V. Fish of all denominations will likewise bear sending 
in bottles or kegs with brandy or rum. The fins, and tails 
of the fish, their scales, and in some kinds, the beards, or 
other small characteristic appendages, must not be rubbed, 
torn, or destroyed. 
VI. Insects may be caught in a pair of forceps covered 
with fine green or white gauze, which for better security 
may be sewed over either with silk or thread. The collec- 
tor must have a pincushion, with three or four different 
sizes of pins, calculated for the different sizes of the in- 
sects; one or two chip-boxes lined on top and bottom 
with cork, all steeped in the preparing liquor; one or more 
larger store-boxes at home to put therein the inse¢ts caught 
in the various excursions; a large Muscheto gauze-net 
made in the shape of a bat fowling-net, which is to be got 
ready made in London; and a thread net with small meshes 
on a round wire hoop fixed to a long pole, in order thus 
to catch insects that live in water. With these instruments 
all inseéts may easily be caught. The beetles must have 
the pin run through one of their wing-shells; the half- 
winged insects through the thorax, and so likewise must be 
done to butterflies, hawk-moths, and moths, to the in- 
sects with four and two membranaceous wings, and some 
of the inseéts without wings. As the papilionaceous inse¢ts 
very frequently beat their wings, and thus rub off the fine 
scales covering them, it is necessary to give these creatures, 
when in the forceps or net, a gentle squeeze at the insertion 
of the wings in the body, and to put them, when returned 
home from an excursion, on a large pincushion, by which 
means they will be enabled to rest their feet on, and this 
will prevent their fluttering. Beetles, and many of the 
half-winged insects, may be dipped in the preparing liquor, 
which will kill and put them soon out of pain and pre- 
vent small insects from destroying them. The greater part 
of beetles may with as great propriety be plunged into a 
bottle, 
