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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![i ] The fined collections have been ruined by imall infects, and it is impoffible to have our cabinets too fee tire. Such infeeds ‘as are thus attacked may be immerfed in fpirit of wine, with¬ out injuring their fine plumage or colours:, and afterwards lei them be ipnnkded about their bodies and rnfertions of the wings with'the folia¬ tion above-mentioned. We may diffolve a much larger proportion of fublimate rqercury, by means of a Saturated folution of crude fal .ammoniac in water: I find that an ounce of the ial ammoniac folution will diffolve twenty fcruples of the fublimate. Thefe obfervations and diregions refpeftino- infeeds, may, perhaps, be the means of exciting the curiofity of fome, whofe enquiries after this part of natural hiftory will be amply cornpen- fated by the frequent opportunities of enlarging their knowledge, as there is fcarce any part of the furface of this globe, fcarce a tree, a fhrub, or a plant, an animal either living or dead, or even the excrements of animals, on which fome kind of infeed does not depend for its fubfiftance and propagation. An inquifitive traveller, as well as every other perfon, has it more cr lefs in his power to add to the common flock of knowledge, with very little expence either of time or labour. C % 4. Sect.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515555_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
