Xvi PREFACE. 



feeds, &c, § III. p. 23, which I have ex- 

 tracted from the Tranfactions of the Soci- 

 ety for the Encouragement of Arts, Vol. 

 xvi. p. 265. It is merely packing up feeds 

 in abforbent paper, and furrounding the 

 fame by raifins, or brown moift fugar ; 

 which, by experiment, feems to afford that 

 genial moifture requilite to preferve the 

 ieeds in a ftate fit for vegetation. 



The Naturalift Chould endeavour to keep 

 an accurate journal, wherein all the oc* 

 currences, obfervations, places, diftances* 

 defcriptions, accounts, informations, and re- 

 marks, fhould regularly and daily be enter- 

 ed, while recent in memory. - 



It would be advifable to write on a label 

 fixed to each objeft, a number correfpond- 

 ing to the notes in the journal ; by which 

 means, at any future period, the objeft it* 

 felf may be clearly ascertained. 



THE, 



