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Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 255
shrivel and shrinkwhen placed in it without preparation. The careful and methodical German collector preparesbeautiful, if frail, specimens by first squeezing the insidesout of the baby butterflies, and then with a blowpipe madewith the nozzle fitted over a fine straw, and worked by abladder filled… … Fig. 223.—Caterpillars. Hints for Collectors 229 The perfect insect—that is, the full-grown winged but-terfly or moth—may also be preserved in alcohol, afterthe manner described for the larvae, but the most artisticand beautiful specimens are the dried ones. Common-Sense Needed. The best specimens…
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