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• Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history; as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals, plants, &c. Together with A treatise on the management of insects in their several states; selected from the best authorities. By E. Donovan, Author of the Natural Histories, of British Birds, and Insects
  by: Donovan, Edward
  Published: (1794)
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  by: Publicola
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  by: Person, who has bred canary birds, several years
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