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tlie largest six inches long and four wide ; the smallest three 

 inches long and three inches wide. These may be fastened with 

 strings, but I prefer two buttons, as shown in the engraving 

 (Fig! 2). 



5th. The Drying Press. — This is formed of thin strips of wood, 

 so arranged as to allow a free current of air to circulate between 

 the layers of specimens 



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tween them, to facilitate 

 tlie escape of moisture. The 

 outside frames should be 

 made with two stout cross- 

 bars ; the two outer strips 

 one inch wide, the inner 

 strip haif-an-inch wide ; 

 the spaces between one- 

 quarter of an inch ; the 

 inner frames to be com- 

 r osed of two layers of strip 

 all half-an-inch wide, witli 

 quarter -inch spaces, with 

 three cross-bars between, 

 to which both layers 



Fig. 4. 



of strips are fastened by a screw passing through the hole ; 

 the end cross-bars one inch wide, the centre half-an-inch. Two 



Fib. 5.— The Press. 



light straps to pass over the cross-bars, to fasten them, will 

 keep the whole together compactly when filled with specimens 

 in process of drying (Fig. 5). 



Gth. An apron should be provided, made of oil- or American- 

 cloth, twelve inches wide and twenty inches long, divided into 

 partitions like a lady's needle-huswife, as represented (Fig. G). 

 This being waterproof, will keep the specimens clean and in 

 good order; and, when the day's collectiug is completed, can be 

 rolled up, and carried home. I can say nothing in praise of 



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