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PUBLISHER'S NOTICES 



Tis not in mortals to COMMAND success, but we'll do 

 more, Sempronius, we'll DESERVE IT. — Addison: Cato. 



Doing Rather Than Saying. 

 Our readers know that this magazine 

 stands for correlation of nature study. 

 We believe that outdoor interests are not 

 so readily correlated with school studies 

 as with muscular activities. A good ex- 

 ample of this, published in our October 

 number, was that of boys in a New York 

 City school who were making flying ma- 

 chines. Ry experimenting with these, 

 the boys learn many things about the 

 atmosphere that they could not learn 

 from books or from words. A good set 

 of tools should be regarded by every 

 school as necessary in the study of na- 

 ture. Ry these, may be made not only 

 aeroplanes but many other appliances 

 useful in nature study. Among such are 

 nets, plant boxes, terraria, cabinets for 

 specimens, bird houses and small cages 

 for pets. The boy's outfit of tools 

 may be obtained from Hammacher, 

 Schlemmer & Company, Fourth Avenue 

 and Thirteenth Street, New York City. 

 We are all familiar with this address as 

 it is advertised in this magazine. Send 

 to them for catalogue and full particu- 

 lars. One of these outfits has been set 

 up in Arcadia and is a valuable part of 

 the equipment. The nature study that 

 we represent is exemplified by the motto, 

 "Do things efficiently rather than say 

 things correctly." 



Convenient Ornithological Sheets. 



W. W. Grant has designed very con- 

 venient ornithological sheets to facili- 

 tate the recording of field observations, 

 hoping that they may induce many bird 

 lovers to take to the fields. The blanks 

 and the outlines of birds are so 

 arranged that observations may be 

 quickly recorded in the field, and later 

 compared with any of the standard 

 text-books, or with other works of ref- 

 erence. 



Prospering Opticians. 



All students and lovers of nature who 

 are interested in the portrayal of their 

 favorite subjects before large audi- 

 ences and, of course, interested in all 

 methods of doing it, will congratulate 

 the cause, and the Chas. Reseler Com- 

 pany of New York City, upon the in- 

 creased demand for stereopticons and 

 lantern slides that has made their busi- 

 ness grow so rapidly that they have 

 moved uptown to no East Twenty- 

 third Street. Here this enterprising 

 concern is displaying a very large sup- 

 ply of all forms of projection appar- 

 atus and lantern slides, making it a 

 very attractive place for all interested 

 in optics. The Schwan light is meet- 

 ing with marvelous success, as it 

 should, because it is brilliant, steady 

 and inexpensive. In some respects 

 this light is better for indoor work with 

 the camera and photographing small 

 objects than is any other form of illum- 

 inant. 



Am delighted with the magazine and 

 the work you are doing. — Miss Fannie 

 E. Blakely, Brooklyn, Nezv York. 



The Guide to Nature is deserving 

 of financial success. — L. L. Duerden, 

 Port Washington, Long Island. New 

 York. 



It seems to me that The Guide to 

 XaturE is on the road of very steady 

 improvement, and I congratulate you 

 upon it. — Dr. R. II*. Shufeldt, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



I like The Guide to Nature very 

 much. You have my hearty co-ooera- 

 tion in teaching the people how to 

 entertain themselves, something so 

 many seem devoid of. — /. G. Crawford, 

 Albany. Oregon. 



