Practical taxidermy, and home decoration : together with general information for sportsmen (1880)
Batty, Joseph H., d. 1906 · New York : Orange Judd Company · leaf 126
th weak carbolic acid water. Ragged holes in eggs canbe improved by pasting gold-beaters skin over them. Eggs should be numbered with a lead-pencil, and thenumbers duplicated in a note-book, under which shouldbe written the date of collection, name of species, andany thing else of interest. Then… … 122 PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY. CHAPTER XXI. COLLECTING, PREPARING, AND PRESERVING REPTILES. The alligator is the largest reptile of North America,and should be skinned in the same manner as a mammal,the incision in the skin being continued nearly the fulllength of the tail. The plated skin is obstinate…
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