Download or read book Coleoptera (Classic Reprint) written by George Dimmock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Coleoptera Very minute beetles are gummed upon small slips of paper or of mica, and these slips then pinned in the collection. A convenient kind of slip is a narrow triangle of stiff white paper, the triangle about one-fourth of an inch long, and one-sixteenth of an inch wide at the larger end. The beetle is gummed - with a mucilage of gum tragacanth or of shellac neatly across the pointed end of the triangle, which is then pinned through its broad end, and arranged in the collection. 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.