The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 294
operation of settingout. Our next step is to prickthe under side of the thoraxwith the one-nibbed pendipped in the saturated solu-tion of oxalic acid, and afterhaving pierced the outerskeleton, to turn the nibhah0 round, that the poisonmay enter the wound. Thecapture may then be trans-ferred to the… … PKIVET HAWK MOTH. may both be utilised. If thenecessary that this receptacleshould be formed of some metallic substance, of which zinc isto be preferred, owing to its properties of relaxing the contents—a peculiarity due, as we believe, to arsenical impurities—andthe cork lining should be wetted…
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