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PUBLISHERS NOTICES 



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The Guide to Nature wants a sub- 

 scription agent in every community. Will 

 our friends please recommend desirable 

 persons for this remunerative work. 



A PUBLIC EXHIBITION. 



When you get a really sharp negative 

 of a good nature subject, the best method 

 of showing the positive to a company of 

 friends is to have a colored lantern slide 

 made by Charles Beseler Company, New 

 York City. 



This company also makes high grade 

 stereopticon slides with a large variety 

 of subjects, and rents or sells them in 

 sets or singly. 



THE PREMO CAMERA. 



The editor of The Guide to Nature 

 has used almost every grade and size of 

 Premo camera. Many of the illustra- 

 tions in this magazine and in his articles 

 in other magazines have been made with 

 a Premo. It is compact and convenient 

 —a good "all round" camera. 



For an all day's tramp in the haunts 

 of nature, the film pack is a great saver 

 of weight. Twelve films may be carried 

 in the space of an ordinary holder. 



THE KODAK IX NATURE. 



It is a very simple matter to use a 

 kodak, that is, so far as hands and me- 

 chanical skill are concerned. The manu- 

 facturers have done everything possible 

 to make every grade of kodaks simple 

 in construction and convenient to use. 



But to make the use in nature really 

 worth while, to have the hand camera 

 a means in studying, to make it depict 

 things of value, is a more difficult task. 

 The article by Mr. Howes in this issue 

 is suggestive. This is to be followed by 

 others on the use of the kodak. The 

 Guide to Nature will be pleased to 

 have other suggestions along this line. 



THE BIRDS AT HOME. 



Bird nesting is now at its height. The 

 birds have settled down as permanent 

 residents. Now is the time for intense 

 enthusiastic study, and an eight power 

 stereo, made by the Bauson & Lomb 

 ( )ptical Company is an instrument with 

 which to see them. The managing edi- 

 tor of Thfc Guide to Nature cordially 

 recommends this "glass," because he has 

 used it for several years and knows of 

 its efficiency and superiority over all 

 other forms of binoculars. 



PRIZE ARTICLES OX AQUARIA. 



Readers of The Guide to Nature 

 doubtless saw the offer of a prize for 

 articles on aquaria, — page 68 of the May 

 number. Aquaria may be obtained from 

 any dealer, but in the writer's experience 

 those supplied by the Kny-Scheerer Com- 

 pany, New York, are convenient, at- 

 tractive and efficient. Dr. G. Lagai is a 

 born and trained naturalist. He knows 

 just the kind of supplies of all kinds that 

 are useful to a naturalist. Write to 

 him for his new catalogue. It contains 

 lots of good things. 



THE MODERN GUN. 



There is a fascination in creeping up 

 to rame, taking: aim, firing;, and then 

 bagging the victim. Theorize and study 

 all we may, there still remains with 

 most men, vestiges of the original hunt- 

 ing instinct. It is not essential nor even 

 commendable to eradicate the instinct,— 

 but to guide it into modern methods 

 freed from cruelty. One of the best in- 

 struments for this purpose is the natur- 

 alists' reflex camera. It emulates the 

 bow and arrow, and the gun of powder 

 and shot. One has "to take aim" and 

 "fire" in much the same manner. The 

 "game also is bagged in the twentieth 

 Century manner, the best of all ways. 



