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843. The best colour is green ; as to shape of 

 coat, the common shooting jacket is by far the 

 most convenient. There should be ample cross 

 pockets outside, on the hip ; also several breast 

 pockets, particularly two (at least) very small 

 ones for glass vials containing spirits, to stand 

 upright in ; these should be inside the left breast 

 of the coat, so that the right hand can conveniently 

 reach them. 



844. Close to these vial pockets, and sewed 

 into the stuff of the coat, should be a large pin- 

 cushion, containing two or three different sizes of 

 pins, so arranged, in three columns, that the hand 

 might at once take of either kind without the 

 assistance of the eye to direct it. Two sizes of pins 

 are all that are generally required ; but a third 

 kind, very slender indeed, is used for very minute 

 moths. 



845. There are three shops in London, and 

 perhaps more, at wliich pins are sold expressly 

 for the use of entomologists : these arc, Bew's, in 

 Newgate Street, Durnford's, in Gracechurch Street, 

 and Hale's, in the Dovor Road ; but the art of 

 making pins is not yet arrived at sufficient per- 

 fection to satisfy the entomologist. The universal 

 fault is, that the heads come off, and then the 

 insect on the pin cannot be moved without great 

 risk. 



846. The principal implements of the collector 

 are boxes and nets. The boxes should be of 



