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The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering & preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general / [Anon].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1774
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering & preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ IS ] ' feet are carefully to be preferved, and the plumage flained as little as poflible with blood. The in- fide of the fkin may be fluffed as recommended above. Kuckahn obferves that £C Baking is not only 44 ufeful in frefh prefervations, but will alfo be 44 of very great fervice to old ones, deftroy- 44 ing the eggs of infects; and it fhould be a 44 conflant practice once in two or three years 44 to bake them over again, and to have the 44 cafes frefh walked with camphorated fpirit, 44 or the fublimate folution, which would not 44 only preferve colledtions from decay much 44 longer, but alfo keep them fweet (£).” One of the belt prefervatives, is to procure dole boxes, well glazed: with fuch a precau¬ tion I have kept them in a dry room many years without the leaft appearance of injury.—• Baking is apt to crimp and injure the plumage; unlefs great care be ufed, and therefore the proper degree of heat fhould be afcertained by means of a feather, before fuch fubjedts are baked. When the fubjedl is to be kept fome time in a hot climate, it fhould be fecured in a box filled with tow, oakum, or tobacco, well fprinkled with the fublimate folution (Sedt. I. p. io.) The fame preparations and precautions already defcribed, are equally applicable to quadrupeds in general Small quadrupeds, all kinds of reptiles, as fnakes, lizards, and frogs} fifh (i) of all forts, and (b) See Philofophical Tranfadtions, vol. LX. page 319. (7) Sir Car. a Linne defcribes another method of pre¬ ferring fiih ; this is to expofe them to the air, and when they](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30511495_0001_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
