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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![/ { l7. ] fitted to the proper place, after being moiftened with the varnifh *. When thefe antifeptic powders before men¬ tioned cannot be had, tobacco fand mixed with a fmall proportion of alum, black pepper, and camphor may be fubftituted. If the fublimate folutlon (Seed. II. page 16.) can be procured, the abdomen and throat of the animal may be firft waihed with it, and the tobacco, oakum, or tow, fteeped alfo in the fame liquor. Small birds are well preferved in brandy. ruin, arrack, or firft runnings, the fineft plumage not being injured by fpirits. Large fea-fowl have thick, ftrong fkins, and fuch may be Ikinned *, the tail, claws, head, and feet are carefully to be preferved, and the plumage ftained as little as poffible with blood. The in- fide of the fkin may be moiftened with the fub¬ limate folution, and then fluffed with oakum. V I ~ ' ’ tow, or tobacco fteeped in the fame, and after¬ wards dried in an oven, not heated fufficiently to white putty, which, when dry, may be painted * I am informed that both Leman’s and Grace’s curious collections were preferved with cork breaks. I have found that this gives the fubjefts a plumpnefs, which cannot be equalled by tow, or any fluffing; though it mull be admitted. that the fpecirnen exhibited before the Royal Society by captain Davis, can be exceeded by nothing but life itfelf. D to.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515555_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
