. Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . lowed to drain off into the empty bottle. Assoon as the whole has been collected in this way, alittle fresh water is allowed to run through, to washout the remaining salts, and, the bottle having beenemptied, the spirit in the other is poured in andallowed to run through. The funnel is then shiftedto the now empty bottle and the spirit poured through less dissolve and render brittle the delicate calcareousshells of Pteropods and other small mollusks. Itmay, however, be advantageou
. Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . lowed to drain off into the empty bottle. Assoon as the whole has been collected in this way, alittle fresh water is allowed to run through, to washout the remaining salts, and, the bottle having beenemptied, the spirit in the other is poured in andallowed to run through. The funnel is then shiftedto the now empty bottle and the spirit poured through less dissolve and render brittle the delicate calcareousshells of Pteropods and other small mollusks. Itmay, however, be advantageously employed in caseswhere for any reason a liberal supply of alcohol maynot be obtainable, as a much smaller bulk of glycerinewill suffice for the purpose. When a large catch has been made it is well tohave two or three funnels at work, as it is veryimportant to get the specimens spirited as soon aspossible. To show the amount occasionally obtained,I may mention that on one occasion the mass takenin a single haul of the net, left out for the night, wassufficient to more than half-fill an ordinary
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