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advantage as you. I am nursing
the drug trade and find it
rather dry buisness all round. beside
the daily duties I manage to study
three or four hours a day. which
makes the time pass more pleasant=
=ly than it otherwise would. I am
reading Hamboldt's Cosmos now.
and like it very much. Mr. Guild
and I finished catalogueing the
Shells about three weeks ago. The
case of Homoptera I have brought
home with me. and arranged them
at my leisure. I found the specimens
very moldy and some of them badly
eaten by mothes. I prepared a
mucilage of Gum Tragacauth. with
a little Gum Arabic added. and
applied a coating of the mucilage
to each specimen with a camels hair
brush. it destroyed the mold. and
has brough out the natural
color. I think the mucilage will