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THE PRESERVATION OF CATERPILLARS BY INFLATION.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Extract

Many persons are deterred from collecting caterpillars by the difficulty and expense of preserving them in the ordinary way. The easy and inexpensive method of blowing up and mounting the pellicle is so little known in this country, that at the last meeting of the American Association, only one entomologist besides myself had ever seen the operation; since then others have tried it, and been delighted with its simplicity. In the hope of inducing all our entomologists to experiment for themselves, the following explanation of the process hes been prepared.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1874

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* The engraver should have made this loop hang from the edges of the oven.

* To prepare this, the sheets of dark shellac should be preferred to the light, and dissolved in forty per cent. alcohol.