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some album should be procured, formed of stout coloured 

 paper, aud on the pages of this album the specimens should 

 be tastefully arranged according to their size and form, and 

 then they may be made to adhere to the strong coloured 

 paper by touching the under side of each corner with well- 

 made paste; or, if there is no wish to remove them, by 

 applying the paste with a camel-hair brush to the whole 

 of the under side. After a short pressure, they will adhere 

 in the firmest manner, and, judging from wdiat I have lately 

 seen, there is no w^ay in wdiich a fine collection appears to 

 so great advantage. 



Having thus given the best directions I can for causing 

 specimens firmly to adhere to paper, that they may be placed 



in the herbarium, it would not be right to conclude without 



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 mentioning that there are other ways of preparing Sea- 

 weeds for ornamental work, and also for the herbarium. 

 Mrs. Hunter, of Drum, near Edinburgh, is most successful 

 in preparing them for ornamental fancy-w^ork, wdiich she 

 disposes of for charitable purposes. She kindly gave me a 

 most beautiful specimen of her work, along with a detail of 

 her mode of procedure ; but as 1 did not succeed in re- 

 ducing her instructions to practice, I fear that I do not 

 sufficiently understand them to be a good instructor of 

 others. 



