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26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "Make an incision along the ventral aspect of the abdomen, nearly its whole length, or as long as will enable the pulpy contents to be easily removed; then pinch up the pulpy mass with a small forceps, carefully avoiding any dragging; then, with sharp-pointed scissors, cut away t... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a most convenient arrangement. The inner iron, being heated in the fire, is placed in the chamber or"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(the larvae of a beetle), to"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "part of a horse, and the bones are free from grease and fairly white. Experience, however, in this as in everything else, will tell you what to do and how to piece one system into another to best advantage. Washing the bones with Hudson's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I once saw another way of managing skeleton leaves that interested me greatly. The leaves were boiled for two minutes, and then transferred to a strong solution of permanganate of potash and gently heated. In an hour or two the laxer tissues were easily removed by means of a bru... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "part, the limbs taken off at their attachment to the body, and the whole of the flesh removed by means of the"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(oxide of tin), which rub violently on all parts of the horn with a rag and linseed oil, finally finishing off with brown paper, a soft rag, and the palm of the hand, using plenty of"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Water-Ayr or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Snake-stone,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Water-Ayr or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Snake-stone, and finished with"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "used for wood; indeed, the smallest-sized"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "made--to be procured at any ironmonger's--will do very well for eggs the size of a hen's. Capital egg-drills are to be made from"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "used by watchmakers.... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the drill between the finger and thumb, making only one hole, and that in the centre of the egg. When a nicely-rounded hole is cut, the egg must be emptied by means of an"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or blowpipe; the point being introduced into the hole, the conten... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eggs of British Birds, or Atkinson's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "British Birds' Eggs and Nests, a much cheaper, but very good little work; also to a new work by Mr. H. Seebohm (the celebrated traveller in Siberia, etc.), entitled,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the last especially, to the Dermestes beetles and their cousin, Anthrenus museorum. Try them, but don't rely too much upon them, is my advice; nor, indeed, upon anything--not excepting even corrosive sublimate. Trust only to exposure to light and constant supervision, zinc or wi... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dissolve in a water bath, and filter through cotton while warm. This cement remains fluid when cold, and dries quickly. After the ring has become set, or stiff, the whole slide is immersed for a minute or so in a 10-grain solution of bichromate of potash, and is then allowed to ... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FITTING UP."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which needs no description. Next in age is the"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "plane, set to 0.375 in,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "these out on two sides, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "still set at 0.375 in. for depth. For the front,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "out 0.375 in. from the edge, and 0.375 in. deep, this still leaves 0.375 in. out of the 0.75 in. untouched; turn t... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "one, made either in deal ebonized, or fancy woods polished. In this the glass is put in from the back with putty, or papered in, and finally held in place by"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mounts,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is made by securing five pieces of glass together in the usual manner, by tape pasted on each edge to make a square glass cover, making up the work on a piece of board of the required size, rebated or grooved all around, or by nailing on strips of wood to receive the glass cover... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of fancy wood; oak or mahogany being the best, unless ebonized and gilded pine is preferred. The shapes are usually a modification of the conventional"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "such as will be found in a pack of cards. This being purely a matter of individual ta... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Virgin"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "one colour over another to get"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FITTING up."
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "British Marine Algae,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "will dry nicely, as also will the egg cases of the whelk and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Handbooks for young collectors, advises a large spoonful of salt being added to the boiling water, for two reasons, one, because it puts them out of pain at once, and also makes their subsequent extraction more easy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a good plan (... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "plumage they delight in. Like the cats, they are"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paper fasteners"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Aquarium, its History, Structure, and Management, by Dr. J. E. Taylor, F.L.S, etc.; Gosse's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Country."
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birds of Europe; but as the price of these magnificent works places them beyond the reach of any but rich people, the amateur may fall back on Morris's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "British Birds and Bree's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birds of Europ... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bulletins"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Century magazine, and illustrations were given showing the best work of the American taxidermic artists. I must say, however, that, unless the draughtsman failed to copy what an educated eye looks for, none of this work struck me as being of a high order--one or two"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reinecke the Fox,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Declaration of Love."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Nursery Maid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shaving a Luxury."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Steeplechase, frogs mounte... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Combat (two stags fighting); the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stag at Bay, and others in connection with hunting. Lion and tiger fighting over prey; two tigers fighting for possession of a deer; head and paws of lion or tiger peeping over a rock; tiger crouchin... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Eagle's Throne"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Widowed Duck --after the celebrated picture--was one of the things very nicely rendered in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fisheries Exhibition; the painting of an artistic scene at the back of this case helped the effect wonderfully, as it usually does in goo... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That man's work knocks mine into a cocked hat, and then go home miserable, but determined to beat that man's work or perish in the attempt. Never sneak! If you see first-class work by anyone, go boldly and say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir, I am an amateur, or,... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "British birds, their nests and eggs, for sale, so that the idea is not a new one, nor is that of surrounding such groups, with proper accessories and modelled leaves and flowers, as will shortly be exhibited to the public in the new"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bri... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fisheries,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "British Freshwater Fishes,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SCREENS."
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was exhibited at the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fisheries, almost a reproduction of the woodcut illustrating the outside of Science Gossip, with the addition of a hawk striking the kingfisher. There were also two large and capital trophies, called"
},
{
"... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Screens"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for the mantelpiece may be made up from owls, hawks, seagulls, and a variety of other birds. The birds being skinned out through an opening in the back, the wings and tail are cut off and spread out on a board, with fine needle ... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to take tithe of animals for the sake of their skins, of birds for their plumes, and of insects for their silk, to be used in adornment, society demands that objects of natural history should not be all relegated to the forgotten shelves of dusty museums, but live as"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or as flower stands. Sometimes the whole head of a ram or buffalo is mounted, the horns polished, sawn in two, hinged and mounted in silver, and set with Scotch stones. Deers' heads are mounted as gas chandeliers; foxes' heads as gas brackets or as supports for Duplex lamps; mon... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ornamental Taxidermy."
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, I have known of a case in which over 1600 of the males of a certain species were caught in one day,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to all those who practise it. In this particular instance the moths were made up into"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of a snake strangling a tiger, or a crown, or the wings are cut by punches to form the petals of flowers, to be afterwards grouped under shades. All t... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "not of the construction of those mentioned in Chapter II, but made of a lighter material. They are of various shapes, the professional, or old English pattern, being something of the construction of a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "net. It is, in my opinion, a most u... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of over 5 ft. high by 2 ft. 6 in. or more wide. To use this machine, you simply stretch it to its full extent and run out in front of any insect you wish to stop, clapping it smartly together and securing your captive in the bag formed when the net is shut. Some little practice ... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and it does really"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which sew all round the ring of the net in such a manner that it does not interfere with the working of the hinge. For this purpose a strip of about 2 in. wide will be enough, which, doubled over and hemmed at the bottom, allows sufficient for the net--a bag made of the material... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ring"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or the ordinary"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hill Sliding Net."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hill sliding net,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hill sliding net,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hill sliding net"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sugaring"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death's heads even--I find nothing to beat a large bottle (a glass jar, such as the French bottle plums in, does admirably), in which is placed about 0.25 lb. of cyanide. With a killing jar of this kind, which I call the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "bottle, I have ... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To do this properly is the vexata quaestio of the day. As a nation we anciently practised the"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Setting Board"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "designed to remedy this evil. The block A is formed of a piece of 0.75 in. deal, 12 in. to 14 in. long, and of varying widths according to the insects required to be set. Exactly in the centre a groove is"
},
{
"fr... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Admiral to set with 1.125 in. or a No. 13 pin, you will find, if allowing 0.125 in. for the body, that after setting an insect in a board of this kind the matter will be pretty evenly adjusted--that is to say, about 0.5 in. of pin above and below the butterfly. This allows t... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "then, say I; plough your grooves deeper, and if you object to the flat appearance of the foreign set insects, there is no earthly reason why you should not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "your boards to the angle I show in Fig. 47, or to any other angle you desire. Th... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The grooved cork, instead of being glued to one wooden board, is fastened on to the two boards, the groove between them corresponding exactly with the groove in the cork. These in turn are held together by three slips of wood, to which they are firmly nailed. In setting insects,... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "setting, allowing the insect to be clearly seen if it be truly"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "insects, should always have the contents of the abdomen removed either by pressure, or by being cut underneath, and, when empty, injected with a little of the corrosive sublimate preparation, and afterwards filled out with wool or blown out with a small blowpipe until the abdome... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These are German-set."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, indeed, I was told,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Postal boxes,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drying houses"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the substance of the drawer itself. A fillet should rest inside, fitting against the inner edge of the frame, which should also be lined with velvet, to further exclude the dust. Drawer and frame should be made so true that the latter should fit back to front, if required, eq... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The glass is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and puttied in as a fixture on the top of the drawer, either from the inside or out. At the usual distance from the glass, to clear the pins, a strip is fixed all around the frame of the drawer. Below this, at a depth settl... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dust-joint"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blues."
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grease and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "are in fact the bêtes noires of the entomological collector. When you have an insect, therefore, old and greasy, but yet"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mitey"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Norfolk-Howard"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the mild winter or early spring, headed in the newspaper every year as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Extraordinary Mildness of the Season :"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are credibly informed that, owing to the mildness of the past week, Mr. Wil... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in the few places where Iris now resorts may be searched with advantage, yielding also a plentiful supply of beetles of various sorts. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holly Blue"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "), both male and female, must be searched early in spring time for the whole of the genus Taeniocampa and many other newly-emerged or hybernated species. As they usually drop at the first contact of the light from the lantern, the net must be held under them, or a sheet may be s... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sugar! A legend tells that many years ago someone discovered (or imagined) that moths came to an empty sugar cask, situate somewhere in a now-unknown land; and acting as the Chinaman is said to have done, in re the roast pork--thought perhaps that the virtue resided in the barre... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "intended to do what it never does--viz, keep your fingers from sticking, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "about the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peach Blossoms and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Buff Arches"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--(Do the moths fly high to the light?)--but I once had a grand capture of many specimens of the"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Showers, rain, thunderstorms, provided they are accompanied by warmth, are, says Dr. Knaggs,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buff Arches, usually first to come; in fact, during the summer months, it is perhaps as well to get the sugar on at eight o'clock, as I have known this species, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Peach Blossom and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crim... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "such dashing or unquiet insects, and to rapidly cover them with a large cyanide bottle, or, failing this, with the instrument shown in Fig. 53, which is a combination of the"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a hollow metal tube of two or three inches diameter, over one end of which a piece of gauze has been strained, while at the other end a valve, to open and shut the mouth, works in a transverse slit (shown in Fig. 54). To use it we open the valve and deftly place the mout... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at the least alarm; to prevent this, the whipcord of the net (Fig. 43 or Fig. 46), should be always pressed close to the tree to receive them. The cyanide bottle should be held with the left hand, and the insect gently"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to sweeten the toil. The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Peach Blossoms and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buff Arches"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "flat stones, rocks, or even make bundles of the mat weed, as you will have to do on the"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peacock, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tortoiseshell, the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Admiral, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Painted Lady, and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Camberwell Beauty, have a pencha... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "certainly"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which is exposing in a gauze-covered box a virgin female, who, by some mysterious power"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Country, of 2nd Oct, 1873, Dr. Guard Knaggs gave a very full account of the theory and practice of"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merrin's Lepidopterist's Calendar,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "British Butterflies and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "British Moths,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Digging in the dead months of the year, when the weather is mild, for pupae, is another method of getting insects. Corners where roots meet or spring from the trunks of trees, are good"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "are not always, as you would suppose, in the thicke... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forcing is a method adopted to cause any moth to emerge at the collector's will, and several months before its proper time, it having been proved that certain moths more than others die in the chrysalis or pupa state if left to go their full time, notably the"
},
{
"from... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and so forth, were it not that the limit of space has been reached. One thing, however, may be noted as an omission, and that is the recommendation as to what books should be procured by the young entomologist. This is so difficult a matter--depending entirely upon the aim of th... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "collections you find numbers of very atrociously-rendered mammals, a greater sprinkling of funereal and highly-disreputable birds, some extremely-protracted fishes, some chipped insects, and a lot of shells, chiefly marine, which suggest association with the word"
},
{
"... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "collected by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Handy-Andy from the field of"
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