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Nets of various kinds; a seine of about seven feet long with a bug 
in the middle, will be found most useful for fish. Also a small 
pocket net for insects, &c, but strong enough for fishes. Some gauze 
nets for insects. 
A casting net will be found useful in fishing. 
Pocket vial for collecting insects when on a land exploration, and 
for small invertebrata when on the sea shore, or on the bank of a river 
or lake. 
Pocket box lined with cork, for collecting insects which cannot well 
be immersed in spirits. 
Larger boxes into which the contents of the preceding may be 
transferred. 
A vial of ether, and 
A few ounces of camphor, for killing insects, ether being used in 
the pocket vial and camphor in the box. 
Insect pins of assorted sizes. 
Blank labels of paper with strings, for plants and skins of animals. 
Unsized paper for plants ; a ream or more. 
Portfolio with straps. 
Labels of parchment for animals in liquids. 
Hundred or more lino bags of various sizes, p. 14. 
Ten or more yards of lino. 
India rubber bag, p. 14. 
2. FOR PRESERVING. 
Knives, p. 5. 
Two pairs of scissors, p. 5. 
Needles and threads of various numbers. 
Twine. 
Hook with loop, p. 5. 
Arsenic (powdered), five or ten pounds put up in several tin can- 
isters. 
Corrosive sublimate (powdered), about half a pound. 
Alcohol in a small keg or tin can. 
Tartar emetic or ipecacuanha. 
Alum. 
Saltpetre. 
Common salt. (The three latter substances will hardly be required 
with plenty of alcohol and arsenic.) 
Cotton 6*r tow. 
