cotton in a box; or, having secured the specimens with cotton plugs, you can pack the corkless vials, upright, into pint preserving jars, like asparagus spears in a can, fill the jar with alcohol, and seal it with a rubber ring. In either case, the container must itself be packed in a strong wooden or corrugated cardboard heavy species, further precautions may be necessary. A specimen of great weight may, if jolted violently, pull its pin free and go banging about among the rest of the collection working wholesale havoc. A simple method of preventing this is shown in fig. 16 Pin the specimens into a box, spacing them as evenly as possible. Drive the pins into the cork until they strike the bottom. Since the pins are of uniform height, their heads will then stand level. If an in- sect's body is long, brace it with an extra pin on either side to prevent it from swiveling about upon its pin, should it be shaken loose. Cut a piece of card- board to fit the inside of the box exactly. If you like, you can equip it with a pair of adhesive tape tabs or a string loop handle, by which to lift it. Put this into the box, resting on the heads of the pins. Fill the space between the card and the top of the box with packing, and shut the lid. Now the pins simply cannot work free. An occasional leg or antenna which was loose when packed may come off in transit, but that should be the full extent of the damage. This method of packing is risky unless the pins are thick enough to be rigid. The force needed to drive the pins through the cork and the strain put upon them in pulling them out, to say nothing of the pressure of the packing upon any which might be slightly higher than the others, are sufficient to bend a fine pin like a bow. And, like a bow, when the tension is released the pin will straighten with a snap, breaking Fig. 15. Diagram of a jar of alcoholic specimens packed for shipping. box large enough to permit of its being completely surrounded by a layer of excelsior or crushed paper several inches thick, as shown in fig. 15. If it is necessary to ship more than one jar in a box, separate them by a layer of packing. Do not make the boxes too heavy for easy handling. Insects packed in paper envelopes and cylinders travel well, if housed in a crush-proof container. Of the thousands of shipments unpacked in the Depart- ment of Insects and Spiders, the most consistently satisfactory have come from South America in boxes scarcely larger than cigar boxes, but made of planking half an inch thick carefully screwed together. The papered specimens filled the boxes, with no more packing than was needed to keep them from shifting. If you find it necessary to use containers of question- able strength, ship them in larger cartons, surrounded with packing, as described above for alcoholic speci- mens. Dried insects upon pins can be safely shipped in Schmidt boxes or other strong storage boxes of small or moderate size if steps are taken to prevent the pins from coming loose during the journey. With flies and other creatures light in weight it is only necessary to drive the pins into the cork bottom of the box securely. With Cicadas, large beetles, giant moths and other Fig. 16. Diagram showing a method of packing heavy pinned specimens for shipping. the insect and flinging its fragments like missiles among the other specimens. To reduce jarring and the possibility of crushing, enclose a box of pinned insects in a larger box and cushion it well. ETIQUETTE FOR THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTOR It is unfortunate, but inevitable, that any person known to be a collector of insects or spiders is re- garded by the lay public as somewhat demented. It is the manifest duty of every right-minded collector to 16