What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 271
way to kill insects is to drop theminto a wide-mouthed bottle, the bottomof which is lined with blotting-paperthat has been previously saturated withether, benzine, creosote or chloroform.When a butterfly, bug, or beetle is putinto a bottle prepared in this manner,and the bottle tightly corked, the… … Fig. 155.—^Mounting-Board, Practical Taxidermy for Boys. 243 each end, a space being left between the strips for the body ofthe insect. Under this space or crack a piece of cork is fastened(Fig. 155) in which to stick the point of the pin. After pin-ning the specim^^n to the mounting-board, spread…
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