Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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May 16 DC. 59 foxes and skunks up, is to have them thoroughly tamed. Made-up skins have sand and dirt in the fur, and the greater or less amount of grease inevitably left is sure to cause disintegration eventually. Even some of the lately collected B.S. stuffed skins are "rapidly falling to pieces". Mr. Kent declares that wood is superior to steel, for cases and shelving in museums and libraries, from a fire standpoint. In the Albany fire books in wooden shelves were charred, but those in steel cases were incinerated. Index labels for groups. Picture 1 group in center of poster (framed) with red index lines run out to names, and descriptive matter beneath.