Formalin and melanin - specimens in alcohol and naturalized albinos

“The Amateur’s Cabinet” No. 15

To satisfy his thirst for knowledge of nature, man hunts, dissects, stuffs and puts animals in jars. Then he observes, describes, enumerates, and in doing so establishes genera and species, specimens and varieties, norms and pathologies. Thus he classifies, arranges, labels then, in museum windows, presents his organization of the world. No matter how much he does, always learning more, it appears in these pages that something of this wild nature continues to escape him.

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