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DESCRIPTION OF A BOX FOR COLLECTING 
AND TRANSPORTING LIVING INSECTS, ETC. 
By E. N. PAVLOVSKY, M.D., Sc.D., 
Professor at the Military Academy of Medicine , Petrograd. 
K (With 6 Text-figures.) 
When collecting small living animals, particularly insects or other small Arthro¬ 
pods, for dissection, or search for parasites, etc., one encounters difficulties 
in choosing a suitable and convenient arrangement in which the animals may 
be kept without injuries until they are brought home. The usual entomological 
corked glass tubes and wide-mouthed jars with a gauze cover are not prac¬ 
ticable when a large number must be carried; their bulk hinders free movement, 
and their fragility renders it necessary to pack them carefully in a box or 
other suitable containers. 
In the summer of 1911, I was shown, at the Natural History Museum, 
Simpheropol, a very convenient apparatus for the collection and dispatching 
of Arthropods, which had been sent from Uriev by Prof. K. K. Saint-Hilaire. 
Unfortunately, I have not been able to discover the name of the inventor of 
the original model, a description of which I have never met with in the 
literature. Having convinced myself, during four years’ experience of its 
use, of the valuable qualities of this apparatus, I have made some alteration 
in its construction, which I believe will render its application wider, and have 
decided to publish a description. If ever I should succeed in discovering the 
name of the author of the original model, I shall publish a supplementary 
note to that effect. 
The model received from Prof. Saint-Hilaire consisted of a flat wooden 
box, 48*5 cm. in length, 34-5 cm. in breadth, and 5*5 cm. in depth. The 
interior of the box was divided, by eight longitudinal and five transversal 
partitions, into 40 rectangular compartments (Fig. I). The bottom of the box 
was formed of a sheet of wire gauze of 0*5-1 mm. mesh, while the lid was 
constructed and firmly fixed to the frame of the box. In the wood at points 
corresponding to the centre of each of the 40 compartments a circular aperture, 
2*8 cm. in diameter, had been bored. Each of these openings was closed with 
a cork. The apparatus, as described, is very convenient for collecting and 
transporting Arthropods of cannibal habits, e.g. spiders, scorpions, myriapods, 
