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stones and within logs. One cannot help thinking that possibly 
some species of Hymenoptera, which now altogether build ele- 
vated nests, once built them near the ground, and being forced 
for a long time by conditions surrounding them, similar to these, 
finally acquired that habit permanently. 
This would seem more plausible if General Lewis is correct in 
a fact which he states, that the yellow-jackets along Holly Creek, 
in Pender County, build nests on the bushes to avoid the tide. 
I mean to investigate this and see if they are the same species 
which under ordinary circumstances build nests in the ground. 
—Geo. F. Atkinson, Univ. of N. C., Chapel Hill, July 7, 1887. 
_ A New Form of Vial for Alcoholic Specimens.—Frequently 
in Natural History museums it is desirable to display alcoholic 
specimens in vials placed in a horizontal position. This is true 
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mological cabinets, where the insect-boxes are in the form of 
the vial in place in an entomological cabinet, a white 
- Card is : i i 
2 d is fastened to its lower side with liquid glue (the acetic acid 
y means of these projections the bottle can be 
Tes in place with small pins 
: pins. ‘ 
Mould for these vials is the property of Cornell Univer- 
