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X. DESCRIPTION OF A CONVENIENT INSECT CASE. 



[From the Fifth Annual Report on the Insects of Missouri, 1873.] 



For beauty and security, and the perfect display of the larger 

 Lepidoptera, I have seen nothing superior to a box used by Mr. 

 Lintner, of Albany, N. Y. It is a frame made in the form of a folio 

 volume, with glass set in for sides, and bound in an ordinary book 

 cover. The insects are pinned on pieces of cork, fastened to the 

 inside of one of the glass plates ; and the boxes may be set on end, in 

 library shape, like ordinary books. For the benefit of those who 

 wish to make small collections of showy insects, I give Mr. Lin trier's 

 method, of which lie has been kind enough to furnish me the follow- 

 ing description : ** 



Figures A, B and repre- 

 sent, in section, the frame- work 

 of the volume ; A showing tl 

 ends, B the front, and C the 

 back. The material can be 

 prepared in long strips of some 

 soft wood, by a cabinet-maker 

 (if the collector has the neces- 

 sary skill and leisure for fram- 

 ing it), at a cost of sixty cents 

 a frame, if a number sufficient 

 for a dozen boxes be ordered. 

 Or, if it be preferred to order 

 them made, the cost should not 

 exceed eigh ty cen ts each . Be- 

 fore being placed in the hands 

 of the binder, the mitering 



should be carefully examined, 2 



and any defect in fitting remedied, so tl]at the glass, when placed in 

 position, may have accurate bearings on all the sides. The interior 



* The description was originally intended for one of the State Museum Reportg, 

 but, at the request of Mr. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri, it was sent to him 

 for publication in his Fifth Report, and by his permission it is here republished. 



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