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 sect, m 



Method of preferving Birds and other 

 Animals. 



< Vitara excoluere per Artes. 



Vir. JEn. 6. v. 663. 



TH E general increafe of knowledge of late 

 in natural hiftory, from the attention of 

 individuals to various branches of it, mufl af- 

 ford no fmall degree of pleafure to the fenfible 

 part of mankind. Whilft fuch different re- 

 searches have given entertainment to different 

 difpofitions, enlarged the mind, and engaged 

 and diverted it from unprofitable or dangerous 

 purfuits, they have occafionally given rife to the 

 mod ufeful improvements in every department 

 of life, and afforded means of joining utility 

 ^vith elegance. 



To promote thefe purpofes more effeelually, 

 a more general knowledge of a good antifeptic 

 for animal fubftances has been much enquired 

 after. Owing to a want of this, many curious 

 animals, and birds particularly, come to our 

 hands in a very imperfecl ftate : fome from 

 foreign parts entirely mifcarry, and others of 

 the fineft plumage are devoured by infects. 



Since the firft infertion of this account in 

 the Gentleman's Magazine (r), the methods 

 tifed by the ingenious captain Davis, and T. S. 



(0 Vol. IX. 1770, page 293. 



Kuckahn, 



