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APHORISMATA ENTOMOL0GICA. 19
numbers are as follow:—No. 11, price sixpence an ounce; No. 13,
sixpence; No. 5, one shilling and threepence; No. 17, two shillings and
ninepence; No. 16, three shillings and threepence; No. 18, three shillings.
Of'these, the largest-sized are only for the largest-sized Sphinges; —
for by all means you should incline to putting a too small in preference
to too large a pin into any insect;—or for putting out the antennae
Avith; being long and fine, and larger ones being incommodious for the
small interstices that will sometimes be found to be left amono- the
card braces.
In no case use any but Entomological pins. "A maxim worth re­
membering I assure ye."
"NOTHING LIKE GLASS."
IT will perhaps have been observed that in the description of the
Entomological book-boxes just spoken of, no mention was made of
glass frames to them, which however it is absolutely essential, a 'sine
qua non,' that they should have; or otherwise, every time they are
opened, they are liable to all the ordinary injuries from dust and
other sources of evil, to which any common Entomological boxes are
exposed. I wrote therefore to Mr. Downie for a further estimate, which
he has supplied as follows, as a postscript to the former particulars:—
A five-shilling box with the addition of glass and frame, would be
seven shillings and sixpence; a seven-shilling box with the like would
be ten shillings and sixpence, or in other words, half a guinea; a
twelve-shilling box with the like, sixteen shillings.
The glass to be the very best than can be had, flattened as for
picture frames.
"TO BE CONTINUED."
"THE most valuable discovery of modern times"—to the Entomologist—
is the "Applicability" of sugar to the capture of moths. The "Suggestive
Hint" to this mode of proceeding was doubtless furnished to some
thoughtful mind, by the observation of the fact, that insects of various
kinds resort to an empty cask in which the "Essence of slave" has
been placed, for the purpose of "sipping the sAveets." Certes, the success
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