ADVERTISEMENTS. 



The Insect Hunter's Companion. 



By the Rev. Joseph Greene, M.A. 



A second large Edition of the 'Insect Hunters' is now 

 rapidly selling, and, from the number of letters I receive, I 

 am ready to conclude that every purchaser writes to ask me 

 some questions about catching, or killing, or preserving 

 insects, or v^'hether there is not some work describing the 

 various processes. The following questions have been asked 

 me times out of number : — Where to find moths and butter- 

 flies ; how to catch them ; how to bring them home without 

 injury ; how to kill them ; how to set them ; how to find the 

 caterpillars ; how to manage them ; how to feed them ; how 

 to breed the perfect insects ; where to find chrysalises ; what 

 to do with them ; how to keep mites and mould out of cabi- 

 nets ; how to cure grease ; how" to relax insects when they 

 have become stiff ; how to arrange them in cabinets; what 

 wood to use for cabinets ; and a hundred similar questions. 

 Replying to these questions has taken up more time than [ 

 can possibly afford, and there has hitherto been no cheap 

 handy-book that will at all meet the case. I have often been 

 compelled to refer to that portion of my ' Familiar Intro- 

 duction' which treats expressly on these subjects, and to 

 say, with a late celebrated physician, " You Dtust read my 

 book :" this I have always done reluctantly, because I have 

 no desire to induce a beginner to lay out twelve shillings on 

 a book, three-fourths of which he will not read until, by col- 

 lecting and studying insects, he has acquired a desire to 

 know more about them. Then, and not till then, will he 

 appreciate all that I have written of their anatomy, history 

 and classification. At first all that he requires is sound and 

 simple practical advice on the subjects above mentioned, and 

 it is to supply this want that Mr. Greene has written this 

 little book, with the desire to impart to the juvenile student 

 the knowledge and the experience which he has been so 

 many years assiduously and patiently acquiring. 



Price Is. 6d., post free. 



Edward Newman, 9, Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate. 



