36 MEMOIR OF DRURY. 



in spirits, because the spirits will certainly destroy 

 their colours. 



" The insects placed in the oval box, and now 

 sent, will serve to show what kinds of things are 

 meant, and also the manner in which the pins are 

 to be stuck through them, observing, that the in- 

 sects of foreign countries are oftentimes much larger 

 than any of these now sent, but are not less valuable 

 on that account. These are only sent as examples, 

 being all English, and of no value ; therefore they 

 may be thrown away when the person gets abroad, 

 in order to make room for those that are to be 

 caught. 



" It is desired, if the ship touches at different 



places in , to collect some at each of them, 



taking care to distinguish and separate them by a 

 mark or line in the box denoting where they were 

 taken, and keeping each parcel by itself. 



" Remember to bring as great a variety as possi- 

 ble, not too many of one sort, but different ones ; 

 two or three being a sufficient number of any one 

 kind, it not being so much the number as the dif- 

 ferent kinds that are wanted ; and for this reason 

 the collector is requested to bring various sorts of 

 BUTTERFLIES or MOTHS, BEETLES, FLIES with trans- 

 parent wings, LOCUSTS or GRASSHOPPERS, WASPS, 

 ANTS, WATERFLIES, FIREFLIES, or in short any 

 other sort except Cockroaches, Centipedes, or Scor- 

 pions, which are in general so very common as not 

 to be worth bringing, unless they are unusual sorts, 

 and such as are seldom seen. 



