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Excerpt from Field and Forest, 1878, Vol. 3: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Natural Sciences
The first 15 made by fastening two strips of wood, about a foot in length, and an inch and a half in width, to two uprights of the same hight, leaving an open space of half an inch between 5 thin strips of cork, are glued, on underneath, through which the pins are thrust. 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.