282 GRAMMAR OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



CHAPTER V. 



OF ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINETS. 



906. A wELL-made cabinet is of the greatest 

 importance to the entomologist ; he must attend 

 personally to the building of it, unless he meets 

 with a cabinet maker, who has had previous prac- 

 tice in the art. 



907. A cabinet should consist of about thirty 

 drawers in two tiers of fifteen each ; it should be 

 made of the best mahogany ; the wood should be 

 particularly well seasoned ; the drawers should be 

 enclosed in front by two folding doors, meeting in 

 the middle. 



908. Each drawer should be about fifteen 

 inches square, and two inches deep, for English 

 insects ; about eighteen inches square, and two and 

 a half inches deep, for foreign insects, on account 

 of their superior size ; it should be covered at the 

 bottom with soft cork, and then neatly papered. 



