160 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES, ETC. 



Woodward, A. L. — Unpressed mounting of the Tongue of the Blow-fly. 



[" While it is an easy matter to catch and decapitate your blow-fly, unfor- 

 tunately he will not always protrude his tongue properly during the 

 operation, and my experience is that the tongue remains for ever after 

 fixed in the position that it happens to be in when life in the fly becomes 

 extinct. To remedy this, I tried the plan of immersing the living insect 

 in alcohol, and with perfectly satisfactory results. At the moment of 

 death the tongue is forcibly protruded to its entire length. Even the 

 short proboscis of the house-fly is satisfactorily displayed. I tried carbolic 

 acid in the same way, but the results were not nearly so good, and, 

 besides, alcohol is a much nicer fluid to handle,"] 



Amer. Hon. Micr. Journ., IV. (1883) p. 239. 

 Weight, L. — Microscopical Mounting. 



[Impossibility of procuring insect preparations " mounted in a really first- 

 class manner,'' &c.l 



Engl. Mech., SXXVIII. (1883) pp. 343-4 (2 figs.). 



