Fig. 55 — Assembling cage. [*]

Fig. 56 — Cage for collecting larvae. [*]

Fig. 57 — Insect breeding cage [*]

CHAPTER XVI. ON NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO A NEW SYSTEM OF PICTORIAL ARRANGEMENT OF VERTEBRATES. [*]

Plate V. Arrangements of vertebrates in Zoological Room. [*]

Fig. 58 — Projected arrangement of a biological collection by "Scheme A." [*]

Scanner's remarks. [*]

[PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY]

[PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.]

THE First Edition of "Practical Taxidermy" having now run through the press — with, I venture to hope, some profit to students of the art, if I may judge from the many hundreds of letters I have from time to time received — the publishers have invited me to revise such parts of the work as may be expedient, and also to add many technical methods of modelling animals an artistic manner.