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26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"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 the contents bit by bit until the whole is nearly removed, or until you can see the brilliant colour shining through what remains in the cavity--better leave a little too much than be too nice in clearing all away; then, with a blowpipe, distend the empty abdomen; it will very soon become firm, and retain its original form, but until it is so the blowing must be frequently repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I found the best way to preserve spiders was to suspend them by a loop round their waist in a solution of glycerine 2/3, water 1/3. The solution may want changing once or twice at first, after that it will keep unchanged for years."
}
]
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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": "soap, or soda and water, will often remove a great deal of the grease. Chloride of lime and water will assist the bleaching, but must be managed cautiously, or in careless hands it is likely to do more harm than good. The making of good and nicely bleached osteological preparations really depends on carefulness and neatness, supplemented by water, air, and sun; by the three latter aids, I have repeatedly improved in a wonderful manner"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "especially"
}
]
|
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 brush. Sulphurous acid was used for bleaching them, and this liquid was also employed with much facility for the removing of the stains on the fingers caused by the permanganate of potash."
}
]
|
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. Simply file to a point, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "with a small"
}
]
|
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 contents are blown out or sucked up into the bulb, which, when full, is emptied out at the other end. It sometimes happens that the egg is"
}
]
|
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",
"value": "A History of British Birds,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How to Work with the Microscope; Lankester's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Half-hours with the Microscope; Hon. Mrs. Ward's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Microscope; Davies"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects; G. E. Davis'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Practical Microscopy; Gosse's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Half-hours with the Microscope; Wood's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Common Objects of the Microscope;"
}
]
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26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
]
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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 wire drying cases, and to"
}
]
|
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 dry, exposed to the light, which makes the bichromated gelatine perfectly insoluble, even in boiling water, and thoroughly prevents the escape of any glycerine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is especially good in histological researches, as it acts like osmic acid, burning up the protoplasm, bringing out the minutiae, and showing the nuclei, outlines of cells, etc. It is used as a saturated solution in distilled or very pure spring water; sea-water also dissolves it. The concentrated solution, of a lovely violet colour, kills small organisms at once, and then burns them. They are left in it from thirty minutes to an hour, then withdrawn, and placed in alcohol, after which they can be made transparent with essence of terebinth and mounted in Canada balsam. Beautiful results are thus obtained with echinoderms, zoophytes, worms and marine arthropoda. For delicate researches, especially in the ciliated infusoria, it is better than osmic acid, without its great cost, and is everywhere easily obtained."
}
]
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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 the upright now on its side and repeat the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "allowing for just missing the point of intersection. Fig. 39 shows a section; the dark part is the wood left, the dotted squares show where the wood has been removed; the corner A, outside the dotted line, is afterwards rounded off. Each upright is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
]
|
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"
}
]
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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, which is then pasted or cemented to the edges of the board, and finally finished off by dropping over all picture-frame moulding, cut and joined to size, to which the back is screwed. This style does either for fishes or dead game to stand upon a hall table, or easily becomes a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "by the simple process of screwing on"
}
]
|
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 taste, the taxidermist may easily make as many patterns as he chooses by doubling a piece of brown or stiff paper and cutting his shapes out therefrom. One of these paper patterns may be traced around upon a piece of planed wood of the suitable size, and cut out by a"
}
]
|
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 (says he) to soak the smaller shells in cold water (without salt), before killing them, as they swell out with the water, and do not when dead retreat so far into their shells."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manual of the Mollusca, by Dr. S. P. Woodward, J. Gywn-Jeffreys'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "British Conchology, Lovell Reeve's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "British Land and Freshwater Mollusks,"
}
]
|
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",
"value": "Handbook of the Marine Aquarium, and many others. Two recipes, culled from the Scientific American, 1879, may be of service, however:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheap tanks can be made of wood and glass, the frame and bottom being of wood, and sides of glass. In order to make the joints watertight, care must be taken to get a proper aquarium putty or cement. The following is a good recipe: Put an egg-cupful of oil and 4 oz. tar to 1 lb. resin, melt over a gentle fire, test it to see if it has the proper consistency when cooled; if it has not, heat longer, or add more resin or tar. Pour the cement into the angles in a heated state, but not boiling hot, as it would crack the glass. The cement will be firm in a few minutes. Then tip the aquarium in a different position, and treat a second angle likewise, and so on. The cement does not poison the water."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To mend the broken glass of an aquarium, fasten a strip of glass over the crack, inside the aquarium, using for a cement white shellac dissolved in one-eighth its weight of Venice turpentine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MOUNTING,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at animals in action, or engaged in some characteristic occupation. The days of birds on"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "stiff-legged, long-necked and staring, round-eyed, at nothing--of mammals, whose length and stiffness are their greatest merit--has passed away for ever; and only in dreary museums, far behind the age, where funereal silence obtains, and where the dust of mummied animals arises to awe and half poison the adventurous explorer, are these"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "magnificently modelled. I was pleased, however, from an artist's point of view, to discover that we in Leicester could give them a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Roland for an Oliver in our white-throats, together with their nest and young, surrounded by a modelled bramble-bush in blossom; and with our swallows in section of a cow-house--neither of which groups have yet been attempted for the national collection. I am trembling with apprehension, however, that ere long Mr. Sharpe and his"
}
]
|
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 Europe for coloured plates, and Routledge's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wood's Natural History for uncoloured plates of many mammals, birds, and fishes; those signed by Coleman being especially artistic and natural. Add to these Cassell's new"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Natural History,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Proceedings of the Zoological Society, and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ibis, for coloured illustrations of animals--often in characteristic attitudes, and which, with the above-named works, fitly replace the more ancient"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of animals, arranged on the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "system, and from which instead of nature, our taxidermists took their original ideas; indeed, the English school, with true British insularity, would, I presume, have continued the mounting of animals by this"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "method, had not the Germans and French broken rudely in on our slumbering taxidermists at the Great Exhibition of 1851. [Footnote: Is it not singular that even now anything stiff, inartistic,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(i.e. clumsily) made, or behind the age, is cherished with the utmost veneration, as being a proof of the solidity of our"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old English Methods"
}
]
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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 mounted on puppies as horses, some tumbling at the water-jump, others riding to win, some unhorsed, scrambling after their steeds, and so on;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Battle of the Nile, frogs on rafts of leaves of water plants, attacking one another with small bulrushes; duel scenes;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Courtship and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Matrimony ;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fortiter in Re, a young frog soundly smacked (in the most approved fashion) by the irate paternal frog; the companion picture,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suaviter in Modo,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dirty boy! or, as in the Fisheries Exhibition of 1883, as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Enthusiast"
}
]
|
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 crouching for a spring on some feeding animal; lion and zebra; panther or jaguar crouching on an overhanging tree-trunk; leopard killed by a gemsbok antelope; polar bear killing seal on ice; lynx creeping over snow upon grouse; wolf leaping with fore-legs in air on receiving his death-shot; fox in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "fox just missing a pheasant or duck by only securing the tail feathers; two foxes fighting; fox and playing cubs; fox and trapped rabbit (after Ansdell);"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heads and Tails,"
}
]
|
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 good work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hooded Crows Tracking a Widgeon, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wounded Tern, fallen by its eggs, were two other clever groups--said to be"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "though how on earth such things can be copyright I do not know, especially as not one of the things exhibited could be called original; indeed, everything I saw at the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fisheries,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "groups--excepting the foliage, which was rather"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--was, however, very clean and nice, and favourably compared with work by other taxidermists, many of whose"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As I looked and wondered, I felt that a first-class assortment of injurious epithets applied to such"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and think he has nothing to learn directly he can set up a bird or mammal, or anything else, in a fairly respectable manner. The people who know everything, and imagine they cannot be taught, are just the people who know very little and who will never learn more."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Duffers they are, and"
}
]
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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,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am a young professional, as the case may be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your work interests and delights me. May I look around?"
}
]
|
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": "British Natural History Room at South Kensington, and as is now exhibited in the Leicester Museum. I remember getting foliage done for me many years ago for such groups, and I believe Mr. Shaw, of Shrewsbury, did it long before I copied his lead. Who was the original inventor of this system I know not, but I shrewdly suspect we have to thank French artists for this. Let it be thoroughly understood that I do not intend to disparage the beautiful work done for South Kensington by the various gentlemen and artists interested, but I merely point the adage,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing new under the sun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not allude to stamped leaves in various materials, sold at so much (or so little) a gross, and used to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Country quite fifty or sixty years ago, but that which has arisen on its ashes in response to the cry for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and because of the impossibility of getting any other natural flowers than"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or any other leaves than those of grasses and ferns (mentioned in the last chapter), to dry for decorative, or, as we say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Practical Taxidermy"
}
]
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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"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Rod . and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Gun, remarkably cheap, mounted as screens in framed bamboo. The first represented a string of large fresh-water fish depending from a branch of a tree, a creel, a rod, a landing-net, and other angling gear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Gun"
}
]
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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 points driven through their webs until the pair of wings--the butts or shoulders placed inward--assume the shape of a long oval; the tail is fully spread by the same means, and wings and tail are"
}
]
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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; monkeys, bears, ibises, owls, eagles, etc, as"
}
]
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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 these things, though very curious, and really striking if well done, are steps in the wrong direction, and on a par with the use of humming and other birds for ladies' hats--all of which adaptations of natural history objects to commerce inexpressibly"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to hang up, or in a narrow oval shade with carved oak or other stand; or they may be scientifically and artistically mounted, to show the life-history of any one species, by arranging the larvae feeding on a properly modelled representation of its natural food-plant, the imagines, male and female, with some few striking varieties, shown at rest or flying, as also the eggs and the pupa-case, with a description of their economy affixed. A few specimens of families or genera of insects shown thus is, to my mind, of far greater importance, especially to museums, than mere"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Collecting Lepidoptera, Rev. Joseph Greene's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Insect Hunter's Companion, and many others, including a little work on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Collecting Butterflies and Moths"
}
]
|
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 unsportsmanlike weapon, rapidly going out of date--if not deceased already--and is fitly replaced by the Continental, or"
}
]
|
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 is needed to do this neatly, especially with such dashing, fast-flying moths as the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Emperor, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bee Hawks."
}
]
|
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 called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--to be subsequently affixed. About a yard of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "suffices for the bag, and the pieces which come off the bottom during the operation of rounding it, form"
}
]
|
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 frequently instantaneously killed mice and even rats. In fact, the volume of poisonous vapour evolved from one of these bottles is such, that I advise my readers not to take"
}
]
|
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"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to the depth of 0.5 in.; from the outer edges of this groove B the board should be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
}
]
|
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 the insect when placed in the cabinet to be well clear of the paper, and is the mode now generally adopted by those entomologists who effect a compromise between the ridiculous English low setting and the Continental"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What the real objections are to this latter setting it has always puzzled me to discover, unless it is the true British objection to anything foreign or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "French."
}
]
|
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. The objection to this"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "lies in a nutshell: it looks"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "a fair trial, and not to be deterred by the sneers of any novice. It may strengthen my pleading and terminate the hesitation of the young entomologist if I mention here that the officer in charge of the collection of lepidoptera in the British Museum--the well-known authority, A. G. Butler, F.L.S, etc.--is not only setting all newly-received butterflies and moths in precisely the fashion advocated above, but is actually re-setting all the old"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "specimens of rarities, or he may find that he has purchased, at the expense of some pounds, perhaps, a reset continental type worth as many pence. I fancy I see our would-be entomologist shaking his head and very sagely saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no! I intend to collect all my insects myself. My young friend, let me tell you that you will have to collect far beyond the prescribed threescore years and ten if you would yourself collect all the British lepidoptera. Work, therefore, in collecting as hard as you can, and when you want a rarity to fill up a void in your cabinet, go at once to some respectable dealer and ask for a continental type of the insect you want, place it in your cabinet, label it"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Foreign, and when you can replace it with an undoubted"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Britisher"
}
]
|
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, the pin should not be run into the groove just above the slips. If run into the cork anywhere else, the pin can be pushed through to any depth required, and, as a rule, the slips are so high that, when the board is laid down on a table, none of the pins touch the table."
}
]
|
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 abdomen is again distended and dry. Some insects which are narrow at the"
}
]
|
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, equally with its normal position. The carcase, or part into which the drawers fit, either by runners or in grooves by tongues attached to the drawers, should be made so truly that No. 1 drawer should fit in the place of Nos. 15 or 30, and vice versa, and all should"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "back when pulled out half way. The drawers should be looked by"
}
]
|
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 settled by the thickness of the bottom, a groove runs all around, except at the back, which is cut out up to the bottom edge of the groove. The bottom, when corked and papered, fits inside the frame,"
}
]
|
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. William Smith, of Dulltown, Blankshire, captured a splendid specimen of a butterfly, which a scientific gentleman to whom it was sent pronounced to be the small tortoiseshell Vanessa, etc. Now the fact is, that Urticae merely came out for an airing, awakened from its winter sleep by the extraordinary warmth of the day, and it might just as likely have been"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "on the preceding Guy Faux or Christmas-day; all the Vanessidae, and many others, being hybernators. Far different, however, is it when any of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whites"
}
]
|
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 spread under the bush, and those which do not fall at first may be shaken off the blooms with a smart stroke or two of a stick. If the bushes are not high,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "come in more often than the safer method of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
]
|
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 barrel, and accordingly carted it off into the woods, and was rewarded by rarities previously unknown. A sage subsequently conceived the grand idea that the virtue resided in the sugar and not in the cask, and afterwards came the idea of an improved"
}
]
|
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": "Crimson Underwings"
}
]
|
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 mouth of the drum over the insect which, in nineteen cases out of twenty, flies towards the gauze. We then seize the opportunity to close the valve, and pushing the corked piston represented at the right side of the figure against it, once more open the valve, and force the capture up to the gauze, through which it may be pinned, and the piston should then be withdrawn with the insect stuck upon it."
}
]
|
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 penchant for the sugar, and may, by this means, be enticed within our reach; and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Purple Emperor"
}
]
|
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 thickest parts of woods or shrubberies, but under skirting trees or in avenues. The best times for pupae are from October to January. Many people attain great proficiency in finding--the Rev. Joseph Greene, to wit. For my own part I must confess that I have never"
}
]
|
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": "gpt",
"value": "Death's Head, the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spurge,"
}
]
|
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 the individual--that I prefer to leave it an open question, merely making the general statement that nearly all our advanced systems are founded upon the labours of German and French entomologists. [Footnote: Mr. Wm. Wesley. Essex Street Strand, London, publishes monthly a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Natural History Book Circular,"
}
]
|
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"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I allude to those odds and ends which people do not want themselves, and which are, therefore, so kindly brought as an offering--would I might say a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "men, as the Americans so aptly put it--"
}
]
|
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "collected by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Handy-Andy from the field of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arrah-na-Pogue,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My Grandfather's Clock,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "who ate cold savage and who--horresco referens!--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here you'll see the Duke of Vellington at the battle of Vauterloo, with the blood all a-runnen down his fut, ' or of poor little"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Totty (in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Helen's Babies ), who loved to hear about"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B'liaff and his headlessness, and the sword that was all"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is, I think, one of the mistakes which most museums fall into. They collect a vast quantity of rubbish utterly useless to anyone but a schoolboy or a showman, and in consequence they find valuable space wasted to make way for tops of teapots, bits of leather, Kaffirs' or Zulus' knives made in Sheffield, native ornaments, in beads and brass, made in Birmingham, and such-like members of the great family of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All such as these should be firmly and respectfully declined without thanks. [Footnote: When I first came to the Leicester Museum I was requested to present to the Museum and enclose in a suitable receptacle--No. 1, a piece of thick leather, which the donor thought"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and No. 2 a teapot lid with no particular history, only that--as the dame who brought it phrased it--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "simply because the national collection, with which they are not on"
}
]
|
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cases, which I am sure have been lost sight of by all but the makers of such articles. These are--first, that if deal, or pine, or common cedar is used to make the cases with, they will shrink, lose colour, or be easily chipped or dinted, becoming in a short time useless and shabby; and, on the other hand, if made by first-class makers out of good mahogany, afterwards blacked or"
}
]
|
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