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the Note-Book of a Naturalist." It describes a series of excur- 

 sions afield, with inquiries into the appearance, dispositions and 

 habits of bees, ants, spiders, crickets, moths, and a great variety of 

 insects, detailed in a scientifically accurate but familiar and fasci- 

 nating style. Numerous well-engraved original illustrations, after 

 drawings from nature (except some comical character-drawings by 

 Dan Beard, showing the humorous side of insect life), add much 

 to the instructive value of the work. 460 pp., well indexed, 

 $2.50. Will be mailed to any member of the Agassiz Association 

 on receipt of $2.00 by the publishers, Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 

 27 Park Place, New York. 



Every Chapter of the association, in its library, small or large, 

 should secure the best works for reference on subjects in which it 

 is interested. BRADLEE WHIDDEN, 41 Arch street, Boston, 

 publishes some valuable books on birds and taxidermy, insects, 

 mammals, the microscope, botany, mosses, lichens, algae, shells, 

 marine life, minerals, and kindred subjects, which workers some- 

 times need. Maynard's " Butterflies of New England," with 232 

 colored plates, $7.00 ; Brooks' " Hand-book of Invertebrate Zool- 

 ogy," $3.00; Behisns' "Guide to the Microscope in Botany," 

 $5.00; Whitman's "Methods in Anatomy and Embryology," 

 $3.00, bear heavy-sounding names, but are most useful and instruc- 

 tive. Haeckel's "Visit to Ceylon," $1.75 ; " Manual of Taxid- 

 ermy," $1.25; "Birds' Nesting," $1.25; "Naturalist's Assistant," 

 $1.50; " Life on the Seashore," $1.50, are just as useful and easy 

 to understand. Catalogues sent to any one on application, or 

 these books can be had through all booksellers. 



Mr. George O. Simmons, No. 352 Gates avenue, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., has prepared two very complete collections of minerals, 

 which are arranged in cases in convenient form for reference. 

 One of these, prepared expressly for the entertainment and in- 

 struction of children in schools and families, is the "Diamond" 

 Mineral Collection, 10x6 inches in size. This collection consists 

 of fifty natural mineral specimens (mostly of the industrial vari- 

 eties), classified according to the system recommended by Prof. 

 J. D. Dana, in his " Manual of Mineralogy." It contains fifty 

 specimens, arranged in a neat pasteboard box, the names of the 

 species being printed underneath. The specimens are all of good 

 quality and size, and exhibit well the characteristics of the min- 

 erals. A neat eight-page descriptive manual goes with the col- 

 lection, the price of which is $1.50, postpaid. The same collec- 

 tion, consisting entirely of massive (uncrystallized) specimens, 

 furnished for $r.oo. The " Student's Complete Mineral Collec- 

 tion " is one of great extent and variety, and is accompanied by 



