preservative medium

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The comparative cheapness and facility of carriage of the preservative medium.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

And this excellent preservative medium is thus sooner or later contributed to the stored honey.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various