Footnotes:
[1] If any difficulty is found in procuring plant-specimens, they may be obtained by post from the British Botanical Association, Ltd., Holgate, York. The names of dealers prepared to supply various animal-specimens are mentioned in the text.
[2] Made by dissolving one or two crystals of potassium iodide in about half a pint of water, and then adding iodine in small quantities until the solution is the colour of sherry.
[3] Lord Avebury, The Pleasures of Life (Macmillan).
[4] Prof. Comstock.
[5] Cheap glass tubing can easily be made soft enough to bend by heating it in an ordinary batswing gas burner.
[6] Greek, stoma, a mouth.
[7] In a large terminal bud the cone often ends in a tiny pink spray, which gives rise to a branch of beautiful flowers when the bud unfolds. In this case no further growth of the main axis of the twig takes place.
[8] Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher (Smith, Elder & Co.).