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ornaments, skin dresses, &c., by insects. Pure napthaline is 
pleasant to work with, and if placed in cases with feathers or 
skins, will prevent moth from entering, though it is scarcely 
powerful enough to destroy them once their operations have 
begun, unless in very tight-fitting boxes. Carbolic paper is 
also a preventative, and can be obtained in rolls. It is often 
better to reject an object infested with moths or weevils, than 
to pack it with uninjured specimens. 
Articles of pottery will require special precautions in pack¬ 
ing. If paper be obtainable, each piece should be enveloped, 
so that, in case of breakage, all the fragments will be found 
together. Hay, dry grass, crumpled paper, or raw cotton, will 
serve for packing, and provided that there is some of the 
material between the pots, the more tightly they are packed, 
the greater is their security. Never use sawdust for 
packing. 
C. H. R. 
No. LXXVL—PAPER SQUEEZES. 
The requisites for taking squeezes are (i) Tough paper, 
unsized. Special paper is made for this ; but any tough, 
thick wrapping paper, such as plant collectors use, will 
do; and newspaper may be used. (2) Bristle brush ; 
the best form is the long narrow one made for 
washing carriage wheels. (3) A basin or bucket of 
water. Wash the surface of the stone, or other 
sculptured material, removing every trace of sticky clay, 
&c., and leave enough water on it to hold the paper by 
capillary attraction ; dip the paper in water and lay it on 
the stone (having first torn it to the right size), leaving a full 
amount to go into any deep hollows ; then press the paper in 
by the hands if the sculpture is deep. Begin to beat it with 
the brush in the middle, and proceed outwards ; as the paper 
expands in beating, it is well not to get it fixed at the edges 
first. It should be beaten over only a few square inches at one 
stroke, and the beating must be continued, in spite of the 
