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Quadrupeds. 
Quadrupeds that are not of too large a Size, and 
particular to certain Countries, may be put into a 
State fit to be fent to the moft remote Parts, by 
one of the four Ways ufed to preferve Birds: You 
may make durable Collcdions of them like thofe of 
the latter. M. Reaumur has begun one, which 
makes Perfons who fee it wifh that there might 
be more complete ones of the fame kind. 
Fifbes and Reptiles. 
Fifhes and Reptiles, which, as well as Quadrupeds, 
are engaging Objeds for Naturalifts, are eafier to be 
fent; it is fufiicient to put them into Barrels full 
of ftrong Brandy. They may alfo be dried, either 
by Materials with which you may fill the Cavities 
of their Bodies, or by a gentle and well-manag’d 
Heat. 
Infefls. 
Infeds, which offer to us fo many admirable Va- 
rieties, deferve the Care of gathering them into 
Colledions, which cannot but be precious to thofe 
who have made thofe little Animals their Study. 
All thofe which are foft, as for inftance Worms 
and Caterpillars, may be preferved in Brandy. Their 
tender Colours will run lefs Hazard of being alter’d, 
if you put into the Brandy fuch a Quantity of Sugar 
as it is able to diffolve. Beetles may alfo be put into 
the fame Liquor ; but Butterflies and Flies would be 
fpoiled in it : After having killed them, you mull 
range them in Lays in Boxes, and feparate thofe 
Lays with Beds of Cotton. Though one ought to 
colled in each Country, preferably, thofe which (trike 
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