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through any insects you have ^^netted," after they have been perfectly 

 killed, may be carried either in the pocket-box or in a small thin 

 pincushion, attached to a "guard." Two of these, made of velvet, and 

 exactly resembling butterflies, have been presented to me by Dr. Henry 

 Moses, of Appleby; I give a figure of one. 



One more last word: it has occurred to me that by driving a tin 

 tack firmly, but not up to the head, on each side of the rounded pieces 

 of wood, they may, after the insects have been set upon them, be 

 firmly lashed on to the narrow extending boards by a twine wound 

 underneath them, as illustrated in the engraving, and thus they may 

 be carried safe in the setting case without being liable to be shaken about. 

 Any respectable draper can procure the proper thread for setting the 

 insects with, from the Messieurs J. and W. Taylor, Leicester, and "made 

 to order," wound singly for the purpose. 



And now I have given you, and I think suQiciently, natheless not 

 at an undue length, the results of an experience of many years standing. 

 I was born an Entomologist, was self-educated one, as the cabinet in 

 the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, which I found time, amongst other 

 multiform and deep studies, while there, to arrange, will testify, and 

 it is nothing but the more serious business of life that now in great 

 degree hinders a larger amount of the innocent enjoyment which the 

 science of Entomology so abundantly rewards her votaries with. "Valeas," 

 good reader, and may you never ^^go out" without catching a Purple 

 Emperor, or a Scarce Swallow-tail, a Large Blue, or a Pale Clouded 

 Yellow, a White Admiral, or a Camberwell Beauty, and if these pages 

 shall have assisted you in the chase — "Plaudite." 



Addendum. — To the list of plants attractive to Moths, add the Sweet 

 Willow, the Larkspur, the Bladder Campion, (Silene injlata,) the Reed, 

 (Arundo,) and the Sallow, (Salix.) 



NoTA Bene. — Some kinds of woods are very injurious to specimens con- 

 tained in cabinets made of them; oak and mahogany are the best. I have 

 known a good collection much injured by being kept in a cabinet made 

 of ash or elm, I forget now which: turpentine exudes into the drawers, 

 and is very prejudicial. 



Lastly, in common with all who wish well to their collection or to their 

 country, I deprecate frequent '^Changes in the Cabinet" — ^^Let well 

 alone" is a good and wholesome proverb, applicable both politically and 

 entomologically. 



FINIS. 



