03/02/2008

The naturalist's guide in collecting and preserving objects of natural history by Maynard (1887)

Maynard, C. J.; The naturalist's guide in collecting and preserving objects of natural history, Cupples and Hund Publishers, Boston (1887)

Table of contents:
1. Collecting and preserving birds
2. Collecting and preserving mammals
3. Collecting and preserving insects for the cabinet
4. Collecting and preserving fishes and reptiles
5. Miscellaneous collections


And I reproduce here an interesting and curious ad printed in the first page of this book:



And one more (here partially reproduced):