Excerpt from The Scottish Naturalist: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Zoology, With Which Is Incorporated "the Annals of Scottish Natural History" A practical hint which promises to be of service to the collector of Butterflies and Moths is given by Winston St A. St John.1 It is a common experience to find upon opening one's store-box that some of the specimens have relaxed and their wings drooped after they have been carefully set and stowed away. To obviate this disappointing result the author recommends the use of formaldehyde (popularly known as His method is to place the setting-boards, with insects thereon, in a fairly air-tight box containing a piece of cotton-wool soaked with a 40 per cent. Solution of the fluid in question. This is the ordinary strength as sold commercially. This should be done about a fortnight after the specimens were set, and they should be left in the box for a week, after which time they may be transferred to the store-box or cabinet permanently fixed in position. The sterilising effect of the formalin is another advantage, and the only point to be raised against the procedure appears to be the impossibility of changing the style of setting once the specimens are fixed. It is for the collector himself to decide whether a permanent and unalterable setting is desirable or otherwise. A paper by Edmund Selous, entitled Ornithological Observations and Reflections in Shetland,2 may be read with advantage by those who are interested in the bird life of Scotland. It is made up of the author's own observa tions on the habits of several species inhabiting the lochs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.