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May 6 D.C.
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deteriorate at much lesser rate.
For adhesive, teeth labels, etc.,
they use Ambroid ( " banana
oil" compound) which, altho poisonous,
is better than glue, and does not
wrinkle paper as does any
watery solution.
Their systematic catalog of
the mammals of the world is
very complete - kept up to date
since first edition of Treussart
in 1898 - bibliography by author,
specific & generic names. Their
copy of Treussart is kept
up to 1898 by annotations. I
am saving samples of their
cards, which are large, 6x8"
I think, so as to take full
lines of typewriting. They copy
copiously, but do not believe in
cutting & pasting separate as does the B.S.