The Capture, Preparation, and Preservation of Specimens 



delphia is to be preferred to all others. The head of this firm is 

 himself a famous entomologist, and he has given us in the forceps 

 which is illustrated in Fig. 74 an instrument which comes as 

 near perfection as the art of the maker of instruments can pro- 

 duce. The small forceps represented in Fig. 75 is very useful 

 in pinning small specimens. In handling mounted specimens it 



Fig. 75. — Insect-forceps. 



is well always to take hold of the pin below the specimen with 

 the forceps, and insert it into the cork by the pressure of the for- 

 ceps. If the attempt is made to pin down a specimen with the 

 naked fingers holding the pin by the head, the finger is apt to 

 slip and the specimen to be ruined. 



IMMORTALITY 



A butterfly basked on a baby's grave, 



Where a lily had chanced to grow: 

 " Why art thou here with thy gaudy dye, 

 When she of the blue and sparkling eye 



Must sleep in the churchyard low ? " 



Then it lightly soared thro' the sunny air, 



And spoke from its shining track : 

 " I was a worm till 1 won my wings, 

 And she, whom thou mourn'st, like a seraph sings; 



Would'st thou call the blest one back ? " 



SiGOURNEY. 



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