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lay it, glue side up, on the table or another newspaper ; apply the sheet of 
mounting paper and rub as before. With reasonable care, this method gives 
the most excellent results.—A. B. Seymour. 
Liquid fish glue is unequaled for herbarium use. It is now offered for 
sale in the stores as Le Page’s Liquid Glue, in small tin cans, at 75 cents per 
can. It can be obtained of the Denison Manufacturing Company, Milk street, 
Boston, for 35 cents per pint, or in five gallon lots at $1.65 per gallon—with an 
antiseptic added to prevent spoiling. To be sure that it shall not spoil, add a 
few drops of carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate—A. B. Seymour 
Disposition of thick specimens.—It is a problem what to do with thick 
specimens—rough-dried Hymenomycetes, puff-balls (which are valueless if 
p » acorns, cones, etc. Minute specimens, like the Myxomycetes, Asper- 
gillus, wes which are likely to suffer from pressure, are easily preserved in shal- 
low pill- Msi glued to the herbarium sheets ; but this plan will not do for the 
larger things I have mentioned. I think I have solved this problem, so far as 
my wants are concerned, by having heavy pasteboard boxes made, with deep 
covers reaching nearly to the bottom. These boxes are two, three and four 
inches deep, to accommodate specimens of different sizes, the smallest being 
most needed, and measure outside 114 x 16} inches, so that they may set in the 
herbarium case. To facilitate their removal, each is provided with a strong 
double tape passing through the front and bottom and spread on the latter be- 
neath the paper lining. These boxes are “spaced” withia by small boxes of 
. Several sizes, to meet different needs, the largest of these being two to four times 
the size of the smaller, so that they are interchangeable at will. To keep out 
the all-pervasive smoke and dust of St. Louis, these inner boxes are covered by 
a folder of heavy manilla. Boxes of this description, reinforced at the angles 
with muslin, are made for me by the Holman Box Co., of this city, for $15.00 
per hikdred. The “spacing ” costs about $12.00 per hundred additional. By 
using them, the acorns, say of a section of white oaks, are grouped in a box im- 
mediately under the covers containing the mounted specimens, and so in the 
Same seep laa of the case with them.-—W1LL1AM TRELEASE. 
SMALL FRUITS, cones, etc., and especially for the Myxomycetes and 
other aay which have to be preserved in little boxes, I provideshallow boxes 
11}x 16} inches, and one inch deep. In these I ser the species boxes. 
e larger boxes may be used as genus boxes, in case the ies are numerous 
enough. Ido not do so yet, but may have to before long. Pat the label on the 
front end of the box and slip it into the herbarium case in its proper place.—C. 
E. Bessey 
EDITORIAL. 
THE PREPARATION of this number has given us more than usual pleasure 
on one account especially. This is in respect to the hearty codperation with 
which the botanists of the country have aided the undertaking. They have 
contributed liberally, and when for any reason a contribution was not possible 
