| Full Title |
The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion. Containing Instructions for Discovering and Preserving Objects of Natural History, Under the Following Heads: I. The Method of Catching and Preserving Insects for Collections, Illustrated with a Copper-Plate. II. The Method of Preserving Birds and Other Animals. III. Directions for Bringing over Seeds and Plants from Distant Countries. IV. Method of Analysing Medicinal or Mineral Waters. V. Experiments for Discovering the Contents of the Air. VI. Directions for Collecting Fossils, Including Earths, Stones, Salts, Inflammables, Minerals, and Metals. VII. Directions for Taking off Impressions or Casts, from Medals and Coins |
| Authorship Notes |
Scientific instruction for collecting specimens. The first edition (1772) contains no travel advice as such. However, the second edition (1774) contains a new second part with an extensive set of heads and inquiries in the following sections (pp. 65-89): Observations and Queries respecting Learning, Antiquities, Religious Rites, polite Arts, &c.; Commerce, Manufactures, Arts, Trade, &c.; Meteorological Observations, Food, Way of Living, Animal Oeconomy in general, &c.; Zoology; Botany; Mineralogy. |
