. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. The Capture, Preparation, and Preservation of Specimens. and fastened as at n; groove to catch tongue; s, s, top and bottom; c, cork. is manufactured for the purpose of lining boxes. Turf com- pressed into sheets about half an inch thick and covered with paper is used by many European collectors. Sheets of aloe-pith or of the wood of the yucca, half an inch thick, are used, and the pith of corn-stalks (Indian corn or maize) may also be employed, laid into the box and glued neatly to the botto
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. The Capture, Preparation, and Preservation of Specimens. and fastened as at n; groove to catch tongue; s, s, top and bottom; c, cork. is manufactured for the purpose of lining boxes. Turf com- pressed into sheets about half an inch thick and covered with paper is used by many European collectors. Sheets of aloe-pith or of the wood of the yucca, half an inch thick, are used, and the pith of corn-stalks (Indian corn or maize) may also be employed, laid into the box and glued neatly to the bottom. The corn-pith should be cut into pieces about half an inch square and joined together neatly, covering it with thin white paper after the surface has been made quite even and true. Cork is, however, the best material, for, though more expensive than the other things named, it has greater power to hold the pins, and unless these are securely fixed and held in place great damage . FlG: 67.—Detail draw- , . , . , ing of box, in which the is sure to result. A loose specimen in a box tongue, 7, is made of strips will work incalculable damage. Boxes should of .zi?c let into a Sroove be made of light, thoroughly seasoned wood, and should be very tight. They are some- times made so that specimens may be pinned both upon the top and the bottom, but this is not to be commended. The depth of the box should be sufficient to admit of the use of the longest insect-pin in use, and a depth between top and bottom of two and a quarter inches is therefore sufficient. Boxes are sometimes made with backs in imitation of books, and a collection arranged in such boxes presents an attractive external ap- pearance. A very good box is made for the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture and for the Carnegie Muse- um in Pittsburgh (Fig. 68). This box is thir- teen inches long, nine inches wide, and three inches thick (external measurement). The depth between the bottom and the lid on the inside is
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