THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 186.] SATUKDAY, APRIL 28, 1860. [Price Iti. 
GREASE, 
No sooner is the word uttered than, 
as a matter of course, our facetious 
friends go oflF with — 
“ The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! 
Where burning Sappho loved and sung," 
and, after torturing further quotations 
from Byron, and plunging into the 
works of Grote and Dr. Wordsworth, 
lugging in sundry quotations, turning 
them to a purpose for which they 
were never intended, and extracting 
from them a meaning foreign to their 
authors, finish their intellectual gyra- 
tions with a horrid old joke about 
“made upon the spot.” .Well, we must 
risk all this, bear with it, and let it 
evaporate, regretting the necessity that 
forces us to advert to the subject. We 
thought it had been exhausted, and 
that a question would never again be 
asked about it, hut it would seem that 
our young collectors are not a reading 
race, else they would be fully up to the 
discussions about “Grease in Cabinets” 
that have taken place at the Entomo- 
logical Society’s meetings on several 
occasions, and have been published in 
the Society’s ‘Proceedings.’ “A Tyro” 
writes as follows; — 
“ Some of my insects, especially the 
large Sphingiua, are much attacked 
by grease. Would you kindly, through 
the medium of the ‘ Intelligencer,’ in- 
form me how to get rid of this? It 
would doubtless oblige others beside 
myself.” 
First, then, a prevention is better 
than cure ; the bodies of all large 
insects should be opened on the under 
side while they are yet fresh, the in- 
side parts removed, and the space 
filled with blotting-paper or cotton-wool 
soaked in camphine or benzine-collas. 
The next point to be observed is not 
to place any insect in a box or cabinet 
until thoroughly dry; an interval of 
days or weeks, according to the size of 
the insect, must elapse before it is re- 
moved from the setting-board. When, 
notwithstanding these precautions, an 
insect becomes greasy, remove it and 
place it in a piece of cork previously 
fastened at the bottom of a shallow tin 
or jam-pot; pour in camphine or ben- 
zine-collas until the insect is covered, 
and let it remain for twelve hours. 
Then take out the insect, place it 
upon blotting-paper for a few minutes, 
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