526 ENTOMOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS, &c. 
Such is the apparatus to be provided by the entomo- 
logical Nimrod: it is not often, however, that it will be 
necessary, except in distant excursions, to encumber and 
disfigure yourself with the whole. Even in this pursuit 
more may be effected by a judicious division of labour, 
than by grasping at every thing at once; and your ac- 
quisitions will in the end be more numerous, and your 
acquaintance with them more intimate, if at one time 
you devote yourself to the woods and hedges, another 
to the plains and meadows, a third to any heaths in your 
vicinity, and a fourth to the collection of aquatic imsects 
whether from stagnant or running waters :—having thus 
chosen the scene of action, you may equip yourself ac- 
cordingly. You will of course, though in pursuit of a 
particular description of game, not neglect to seize any 
other insects that fall in your way; but for this purpose 
it is unnecessary to be always provided with a certain in- 
strument. Dr. Franklin used to say that a man would 
never make a Natural Philosopher, who, in performing 
his experiments, could not saw with a gimblet or bore 
with a saw; and so we may say, he will never make an 
expert collector of insects, who on occasion cannot fish 
with his hand or forceps, use his hat or an old letter to 
beat his game into, or, in the absence of boxes or bottles, 
contrive to secure his captures in small pieces of paper 
twisted up. Sparrman, when at the Cape, was wont,— 
to the no small amazement of the wondering natives, who 
took him for a conjurer,—to stick his impaled insects 
round the outside of his hat*: and though I should not 
recommend such an exhibition in a civilized region, it 
* Voyage to the Cape, i. 63. Eng. Trans. 
