Names of Dealers in Entomological Supplies who are to be Recommended.
John Akhurst, 78 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, N.Y.; pins, etc.
John Burr, North Fifth Street, Camden, N.J.; boxes, cabinets, etc.
Armstrong, Brother & Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; cork. The largest cork manufacturing firm in the United States. Will cut cork of any size which may be ordered, within practical limits.
Blake & Co., 55 North Seventh Street, Philadelphia; forceps.
PART VI.—GENERAL INFORMATION.
[CHAPTER XLIV.]
INSECT PESTS AND POISONING.
The Pests.—If an island of bare rock should be born to-day in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and an unpoisoned skin of bird or mammal laid down upon it to-morrow morning, I would wager that Dermestes lardarius would find that skin before sunset. If you were to prepare a skin without poison, and lock it up immediately in the bowels of a burglar-proof safe, not to be opened for six months, at the end of that time you would find it swarming with Dermestes. If you ever omit to poison anything in the shape of a vertebrate specimen, be sure your sin and the beastly bugs will find you out.