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25 specimens of each species of Reptiles, Fish, Crustaceous, 
and Arachnides, are sufficient. 
Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Shells, one hundred specimen 
of each, and fifty of other Insects. 
One thousand seeds of palm trees of each species, and two 
or three pounds of seeds of all the trees, bushes and plants 
of the country. 
Large beetles are not to be pinned ; you may put them 
separately in paper, and dried by sun, eight or ten days are 
sufficient. Then, pack them in a box with saw dust, or any 
soft substance. 
Very large species of Marine Shells, Reptiles, Fossils, etc. 
will be sent, only by order, to avoid the cost of transport 
which in many cases should be more than the value of the 
object. 
One specimen of each species of all the animals collected, 
should have a number attached to it, corresponding to one 
in a list in which you will indicate exactly the country 
where found, the month and the year when, the local name, 
the habits and others particulars which you judge inte- 
resting. 
This list will be sent in the same box as the objects. 
