Warwickshire from its high state of cultivation has but 

 few waste spots, on which insects usually abound, but its 

 varied soils and numerous woods will doubtless yield 

 great results to the efforts of a zealous collector. Those 

 of our Members living in the country are earnestly 

 sohcited to preserve and forward to our Curators, any 

 specimens that may fall in their way. Lepidoptera may 

 be captured in pill-boxes and killed by means of a few 

 drops of chloroform. Coleoptera and other orders should 

 be put into a bottle in which has been previously placed 

 a small quantity of bruised laurel leaves, the prussic acid 

 contained in the leaves not only quickly killing the 

 insects, but also preserving them fresh, and in a state for 

 setting for a considerable length of time. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 



It has been observed with truth "that you cannot vie 

 with the larger Museums in a general collection, but you 

 may excel them if you confine yourself for the most 

 part to a purely local collection." Fully agreeing with 

 this opinion, the Hon. Curators, while enlarging the 

 collection of British Birds, purpose to do so as much as 

 possible by means of specimens obtained in Warwick- 

 shire or the contiguous Counties. They offer these 

 remarks in the hope that the friends of the Institution 

 will assist them in carrying out their views by donation 

 of some of the species still required to make the 

 collection complete. 



