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14. STORE BOXES. To completely secure the 

 success of the Collector, particular attention to 

 the nature of store boxes, and the packing of 

 insects, is of the utmost importance, as care- 

 lessness in the proper fixing of the insects, or 

 defective boxes, will, in a short time, ruin the 

 labours of many years' research. We have, 

 with much regret, seen many valuable insects 

 completely destroyed by not attending to these 

 minutiae. The boxes should be about two feet 

 long, fourteen inches wide, and five inches high, 

 divided down the middle, so as to open like a 

 backgammon-board, with a cell at each end, for 

 the reception of camphor ; a ledge of half an 

 inch should rise on the inside of the lower half, 

 to exclude dust and minute insects. The boxes 

 should be made of yellow deal, and previously 

 to putting the insects in should be well saturated 

 with spirits of turpentine, as the effluvia arising 

 from it will tend to keep off any living insects 

 that might injure those which are preserved. 

 The boxes must be lined with a sheet of cork at 

 the top and bottom; or, what is more economi- 

 cal, slips of cork, about half an inch wide and 

 and a quarter thick, may be placed at the dis- 

 tance of an inch from one another, and glued 

 down to the box, A still simpler plan may be 



