The Cabinet
With regard to the cabinet for such specimens as you are able to collect, the same advice holds good as that given in a previous Manual (The Young Collector’s Shell Book), namely, the simpler the cabinet the better, though of course card-board boxes would not as a rule be strong enough to stand the weight of the specimens, and hence it is advisable to have wooden ones. The boxes in which Oakey’s Wellington Knife-powder is sent out (they measure about 15 in. × 10 in. × 3 in.) are on the whole the most convenient size, and are easily obtainable at any oil and colourman’s. These, when painted over with Berlin Black, after first removing the external labels, look very neat. The inside may be papered according to taste, when the trays may be arranged in order ready for the reception of your specimens.2
Notes
1 Except in such cases where the rocks themselves have been displaced by movements of the earth’s crust.
2 For description of trays, see “The Young Collector’s Shell-Book.”