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Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



are turned down, they do not show and it gives the 

 box a very neat appearance. Another advantage 

 of this specimen box hes in the fact that although 

 some of the corks may be big and others small, you 

 can cut out the holes to fit the individual corks and 

 allow them all to be the same height above the 

 cardboard and thus give a neat and uniform ap- 

 pearance. The ordinary way to make a specimen 

 box is to line it with sheet cork; this is more ex- 



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Folding paper for butterfly specimen. 



pensive and to my mind not as convenient as the 

 one here described, but corrugated brown paper, 

 such as is used for protecting books and other mer- 

 chandise when sent by express or mail, costs noth- 

 ing and the box may be lined with it ( Fig. 42 ) . 



BUTTERFLY ENVELOPES 



These may be made by folding pieces of paper 

 into three-cornered envelopes (Figs. 33, 34, 35 and 

 36 ) but I usually use the envelopes made for letters 



