Directions for collecting, preserving and transporting specimens of natural history
Directions for collecting, preserving and transporting natural history specimens was issued by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 1852, with Spencer Fullerton Baird among its authors, as a field guide for amateur and professional collectors. Its plates show insects pinned for display, including a ground beetle and a stink bug, and a snake's head and tail beside a cylindrical specimen tube, drawn in crisp engraved line with cross-hatched shading that suits scientific diagram work and vintage natural history layouts.
