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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![[ 24- ] they mull be expofed betwixt papefs to a free dry air, with confiderable preilure upon them. The leaves and flowers fliould be carefully ex¬ panded, for on this the beauty and value of the fpecimen greatly depends. Thofe plants fliould alfo be gathered on a dry day, while they are in full bloom, and all their parts perfed and entire. When perfe&ly dry, they may be kept either loofe in quires of paper, or fattened into a book, with glew made of fine ifinglafs diflfolved in boil¬ ing water. Particular care is to be taken to avoid any injuries from moifture, or infeds; to prevent any accident from the latter, let the paper and {talks of the plants be fprinkled with the fublimate folution. (Sed. II. page 16.) . The impreffions of plants well taken off upon paper, look very little inferior to the belt draw¬ ings, and may be done with very little trouble. For this purpofe, feme printer’s ink *, and a pair of printer’s boffes, fueh as are ufed for laying the ink on types, are neceflfary. After rubbing thefe boITes with a little of the ink, lay the plant betwixt them, and prefs it fo as to give it fuffi- cient colour •, then take the plant and lay it care¬ fully on a flieet of paper, and prefs it with the hand, to give the impreffion of the plant to the paper, which may be afterwards coloured accord- * Where this cannot be procured, ivory, or lamp black, ground with boiled linfeedoil, may be fublfituted.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515555_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
