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Messrs (Silver and Co supply very good)

Silver and Co. supply very good folding lanterns with talc sides. Two onegallon filters, axes, saws, hammers, gimlets, knife-sharpeners, and files should be included. A few pounds of six-inch French nails will be found useful for pegging out skins. They do not make such unsightly holes as wooden pegs do.

Skin Preserving. - Napthaline tablets prevent the ravages of insects among skins, and for curing the latter nothing is so good as salt and alum, mixed in the proportion of two parts of salt to one part of alum.

This preparation should be well rubbed on to the raw side of the skin immediately it is stripped from the animal; the skin should then be folded into as small a compass as possible, and left for not longer than six hours in that state. When opened out it will be found that the skin is thoroughly cured and ready for pegging. On no account let it be exposed to the sun when pegged out. Arsenical soap and all other taxidermical preparations are costly and dangerous, and not nearly so effective as salt and alum. The white ash of the camp fire forms an effective substitute for salt and alum when the latter are unobtainable.

Medicine. A medicine chest is, of course, an important part of the outfit.