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the insect will be — apparently at all events — lifeless, and that without 

 pain to itself, or injury to it as a cabinet specimen. Observe, however, 

 that, and especially if you have occasion to remove the stopper at all 

 often, the spirit, evaporating, will require to be renewed, and you must 

 therefore carry with you a small jAial of it, so as to be able to 

 replenish the larger one as often as may be necessary. You will find 

 also that if the bottle be kept upright and not needlessly shaken, a 

 large quantity of insects can be well and safely brought home in it, 

 without being transferred to the pocket-box. This at the same time 

 ensures that care which should always be taken to leave the insects a 

 sufficiently long time under the influence of the narcotic, for otherwise 

 the state of "coma" would go off, and the anticipated result would not 

 be gained. I have seen spirit of ammonia applied in the same way, but 

 the former is decidedly preferable. 



"pin money.' 



' I HAVE already briefly touched on this "head," but it is a subject on 

 which a few pointed remarks may yet be made with advantage, at all 

 events to the "tyro." And, first, where to procure a suitable article 

 is the most important enquiry. If therefore you can find your way 

 about London — which is more than I could do until a few years ago, 

 having never till then even passed throiigh that village — go to Cheapside, 

 a locality of which you have doubtless heard in connexion with Johnny 

 Gilpin, and in divergence therefrom, to the right, as you wend eastward, 

 namely, in a place yclept "Crown Court," you will find the London 

 establishment of a Birmingham firm, by name '^Edelsten, Williams, and 

 Co." State your requirements, and, for a due consideration, they will 

 be instantly supplied. You must, however, if you write from a distance, 

 accompany your order with a post-office one, and you must also specify 

 that what you want are for Entomological purposes, and indeed write 

 the word ^^Entomological" on the outside of your letter, or otherwise 

 it will be forwarded to the head-quarters at Birmingham, which will 

 cause a delay; but if thus marked, it will be opened in London. I 

 recommend the following sizes as the best, as affording an ample selection 

 for all ordinary uses, but there are many others, the manufactory 

 being of lace pins, and, as such, not expressly for Entomological 

 appliances, though they are as good for these as any that I know. The 



