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fragile structure very important, a word or two on that matter 

 will not be out of place. I have found that the only way to 

 preserve in any degree their elegant Jife-form, is to immerse them 

 as soon as captured in small bottles filled with either Spirits of 

 Wine mixed with not more than one-third of water, or with 

 pure (iin ; on the folloAving day they should be taken singly 

 from the bottles, and laid for a few minutes only on Blotting 

 Paper, and then extended on Card with a strong solution of 

 Gum Tragacanth ; in this condition they must remain undis- 

 tui-bed until perfectly dried, they can be set, if required, at any 

 subsequent period. If taken from the moist situations which 

 they always inhabit, and placed in dry lidttles, they sooi die, 

 and become irretrievably contracted, unsightly and irrecognizable 

 objects. 



My best thanks are due to M. A. Fauvel, M. A. Fairmaire, 

 Dr. Power, Dr. Sharp, Mr. P. B. Mason, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Blatch, 

 and Mr. Butler, of Hastings, for the valuable assistance they 

 have so kindly given. 



