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arranged by me, but when the time had arrived when 

 I could not devote the necessary time to this work the 

 Committee were very fortunate in finding a man at 

 once capable and willing to continue the work of 

 making this collection. My friend Martin E. Mosely, 

 to whom these lines refer, has not only persevered 

 himself in collecting, identifying and arranging the fly- 

 fisherman's insects, but he has succeeded in enlisting 

 the sympathy of anglers all over the country. In 

 many cases not only has he enlisted the sympathy of 

 fishermen, but he has persuaded them literally to take 

 off their coats and collect a great number of specimens 

 with such particulars as he has required in each case. 

 If, as seems quite likely, this work continues on the 

 same lines and under the same able supervision for a 

 few years, I venture to predict that the collection in 

 the cabinets at the Fly-Fishers' Club of the various 

 insects in which we are interested will be the best in 

 the world. 



For the information of any fisherman desirous of 

 collecting and preserving these insects for reference, 

 the specimens in two of the three cabinets are mounted 

 in the 2 per cent formalin solution referred to in what 

 are called solid watch-glasses, i.e. slabs of plate- 

 glass half an inch thick and about two and a quarter 

 inches square, with a circular hollow cell about two 

 inches in diameter worked in the centre of each. 

 When the insect is in place, the solid watch-glass, 

 brimful, is covered with a square of flat glass which is 

 securely cemented to it. 



