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APPENDIX. 



of a common garden hoe, and suspending a bag from it, so as to collect 

 the material loosened by the blade of the hoe. 



The accompanying cut sufficiently 

 _j?3^^v\ explains a small collecting forceps which 



Ois useful for picking live bees, wasps, 

 cggggr\ an d the like, from flowers. The frame 

 ~^SsSa i s O f w i r e. The blades are covered 

 A COLLECTING FORCEPS. witn netting. 



The water net figured herewith is 



made of a loop of heavy wire, a wooden handle, a strip of muslin, a 

 shallow bag of grasscloth or scrim 

 or other netting, and some small 

 wire for binding and bracing. The 

 loop of wire is formed as shown in 

 the figure : the crossed ends of the 

 wire are bent at right angles to the 

 plane of the loop, and are placed in 

 grooves in the sides of one end of 

 the handle, and are wrapped there 

 securely with smaller wire. Two 

 grooves are filed in the wire of the 

 loop at different points for the secure 

 attachment of the braces, as shown 

 in the figure. The narrow band of 

 muslin is sewed to the loop, and the 

 netting bag to the muslin, and the WATER NET : a, handle ; 6, loop 



net is complete. It is quickly used, of wire 5 c > completed net, side 



... , , , i i view; N, completed net, from 



and easily cleaned by a backward above; ^ brace; e> muslin 



push through the water. band ; /, netting bottom. 



ACCENTUATED LIST OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS USED 

 IN THIS BOOK, TOGETHER WITH THEIR ETYMOL- 

 OGY AND SYNONYMY. 



ab-do'-men (Lat. abdomen), belly. 



ab-o'-ral (Lat. ab, from, and os, oris, mouth). 



ac-e-tab'-u-lum (Lat. acetabulum, vinegar vessel?). 



ad-am-bu-la'-cral (Lat. ad, to, and ambulacrum}, next to the ambulacra. 



ad-duc'-tor (Lat. ad, to or toward, and ducere, to draw). 



ad'-i-pose (Lat. adeps, adiposus, fat), fatty. 



a-er-a'-tion (Lat. aer, air), exposure to air; oxygenation. 



