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with great Attention, Patience, and Sagacity. And 
it is to be wifhed that he may continue thus dili- 
gently to apply himfclf to the Study of Natural 
Hiftory. 
VI Divers Means for preferring from Cor- 
ruption dead Birds, intended to be fent to 
remote Countries , fo that they may arrive 
there in a good Condition, Some of the fame 
Means may be employed for preferring 
Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fifhes, and In feds, 
by M, de Reaumur, F. R, S, and Memb . 
Royal. Acad, Sc, Faris. tranflated from the 
French ^ Phil. Hen. Zollman, Efq\ FRA, 
Head from March io.T"^ E R. S O N S who have at Heart 
j 7 47-8. to April 27, the progrefs of Natural Hiftory, 
1748, and intend to facilitate the 
Study of it, mud needs be deftrous to ice the Col- 
1 eft ions of divers Sorts of Productions, which form 
the Obje&s of it, multiplied and enlarged, and there- 
fore will be difpofed to contribute towards it with 
all their Ability. Thofe Colledions prefent toge- 
ther in one Place more different Sorts of Bodies of 
the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, 
there to be at Leifure compared and examined one 
a^ainft: the other, than one could hope to find fuc- 
ceffively in the longeft and mod laborious Voyages 
and Travels. In order to render thofe Colledions 
as 
