(30-0) 
bottle, with rum or rack, and thus sent over. This can 
likewise be done with all marine insects, small crabs, 
millepees, centipees, spiders, gally worms, scorpions, &c. 
and many curious grubs or caterpillars, which are the first 
state which beetles and butterflies, moths, é&c. live in. 
To each insect, not in spirits, put a small paper, on which 
is marked the time of the year it is caught in, the plant 
or food it lives upon, its changes, and what animals feast 
again upon the inseét, and other such particularities. 
VII. The shells, both those found in fresh water- 
lakes, ponds, and rivers, and those that live only in the 
ocean, must not be chosen among those that lie on the 
shores of the sea and fresh waters, and have been broken 
and injured, or rolled by the waves and exposed to the 
air and sun and thus calcined; but rather as fresh as 
possible, and with the animal in it: one or two speci- 
mens of which may be preserved in Spirits: from the 
rest extract the animal, and keep the shell, when per- 
fectly dry and sweet, packed up in cotton, tow, or moss. 
The same is to be done with the echini or sea-eggs, and 
other crustaceous animals; especially be careful to pre- 
serve their curious spines. 
VIII. The harder and stone-like animal productions of 
the sea, comprehended under the names of Madrepores, 
Millepores, Cellepores, Corals, and Gorgonias, are either 
without its inhabitants, and then they want no other 
care but a good packing in cotton or tow; or the ani- 
mal is still alive, and then it would be necessary to put 
the specimen in a flat vessel filled with Sea-water, and 
to watch the moment when the animal puts out its 
arms or branches, and then to pour instantly a good 
quantity of strong spirit into the water, so that the acid 
of the liquor may prevent the animal from drawing in 
its branches or arms: after this, the animal may be 
put 
