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dous process requires no little skill and patience in the execution ; 
they are then to be determined, labelled and fixed in a box in cree 
to be baked, an operation essential to their future preservation ; and 
lastly they are to be placed in proper order in the drawers where 
they are to remain, with the names of the a and genera affixed 
to them. 
“The drawers in which the Eepidogtors aid Coleoptera are con- 
tained, I have supplied with strips of soft pithy wood to receive the 
pins of the insects; but having exhausted my supply, in preparing 
the drawers in the cabinet of the society, I have been obliged to sus- 
pend my labors until the remaining drawers shall be prepared in the 
SRG: WHY § for experience has taught me the necessity of having 
the drawers lined entirely, or partially, at least, to receive the slender 
pins used for insects and render them safe in their places. 
“The additions to the cabinet of insects during the past year con- 
sist of one box of Chinese insects, and one double box containing — 
specimens from South America, both presented by Col Baker: nine- 
ieen specimens in spirit from Calcutta, presented by Mr. Dixwell : 
one hundred and fifty one specimens from the Cyclades and Mar- 
seilles, presented by Mr. Richards: one small box of specimens 
packed between layers of paper, collected in the island of Syra, and 
presented by the Rev. J. J. Robertson: and a box of Swedish Co- 
leoptera, containing two hundred and forty one specimens from Mr. 
Fabreus of Gottenburg, sent for exchange through Dr. J. S. Copley 
Greene, in return for which, an equal number of specimens has been 
selected from our duplicates and sent to Mr. Fabreus. 
‘¢Mr. W. W. Wood of Manilla, from whom the society received, dur- 
ing the last year, three boxes of exceedingly valuable insects through 
the kindness of Mr. Russell, has in reply to a letter from me, offered 
to collect and send to us more insects from the Phillippine islands, if 
we will furnish him with boxes, pins and camphor ; and I would re- 
commend the society to embrace’ his liberal offer, and supply him 
with the means of executing it. 
‘Dr. Zimmerman, the author of a work on the Carabide, when 
here ona visit from the South, during the last summer, received 
~ from Dr. Gould and myself a large collection of the duplicates be- 
longing to the society, in return ii which he promised to send an 
equal number of species from the Cape of Good Hope, and other 
countries, the entomology of which is not yet represented in our 
cabinet. 
