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1G<br />
APHOEISMATA ENTOMOLOGICA.<br />
catalogue, as well as the part relating to the books, through the desire<br />
to benefit a person who seems to be a deserving man.<br />
1.—"An improved book box, which excludes the air and dust from the<br />
insects, covered with green book cloth, gilt labels, corked top and bottom,<br />
sixteen inches by twelve; the same as those made by me for the British<br />
Museum, and when shut up they resemble two volumes of a book:<br />
tweh'e shillings each.<br />
2.—The next size, finished in the same style, and corked top and<br />
bottom, thirteen inches by nine and a half: seven shillings.<br />
3.—Deal store boxes, corked top and bottom, sixteen inches by<br />
fourteen: eight shillings. If made for foreign insects, one shilling extra.<br />
4.—Mahogany collecting boxes, from four shillings and upwards.<br />
5.—A drying safe or box, with four trays corked, a drawer with<br />
divisions for pins, perforated zinc front and back, lock and key complete:<br />
twelve shillings and sixpence.<br />
6.—An improved whalebone net, which answers all the purposes of<br />
sweeping, beating, or for collecting insects on the wing: reduced to<br />
twelve shillings and sixpence. It is portable, and shuts up in a case<br />
like an umbrella.<br />
Sheets of prepared cork for cabinet drawers, sixteen inches square:<br />
two shillings each.<br />
All kinds of boxes and apparatus on improved principles made to<br />
order: prices in proportion as stated above."<br />
I need only remark in conclusion that while a cabinet, especially if<br />
a large one, is rather an expensive affair, the drawers costing ten<br />
shillings each, the books, on the principle of a division of labour, or rather<br />
of spreading an expense over a longer time, cause it to be hardly felt.<br />
One more last word: I recommend the books to be kept upwards, as<br />
if on a shelf, and not on their sides, for otherwise that which is a<br />
detriment to the preservation of insects in ordinary boxes, Avill exist here<br />
also, namely, the dust will fall from the specimens on the upper side,<br />
and lodge on those on the lower one.<br />
"DEATH IN THE BOTTLE."<br />
THIS IS a true motto—one which it behoves others as well as<br />
Entomologists to bear in mind; it is, however, only with the latter that<br />
I have at present to do. Various opinions have been set forth at