Shark or Ray kind, &c., the abdomen should be first opened, then the head taken off by dividing the fish below the heart, c
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