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may be useful. Laurel leaf will kill many, but a nice cyanide 

 bottle may be made by filling a large-mouthed bottle for a 

 quarter of its depth with plaister of Paris, moist, and before it 

 sets insert a few pieces of cyanide. When it is hard and dry, 

 a piece of blotting paper may be cut to the required shape and 

 put on the top of the plaister. Keep well corked and you will 

 have no more useful instrument in your collection. Beetles and 

 all hard insects may be well killed by putting them for a few 

 seconds into absolutely boiling water, which kills instantaneously. 

 But above all do not forget to make a proper record of date 

 and place of capture this is imperative ; any other data you 

 like to add, e.g., meteorological conditions, food plant, peculiar 

 habits, will be very valuable. It only remains to say that 

 Lincolnshire with its varied conditions of soil and level, with 

 its sea board and varied climate, should be a very good county 

 indeed for entomology. The few localities in which I have 

 worked have invariably yielded good results. I need hardly 

 say that I shall be glad at any time to name and report upon 

 beetles, and possibly other inseds ; and I am quite sure that I 

 can add that any of the various sectional secretaries of the 

 Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union will be glad to do the same. 

 The insects can be sent in quills or glass tubes in small boxes 

 easily through post, the return postage being sent with them if 

 they are to be returned. A report upon them will then be sent 

 to the sender at the first opportunity. 



A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A COUNTRY 

 PARISH ; 



With some notes relative to the effefts of game preserving on its 

 Natural History. 



By MRS. C. E. JARVIS. 



PART I. 



THE parish of Hatton contains 1831 acres, of which 

 about 270 are woods. It belongs entirely to one 

 owner, who rears from 1000 to 2000 pheasants 

 annually. In the adjoining parishes game is also preserved, so 

 that the effect on animal life is about equal for some miles 

 round. The soil is mostly stiff* clay but part is sand. 



