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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 sufficiently, 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 injiata,) the Reed, (Armido,) and 

 the Sallow, (SalLc.) 



NoTA Bene. — Some kinds of wood are very injurious to specimens contained 

 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. 



p. f AWfCETT, ^NGRAVBR AND J^RINTER, pRIFFIELD. 



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