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NOTES 
ON 
THE COLLECTING AND PRESERVING 
OF 
COLEOPTERA. 
By T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. 
To offer suggestions, to the incipient Coleopterist, of such 
a general and practical character as shall enable him, whilst 
in pursuit of his objects, to realize as far as may be possible 
the old saying (albeit applied to a different subject) of 
Delectant domi, non impediunt forts ; 
or to point out the various localities to which his attention 
should be turned, and in which his labours are the most cer¬ 
tain to be crowned with success, is no easy task; and yet, 
without some tolerably definite instructions on these heads, 
much time and many valuable opportunities are apt to be 
lost. To attempt to indicate, however, the locus quo of the 
numerous families which compose the Coleopterous world 
would, in a limited space, be absurd, seeing that almost every 
spot, and combination of circumstances, has its own tale to 
tell. The collector, indeed, who would turn his researches 
to the best account, must be on the qui vive eveiywheie. 
Nevertheless, there are unquestionably certain places and 
conditions which experience has shown to be pai excellence 
adapted to his purpose, and of these we will now speak. 
