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ratory operations, and after the fishes liave remained six days in 

 the alcohol, the liquid is to be changed for alcohol at 18°, in 

 which they are to remain other six days. Those of large 

 size should then be placed on a board, and completely cover- 

 ed with salt for eight hours. They are then to be put in a dry 

 place, exposed to the action of the sun through the day, and 

 defended from moisture at night. After this they must be 

 well wiped to remove all the salt, and bandaged with linen to 

 prevent the scales from being rubbed. They are then to be put 

 in alcohol at 18°, in which they should remain for transportation. 

 The flesh is penetrated by the salt, and when they are in alco- 

 hol at 18°, which contains much water, this water seizes the salt, 

 and forms an alcoholized brine, which keeps them perfectly 

 fresh, with all their colours, many months, even in tropical cli- 

 mates, as M. Ricord observed during the voyage which he has 

 lately made to the Island of Hayti. All these preparations must 

 be made in different casks. The cask in which the fishes are to 

 be put for transportation must be pitched on the outside, and 

 well washed internally with chloride of lime, and afterwards 

 with alcohol at 36°, to remove the chloride, which might alter the 

 colour of the fishes. Parchment tickets written with ink, bear^ 

 ing the number corresponding to the name of each fish, are to 

 be attached to the tail by means of a thread passed through it, 

 that, on loosing the bandages, they may not be torn off. On 

 arriving at their places of destination, the fishes are to be put in 

 alcohol at 25°. This new method of preserving fishes is much 

 more expensive than the old, but it is also more effectual. — 

 Fishes whose skins only are to be sent home, must be skinned 

 in a deep vessel filled with alcohol. In this way the scales do 

 not come off. When the skins are prepared, silk-paper is stuck 

 to them with mucilage, so as to cover tliem completely, which 

 prevents the 'scales from being detached during the voyage. 

 The paper will readily come off again at pleasure, by putting 

 the skins a few minutes in water. The colour of the eye is to 

 be painted on the paper which bears the number corresponding 

 to the name, which is attached by means of a thread drawn 

 through the head by the. orbits. — Bulletin Univers. 



12. Sea Birds, Sfc. of the Isle of May. — Mr Pithie, the intelli- 

 gent light. keeper on the Isle of May, in a note to his Return to the 



