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fronts French polished; they are 
glazed with good flat glass, and 
nicely corked and papered. The 
whole cost was about £8. If any 
person wishing for a cabinet will 
send me the order, I shall be 
happy to forward it, or to answer 
any questions on the subject. — J. 
E. Hall, Hassocks Gate, Hurst- 
pierpoint, Sussex. 
Rounded Setting-corks . — I much 
admire your leading article of the 
20th respecting insect cabinets at 
a lower price, and I think at the 
same time there is something you 
have omitted mentioning, namely, 
the very high price charged for 
rounded corks for setting Lepi- 
dopterous insects on, for I think 
there are very few young begin- 
ners that can afford to pay from 
a Is. to 2s, 6(7. for a rounded piece 
of cork, which is the price asked 
at the insect dealers for them, and 
I think if the prices where any- 
thing within bounds more persons 
would take up with Entomology 
than now do. I have made all 
m3’ orvn setting-corks, breeding- 
cages, and larva boxe.s, and shall 
be most happy to show them, and 
instruct any young entomologist 
how he can make them at one- 
third of the price charged at the 
dealers; likewise my much ad- 
mired pinuing-box. — W. H. 
Latchford, 1 , Plumbers Place, 
Clerkenwell ; December 2, 1856. 
Write before sending any Boxes. 
— I have received several boxes 
containing sj)ecies which I do not 
now want, so parties had better 
write before they send any boxes 
to me. Several species I have 
run through, and I do not want 
to receive any insects without a 
return on my part. I shall be 
glad to attend to all as far as my 
limited time will allow me, and ne 
one need think anything about 
not hearing from me for a few 
days. I wish it distinctly to be 
under.stood I only want extra-fine 
specimens of any species noted in 
my “ wants,” because I already 
po.ssess complete series, and have 
in duplicate many that I have 
noted as wanting, only I want to 
replace the specimens with better 
ones. — .1. B. Hodgkinson, 16,. 
Bolton Street West, Preston ; De- 
cember 2, 1856. 
Greedy Collectors . — I had the 
good fortune last summer to cap- 
ture those rare moths the Sila- 
eeous Pet, the Saucy Beauty, the 
Crescent-bearer, the Allsopia pa- 
leales, and one or two other 
equally fine things, and T exhi- 
bited them at a meeting of the En- 
tomographical Society. 7'he next 
day 1 was surprised, not a little, 
by two letters begging I would let 
the writers have fine specimens of 
mv rarities in exchange for some 
rubbish or other, I forget what, for 
1 put the letters in the fire. I 
fancied it was rather strange that 
two str.ingers should write at the 
same time for these insects : I had 
never been so served when col- 
lecting other objects of Natural 
History than insects, but I, it 
.seems, had something to learn. T 
told a friend about the circum- 
stance, and he said it would be 
wonderful if you had not been 
written to. Said I, “ ^^’hy I have 
not told you the names of the 
writers.” “No.” said he, “ but I 
know them ; thepartiesalwayshunt 
together ; they generally get on 
the seem at the same time ; they 
are like S and T in the alphabet, 
close to each other. Avoid such 
men ; all they want is to enrich 
