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HINTS TO YOUNG ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
required, and when filled may be put into the turpentine-box with those 
pill-boxes which contain any not likely to injure themselves by fluttering, 
such as Tinece, which must be put into the other tin-box to keep cool till 
your return home, when they may be killed by the fumes of sulphur. A 
number of small phials with their rims ground down, and well corked, and 
a piece of hollow Elder, with a plug, and the ends of the quills, should be 
secured with waxed silk. 
13. Pill-boxes. —As they are liable to be crushed and the covers to come off, 
three or four dozen of different sizes should be papered round the edges with 
a thin paper, and inside if the covers do not fit well. Holes should be 
pierced through them from the inside, to allow the fumes of sulphur without 
opening the lid, at the risk of losing the insect. The boxes should be num¬ 
bered, and if a few were made of tin they would not be crushed. They 
may be carried in the hat, with a handkerchief over them, to prevent their 
rolling about. But the best way is to put those intended for sulphur into— 
14. The Tin Box (an old gun-powder cannister with a lid) till you get home, 
and the tin box with a double lid, and a strainer near one end, with a 
sponge or coarse woollen cloth for spirit-of-turpentine or ammonia (Mr. Deck’s 
plan), which answers well for small Hymenoptera, &c., and will even kill 
Libellulce and Locustce. 
15. Pins. —The Swedish and Russian pins are the best made, the heads are 
very firm and round, but they are too long and slender. The heads of the 
small English pins are very liable to come off (and then the insect runs 
great risk of being spoiled). These may be secured by heating their heads 
in the flame of a candle, and dipping them in sealing-wax (lead colour, or 
as near that colour as possible). Silver pins should be used for those most 
liable to grease. The makers are Durnford, 36, Gracechurch-Street, and 
Hales, 15, Great-Dover-Street, Southwark. 
lb’. Pin-cushion , should be suspended round the neck, and put under the waist¬ 
coat ; only moderate sizes should be taken out, Tortrix and Tineoe will do 
at home. 
17- Pliers, Tweezers, Setting Needles, Needles and Thread, Scissors and Camel’s- 
hair pencils, should be carried in (18) a heather Case like a surgeon’s, and 
a little (19) Gum-water, or in a wooden ink-horn made secure to prevent 
the gum-water from leaking, or like what the Excise-men use, with a glass 
tube down the middle. 
20. A little isinglass mixed with the gum or Priest’s Diamond Cement, and (21) 
some fine Card paper cut into small square pieces, will be useful. 
22. The Pliers , &c., may be had of Knight, Foster-lane, Cheapside. 
