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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![f C H ] ing to nature ; a piece of- blotting paper :may be placed betwixt the plant and the hand, to prevent the latter from being dirtied by the ink. But the moft effectual method of fend¬ ing a branch of any plant with the flowers, and parts of frudtification entire and perfed, is to put them in bottles of brandy, rum, or arrack. Corals, corallines, fponges, inhabitants or the fea, are found in conliderable variety near the coafis of iilands and continents, particularly in hot climates. Some of thefe are very tender and brittle when dry, and ftiould therefore be carefully packed up in fand, in order to keep them fteady, or placed betwixt papers in the manner of an hortus ficcus. In hot climates, the infeds are very rapacious; and I have feen the fineft fan-corals, and others of a foft texture when firft taken out of the fea, almoft devoured by ants, before they became dry and hard, To prevent injuries of this kind, a little powdered corrofive fublimate, or the fublimate folution (Sed. II. page 16.) may be fprinlded upon thefe productions. Some of the fmall, and branches of the large ones, might alfo be put into fpirits, and the parts of them thereby preferved much more diflind, which E would](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515555_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
