When shells are to be removed from place to place, they must be very carefully packed, or they will most certainly be injured in their passage. The best direction for this purpose, is to wrap each in a piece of silver paper, and lay them in a box, though not so close as to touch. Each layer of shells is then to be covered, completely, with a layer of bran, and this may be repeated till the box is filled. The box must then be gently moved backwards and forwards, that the bran may settle ; as it is of consequence to fill it perfectly, before the lid is nailed down. It will be scarcely necessary to add, that the very heavy shells should be excluded, or that the lightest should be placed at top, and the box always kept upright. By these means ; shells may be sent, with safety, to any part of the world.

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