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THE 
Jfmmtal, 
A Monthly Medium for Collectors and Students of Natural History. 
LONDON: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 
VOL. II., No. 18 . 
DECEMBER 1893. 
Price 2d. 
THE RECOGNISED MEDIUM OF 
T3H3S PRACTICAL NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY, 
Edited by H. K. SWANN. 
With the assistance of Albert H. Waters, b.a., &c., A. Ford and H. Durrant. 
COMTBKTTS. 
PAGE 
A Glimpse at the Cabbage & 
some Cabbage Eaters . 73 
Practical Hints on Collect¬ 
ing Coleoptera . 75 
Notes on tile Gloucestershire 
Lepidoptera. 77 
Hints for the Month : Pupa 
Hunting; Lepidoptera; Cole¬ 
optera . 79 
Notes and News. 81 
PAGE 
Field Clubs and Societies.... 83 
Rural Notes and Observations 85 
Correspondence : Late Nesting 
of the Ringdove ; A Crane in 
Suffolk ; Exotic Moths in Not¬ 
tinghamshire; A Curiosity ; The 
Aquarium ; The Preparation of 
Skins. 86 
To Correspondents. .. 88 
Book Notes . 88 
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