| Description | A file containing instructions for collecting, preserving and presenting specimens of animals, vegetables and fossils for members of the Society for Promoting Natural History (SPNH). The instructions are labelled from A-N and include topics on what is natural history and the purpose of SPNH, quadrupeds, insects, general directions, seeds, fossils, fish, earth, stones, salts, inflammable substances and metallic ores. Also contains extracts of pages from published works detailing similar subjects. |