One, I remember, was conveyed into the Natural History Department, and was taken into custody by Mr.Adam White who pronounced it to be Anobium pertinax.

I never heard of it after." The reader, who has not had an opportunity of examining old libraries, can have no idea of the dreadful havoc which these pests are capable of making.
I have now before me a fine folio volume, printed on very good unbleached paper, as thick as stout cartridge, in the year 1477, by Peter Schoeffer, of Mentz.

Unfortunately, after a period of neglect in which it suffered severely from the "worm," it was about fifty years ago considered worth a new cover, and so again suffered severely, this time at the hands of the binder.

Thus the original state of the boards is unknown, but the damage done to the leaves can be accurately described.
The "worms" have attacked each end.

On the first leaf are 212 distinct holes, varying in size from a common pin hole to that which a stout knitting-needle would make, say, <1/16> to <1/23> inch.