is better lined with cork, well impregnated with 

 a folation of eorrofive fuhlimate mercury. 



The fincft collections have been ruined by 

 fmall infects, and it is impoffible to have our 

 cabinets too fecure. Such infects as are thus 

 attacked may be fumigated with fulphur, in the 

 manner defcribed for killing moths ; if this 

 prove ineffectual, they may be immerfed in fpirit 

 of wine, w ithout much injuring their fine plu- 

 mage or colors ; and afterwards let them be 

 fprinkled about their bodies and infertions of 

 the wings with the folation above-mentioned. 

 But baking the infects in an oven in the man- 

 ner to be defcribed in the next fection for birds, 

 is the moft effectual rateihod! of extirpating thefe 

 enemies; however the utmofl caution is requifite 

 in this procefs, in regulating the heat of the 

 oven. 



Thefe obfervations and direclions reflecting 

 infects, may, perhaps, be the means of exciting 

 the curiofity of fome, whole inquiries after this 

 part of natural hiftory will be amply com pen- 

 fated by the frequent opportunities of enlarging 

 their knowledge, as there is fcarce any part of 

 the furface of this globe, fcarce a tree, a fhrub, 

 or a plant, an animal either living or dead, or 

 even the excrements of animals, on which fome 

 kind of infect does not depend for its fubfiftence 

 and propagation. 



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