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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 inserts 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 insects may easily be caught. The beetles must have 

 the pin run through one of their wing-shells; the half- 

 winged inserts through the thorax, and so likewise must be 

 done to butterflies, hawk-moths, and moths, to the in- 

 serts with four and two membranaceous wings, and some 

 of the insefts without wings. As the papilionaceous inse£ls 

 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 inse6ls, 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, 



