Unpublished paper, 'An improved method of making anatomical preparations and preserving parts of animals' by Joseph Swan Swan presents his new method of making anatomical preparations which he reports will result in superior specimens of muscles and nerves. He explains his method using a specimen of an arm as an example. Corrections appear throughout in ink. Subject: Biology / Anatomy Written by Swan in Lincoln [Lincolnshire, England]. Communicated by Astley Cooper. 21 March 1818