SOLUTION OF CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE. 115 
out by Haworth, in speaking of the Oak Moth (Bombyr Quer- 
cus). ‘ It isa frequent practice with the London Aurelians,”” | 
says he, “‘ when they breed a female, of this and some other | 
day-flying species, to take her, whilst yet a virgin, into the 
vicinity of woods, where, if the weather is favourable, she never | 
fails to attract a numerous train of males, whose only business | 
seems to be an incessant, rapid, and undulating flight, in search | 
of their unimpregnated females; one of which is no sooner | 
perceived, than they become so much enamoured of their fair 
' and chaste relation, as absolutely to lose all kind of fear for 
their own personal safety, which, at other times, is effectually 
_ secured by the reiterated evolutions of their strong and rapid | 
_ wings. So fearless; indeed, have I beheld them on these oc- | 
casions, as to climb up and down the sides of a cage which | 
contained the dear object of their eager pursuit, in exactly the | 
same hurrying manner as honey-bees, which have lost them- 
selves, climb up and down the glasses of a window.” 
CHAP. VII. 
| RECEIPTS 
FOR VARIOUS ARTICLES USED IN THE PRESERVATION AND | 
SETTING UP OF ANIMALS, 
SOLUTION OF CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, 
Mr Waterton’s Method. 
Put a good large tea-spoonful of well pounded corrosive 
sublimate into a wine-bottle full of alcohol (spirits of wine). 
Let it stand over night, and, the next morning, draw it off into 
a clean bottle. When the solution is applied to black sub- 
stances, and little white particles are perceived on them, it 
will be necessary to make it weaker, by the addition of some 
alcohol. 
A black feather, dipped in the solution, and then dried, will 
