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right up to its head, and from top to bottom of tlie cork. Seizing 

 the pin with a pair of pliers on the under side of and close up to 

 the cork, the pin is first bent at right angles to its upper part, and 

 then into a small loop, as in fig. 2. Behind this pin is thrust 

 through the cork a stouter 1-inch pin. 



By this means the thin pin may slide up and down through 



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Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 3. 



the cork, as required, while the stouter pin secures the little 

 appliance to the small mounting block. 



The second " cork pin " is prepared in like manner, except 

 that the thin pin is simply bent at right angles close ui) to the 

 cork, fig. 3. 



When intending to use the pins during the operation of setting 



Fig. 4. 



Fig. 5. 



out, it is well to cut off the heads of the entomological pins, and 

 a number of these may conveniently be reduced to h inch in length 

 .and to be stuck lightly in at one end of the mounting block, ready 

 to be taken up by the forceps as required. 



I assume that an ordinary dissecting table is used, with rests 

 for the hands, but in place of the usual glass slide a wooden one 

 is fitted, aljout the centre of which two small lengths of wood 



