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bottle, with rum or rack, and thus sent over. This can 

 likewise be done with all marine insefls, small crabs, 

 millepees, centipees, spiders, gaily worms, scorpions, &c. 

 and many curious grubs or caterpillars, which arc the first 

 state which beetles and butterflies, moths, &c. live in. 

 To each inse6t, 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 inse6l, 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- 

 fe6lly 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 



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