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the extreme, and sent for me to learn the details. After a 

 few nisfhts' adventures with suc:ar he wrote to the late 

 Edward Newman, telling of the utilisation of sugar for the 

 capture of moths. An article in the ' Zoologist ' sent the 

 entomological world to the woods with the sugar-can and 

 lanthorn, and thus hegan the now well-known practice of 

 sugaring hy which our collections were rapidly enriched with 

 new species, with rarities, and, above all, with good and fresh 

 examples. 



