NOTIONS, NOTES, AND ODDS AND ENDS 173 

 FORMALINE 



A warning is held out to anglers in a recent 

 number of the Fishing Gazette (loc. cit, April 

 23rd, 1898). 



Prolonged use, it is said, may cause 

 neurosis of the tissues of the nose and other 

 serious evils. 



Though the weak solution used for preserv- 

 ing minnows, or fish of all sorts, may be (and 

 doubtless is) less likely to do harm than the 

 stronger solution as sold by chemists, still 

 the warning is not to be despised. One to 

 two and a half per cent, we believe, is sufficient 

 to preserve minnows for fishing purposes. The 

 solution sold is, we believe, seventy-five per 

 cent, of formaline. 



