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by long continued soaking in water, boiling or scraping when fresh. Beetles in alcohol, Fossils, minerals, and shells in alcohol, or if large, dry. The horns of deer, skulls of Walruses, seals, and bears, are particularly valuable, together with beetles and fossils. Many beetles may be obtained where none are to be seen by turning over stones, or logs, or beating the grass along the waterside with the cap, in which they will drop; and among the piles of kelp &c on the shore. 
  2nd in value skins of birds, animals and reptiles, mud, clay, seaweeds, and shells generally, agates, bright pebbles &c. Fish, butterflies, and other insects.
  Flowers may be collected by simply laying the bunch in a dry place till dry, and doing it up in paper marked with the date and locality. If possible however to press each flat by putting into a press with paper, it is preferable.
  [[underlined]]The following things should never by omitted [/underlined]]
  Write on or label every specimen with date, locality and collector's name. Fossils with the character of the beds of rock, or earth, from which they are taken, and if possible a [[under-lined]] diagram [/underlined]] to show the position of fossils and beds of rock visible above and below, the bed from which they were taken, and the dip or inclination of the beds to any point of the compass, and the angle.[[end page]]

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