nt eastern professional man, one who,
while "chained to business," still finds time to get "close to nature"
for a season each year:

"Referring to the fish mounted on our Newfoundland trip: I may say that
it was our first experience and we were agreeably surprised at results.
In all there were ten specimens of salmon, sea-trout and brook-trout
mounted and we found no great difficulties. All the work was
accomplished in an old barn after we got home evenings and early
mornings before going out. The only obstacle we encountered was getting
the fish back to the states in good shape. Five of the specimens now
occupy prominent place in the Doctor's den and I am always pleased to
point out to friends the results of our labors."

You can do as well.

INSTRUMENTS.

Knife.
Needle and thread.
Saw, fine toothed.
Scalpel.
Scissors, straight and curved.
Shears.
Skin scraper, not the toothed-edge.
Tweezers.

One can get along with simply a jack-knife, pair of shears, and needle
and thread; but to do first-class work easily, good tools are required.

MATERIALS.

Alcohol.
Aluminum leaf.
Arsenic, powdered.
Clay, potters' or modelling.
Eyes, glass, clear except pupils.
Papier mache, prepared.
Pine board.
Pins.
Plaster, calcined.
Tube paints.
Varnish, clear white.
Brushes.

PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS--Try first a perch or other fish having scales
firmly attached. See that the fins and tail are uninjured, and that no
scales are missing from the side to be displayed. As every perfectly
formed fish has both sides alike, and as ordinarily but one side can be
seen at a time, only a little more than one half of the fish is to be
mounted.

Note carefully the colors (including those of the eye and the interior
of the mouth) of the freshly caught fish, making a sketch of the
specimen, showing the extent of the different colors and markings, the
spots, if any, and the eye. The pupil is not usually round. The eye of a
lake trout appears like Fig. 1. A carefully kept note book is a valuable
aid.

[Illustration: Fig. 1 Eye of Lake Trout]

While the tail is of course a fin (the caudal), in this work it will be
called the "tail," to distinguish it from the other fins. See Fig. 2 for
key to the names of the fins.

[Illustration: FISH IN MOULD. (Fig. 2.)

Names of fins: D--Dorsal, A--Adipose, C--Caudal (tail), P--Pectoral,
V--Ventral, An--Anal.]