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drawers. These cabinets have a removable metal cover. Formerly 

 the drawers were 3 inches deep and fitted into double wooden cabi- 

 nets, holding twenty drawers and closed by paneled folding doors. 

 These drawers can be made more cheaply if of some other wood, 

 as pine or white wood. It is well to have a small label holder 



Fig. K14.— The Schmitt folding insect box, opened and showing akrangement of insects. 



attached to the end of the box, or front of the drawer. Formerly 

 double boxes, or book boxes, were very popular with some collectors, 

 two boxes of about 10 by 12 inches hinged together, one serving 

 as the top of the other, and each of the same depth, so that insects 

 may be pinned in each box. They are stood up on ends and the 

 backs covered to resemble books. 



