The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . ront and backboards were loose. Many pages were foxed orbroiled. Treatment: The text was washed in runningwater and buffered in a solution of mag-nesium bicarbonate. Due to the originaladhesive, there was severe abrasion at thefoldsof the signatures. The folds were cutoff and reguarded into folio and paper repairs were made withrice starch paste and Japanese paper. Thetext was veseim a continuous used at the spine was Flex 720,The plates were not treated because ot wasfeared the hand coloring woul
The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . ront and backboards were loose. Many pages were foxed orbroiled. Treatment: The text was washed in runningwater and buffered in a solution of mag-nesium bicarbonate. Due to the originaladhesive, there was severe abrasion at thefoldsof the signatures. The folds were cutoff and reguarded into folio and paper repairs were made withrice starch paste and Japanese paper. Thetext was veseim a continuous used at the spine was Flex 720,The plates were not treated because ot wasfeared the hand coloring would run. Due to aragged tab at pages 157-58 it appears that aplate -iras removed from the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH WILLIAM BARTRAM. Jk a short biographical notice, like the present mustnecessarily be, little more can be said of a man, than togive the general outlines of character and the leading in-cidents of his life. Of Mr. Bartram, the world, in times past, knew much,for his fame extended to both continents; in his sphere,he was one of the most eminent men of America; hisknowledge was acquired by incessant mental and bodilylabour; the fields of natural science in his early days wereunexplored, and he resorted to the study of nature whereshe unfolds her works to the senses as the only true sourceof knowledge, and it seems due to his eminence, to offera small tribute of respect in a biographical way, that hisexample for temperance, application to the study ofscience, perseverance, and the strict performance of hissocial duties, should be given for the benefit and encourage-ment of others. The accompanying portrait is a correct likeness of , and the only engraved one
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