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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. 1 have seen spirit of ammonia applied 

 in the same way, but the former is decidedly preferable. 



'PIN MONET. 



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 — whicli is more 

 than I could do until a few years ago, having never till then even passed 

 through 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 for- 

 warded to the head-(iuarters 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 numbers are as follows: — No. 11, price sixpence an 

 ounce; 'So. 13, sixpence; No. 5, one shilling and threepence; No. 17, two 

 shillings and ninepence; No. 15, three shillings and threepence; No. 18, three 

 shillings. Of these, the largest-sized are only for the largest-sized Sphinges: — 

 for by all means you should incline to putting a too small in preference to 

 too large a pin into any insect : or for putting out the antennae with ; being 

 long and fine, and larger ones being incommodious for the small interstices 

 that will sometimes be found to be left among the card braces. 



In no case use any but entomological pins. "A maxim worth remembering 

 I assure ye." 



