The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history, etc / [Anon].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history, etc / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ IO '] from fluttering and injuring their plumage, Befides a gauze forceps, the collector fliould have a large mufcheto gauze net, made in the fhape of a bat fowling-net, and alfo a pin- cufliipn with three or four different fizes of pins, to fuit the different fizes of infects. In hot climates, infects of every kind, but particularly the larger, are liable to be eaten by ants and other fmall infedts, efpecially before they ar£perfedtly dry: to avoid this, the piece of cork on which our infects are ftuck in order to be dried, fliould be fufpended from the del¬ ing of a room, by means of a (lender (bring or thread; befmear this thread with bird-lime, or forne- adhefive fubftance, to intercept the rapa¬ cious vermin of thefe climes in their paffage along the thread. After our infects are properly dried, they may be placed in the cabinet or boxes where they are to remain: thefe boxes fhould be kept dry, and alfo made to jfhut very clofe to prevent fmall in¬ fects from deftroying them; the bottoms of the boxes fliould be covered .with pitch, or green wax, ever which paper may be laid; or, which is better, lined with cork, well impregnated with a folution of a quarter of an ounce of corrofive fublimate mercury, in half that quantity of sethe- rial oil of turpentine, and a pint of the campho¬ rated fpirit of wine, A The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515555_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
