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feet are carefully to be preferved, and the plumage 

 fcained as little as poffible with blood. The in- 

 fide of the fkin may be fluffed as recommended 

 above. 



Kuckahn obferves that " Baking is not only 

 " ufeful in frefh prefervations, but will alfo be 

 " of very great fervice to old ones, deftroy- 

 " ing the eggs of infects ; and it fhould be a 

 " conftant practice once in two or three years 

 " to bake them over again, and to have the 

 " cafes frefh warned with camphorated fpirit, 

 " or the fublimate folution, which would not 

 " only preferve collections from decay much 

 " longer, but alfo keep them fweet (£)." 



One of the beft prefervatives, is to procure 

 clofe boxes, well glazed : with fuch a precau- 

 tion I have kept them in a dry room many 

 years without the leafl appearance of injury. — 

 Baking is apt to crimp and injure the plumage-, 

 unlefs great care be ufed, and therefore the 

 proper degree of heat fhould be afcertained by 

 means ot a feather, before fuch fubjects are 

 baked. 



"When the fubjecl is to be kept fome time in 

 a hot climate, it mould be fecured in a box rilled 

 with tow, oakum, or tobacco, well fprinkled 

 with the fublimate folution (Seel:. I. p. io.j 

 The fame preparations and precautions already 

 defcribe J, are equally applicable to quadrupeds 

 in general. 



Small quadrupeds, all kinds of reptiles, as 

 fnakes, lizards, and frogs j fifh (i) of all forts, 



and 



(b) See Philofophical Tranfaftions, vol. LX. page 319. 

 (/) Sir Car. a Linne defcribes another method of pre- 

 fervine fifh : this is to expofe them to the air, and when 

 h r they 



