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V. Fifh of all denominations will likewife bear fending 
in bottles or kegs with brandy or rum. The fins, and tails 
of the fifh, their fcales, and in fome kinds, the beards, or 
other fmall charaderiftic appendages, muftnot be rubbed, 
torn, or deftroyed. 
VI. Infeds may be caught in a pair of forceps covered 
with fine green or white gauze, which for better fecurity 
may be fewed over either with filk or thread. The collec- 
tor tnuft have a pincufhion, with three or four different 
fizes of pins, calculated for the different fizes of the in- 
fers ; one or two chip-boxes lined on top and bottom 
with cork, all flceped in the preparing liquor *, one or more 
larger ftore-boxes at home to put therein the infeds caught 
in the various excurfions ; a large Mufcheto gauze-net 
made in the fhape of a bat fowling-net, which is-to be got 
ready made in London ; and a thread net with fmall mefhes 
on a round wire hoop fixed to a long pole, in order thus 
to catch infers that live in water. With thefe inftruments 
all ; infeds may eafxly be caught.. The beetles muff have 
the pin run through one of their wing-fhells •, the half- 
winged infeds through the thorax, and fo likewife muff be 
done to butterflies, hawk-moths, and moths, to the in- 
fers with four and two membranaceous wings, and fome 
of the infects without wings. As the papilionaceous infeds 
very frequently beat their wings, and thus rub off the fine 
fcales covering them, it is neceffary to give thefe creatures, 
when in the forceps or net, a gentle fqueeze at the infertion 
of the wings in the body, and to put them, when returned 
home from an excurflon, on a large pincufhion, by which 
means they will be enabled to reft their feet on, and this 
will prevent their fluttering. Beetles, and many of the 
halffwinged infeds, may be dipped in the preparing liquor, 
which will kill and put them loon out* of pain and pre- 
vent, final! in feds from deftroying them. The greater part 
■sf Beetles may with as great propriety be plunged into a 
bottle. 
