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purchased but are fairly cheap and within the reach of 

 all. Never try to mount specimens with ordinary pins. 

 Aside from the pins nothing needs be purchased. Cigar 

 boxes, lined with pith or corrugated pasteboard, make 

 very satisfactory storage places for the beginner's collec- 

 tion and not a few insects in the larger collections are 

 stored in such receptacles. From these one may go up 

 the scale through the homemade boxes with either glass 



FIG. 119. Details of the Frame Work for an Exibition Case to be Made 

 at Home or in the School Laboratory. 



or wooden cover, the homemade or purchased cabinet, 

 with drawers for the specimens, the specially made box 

 of the "Schmitt" type to the most modern metal boxes in 

 metal cabinets. Very cheap and serviceable exhibition 

 cases with glass tops, suitable for home use or for the 

 rural or even the city school, may be made at home or 

 by the local carpenter. Get at any planing mill some 

 strips of "nosing" about two and three-quarters inches 



