ON KILLING AND PRESERVING 
INSECTS. 
Whether insects be possessed of feeling or 
not, (a point often mooted and the negative 
insisted on by some of the first naturalists,) 
every one ought, if only for the sake of his own 
feelings, to put them to the most speedy death 
possible. The following methods are recom- 
mended as effecting that end in general instan- 
taneously. 
Beetles and Field Bugs, {Coleoptera and 
Hemiptera) of a black or dark colour only^ 
may be put into a phial half filled with weak 
spirits of wine, as collected ; when taken home 
pour the contents of the bottle on a piece of 
muslin over a cup, and return the spirit for 
future use ; then put the insects for a minute 
in hot water and then on blotting paper, to 
absorb the moisture. Beetles, fieldhngs, and 
grasshoppers, are instantly killed by being 
plunged into scalding water. When taken 
