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bottle, with rum or rack, and thus fent over. This can 
likewife be done with all marine infeds, fmali crabs, 
millepees, centipees, fpiders, gaily worms, fcorpions, £s&v 
and many curious grubs or caterpillars, which are the fifft 
ftate which beetles and butterflies, moths, &c. live in. 
To each infect, notin fpirits, pot a fmali paper, on which" 
is marked the time of the year it is caught in, the plant 
or food it lives upon, its changes, and v/hat animals feaft 
again upon the infed, and other fuch particularities. 
VII. The {hells, both thofe found in frefh water- 
lakes, ponds, and rivers, and thofe that live only in the 
ocean, muft not be chofen among thofe that lie on the 
fhores of the fea and frelh waters, and have been brokeft 
and injured, or rolled by the waves and expofed to the 
air and fun and thus calcined ; but rather as frefh as 
poflible, and with the animal in it : one or two fpeci- 
mens of which may be preferved in Spirits : from the 
reft extrad the animal, and keep the fhell, when per- 
fedly dry and fweet, packed up in cotton, tow, or mofs. 
The fame is to be done with the echini or fea-eggs, and 
other cruftaceous animals ; efpecially be careful to pre- 
fer ve their curious fpines. 
VIII. The harder and ftone-like animal produdions of 
the fea, comprehended under the names of Madrepores, 
Millepores, Cellepores, Corals, and Gorgonias, are either 
without its inhabitants, and then they want no other 
care but a good packing in cotton or tow ; or the ani- 
mal is ftill alive, and then it would be necefTary to put 
the fpecimen in a flat veflel filled with Sea-water, and 
to watch the moment when the animal puts out its 
arms or branches, and then to pour inftantly a good 
quantity of ftrong fpirit into the water, fo that the acid 
of the liquor may prevent the animal from drawing in 
its branches or arms : after this, the animal may be 
put 
