286 PRACTICAL TAXIDEEMY. 



fixed to "bolt togetlier the two halves, hooks also being fixed 

 at each end of the box to further secure the front flaps. Fig. 50 

 shows the arrangement of the box at this stage — shut, but with 

 the front flaps lifted up and down, showing the " sliding "- 

 setting boards snugly fixed within. Insects may by this method 

 be left on the boards whilst travelling without the slightest 

 risk, as nothing can come loose, and the pins of one side miss 

 those of the other when the box is shut and locked. 



A more simple plan, serving equally as well perhaps, and 

 having the advantage of dispensing with the intervening slips, 

 therefore giving more space for setting boards, is simply fixing 

 a slip of wood at each inner end of the box, and another on each 

 flap, so arranged as to hold all the setting boards down when 

 shut. This is managed by allowing the wood of each setting 

 board to protrude beyond its cork to the thickness of the slip — 

 say half an inch.* 



Insects, after removal from their " sets," require to be stored 

 in glazed cases or cabinets for greater security and protection 

 against evils previously glanced at. Some collectors content 

 themselves with using for this purpose the ordinary store-box, 

 made in the same manner as the collecting box, but of greater 

 capacity. One 15in. by lOin. by 4in. deep will be found a useful 

 size ; this — opening in the same manner as a backgammon board 

 — is corked with cabinet cork, each sheet of which is usually 

 llin. by SJin. or (double size) 12in. by 7iin. The cork being 

 glued evenly over each half of the box, is rubbed down with 

 pumice-stone, and afterwards with sand-paper, to get an even 

 surface and reconcile the joints one with the other. It is then 

 papered with white blotting-paper, toned, or black paper, pasted 

 down 0Y3r the cork with paste, in which has been previously 

 stirred a little carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate (both poisons). 

 It has also been recommended to previously steep the cork, 

 especially if for " foreign service," in a solution of — 

 Corrosive sublimate, Joz. Camphor, 1 oz. 



Spirits of wine, 1 pint. 

 Some little care is, of course, required in the handling of poisoned 

 cork, &c., but I do not write expecting that infants will be 



* This box should be made in oak or mahogany ; put together with brass screws, if for 

 • ' foreign service. " , i 



