“These are real insects, etc , mounted in balsam on 3?in. square glasses, to show in the ordinary magic lantern. They include ants, centipedes, fern leaves, glow-worms, grasshoppers, lantern flies, locusts, birch tree leaves, sea weeds, skin of snake, etc.”
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