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allowing the others of the same kind to go into 

 cocoon state and preserving some of the chrysalides 

 and cocoons in spirits, numbering them the same as 

 the caterpillar, also allowing some of the caterpil- 

 lars to hatch out as moths and preserving a speci- 

 men of both male and female millers and nmiiber- 

 ing them the same as the caterpillar, the reader 

 will have the data necessary to completely identify 

 his specimens, and if he adds the eggs of the moth 

 on the leaf, stick or bark upon which they are laid 

 and presei*\ es them in spirit, he will have the whole 

 life history of his specimens. 



When he makes a collection of this kind and 

 goes into it scientifically he should secure Packard's 

 Introduction to the Study of Insects, and read that. 

 Of course he must expect to have many bruises 

 from knocking against the hard names he finds in 

 this book, but after a while his mind will become 

 toughened and contact with the hard names will 

 cease to pain him. lie should also hunt up a copy 

 of Harris's Insects Injurious to Vegetation and 

 read works by such men as Leland O. Howard 

 and J. H. Comstock, and such women as Ida M. 

 Eliot and Caroline Gray Soule. 



Scientific books on moths and butterflies are to 



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