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To TRANSFER DELICATE OBJECTS. — Delicate objects floating in 

 liquid, as for instance, fungi on a dead insect, are very difficult 

 to transfer to a slide without disarranging them, and rendering 

 them useless for observation. I have for some time been em- 

 ploying this simple method with much satisfaction. Crowd a 

 wedge of cork or wood between the springs of a pair of pliers, 

 separating the points about f of an inch, and place a co\er glass- 

 of a diameter slightly larger than the distance between the 

 points of the pliers, transversely, so they will lightly grasp its- 

 edges ; taking hold of the top of the pliers, dip into the water a 

 little to one side of the object you wish to secure, and carefully 

 bringing it under the specimen lift it from the water. You can 

 then drop the cover and object on a glass slip, specimen upwards, 

 or what is better, make a holder of a slip of wood, or even of 

 card-board, with an aperture somewhat smaller than the cover 

 glass. — E. L. Cheeseman. 



To CATCH AND KILL SMALL INSECTS. — Take a widc-niouthed 

 bottle, fill it half full of cotton ; after saturating the cotton with 

 chloroform, put on the cotton and in the bottle, a round piece 

 of white paper or paste-board ; hold the mouth of the bottle over 

 a sitting insect and within one minute it will lay dead and clean 

 on the dry, protecting paper. — Dr Carl H. Horsch. 



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