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PUBLISHERS NOTICES 



WELCOMING NEW FRIENDS. 



With this issue "The Amateur Naturalist," Ashland, Maine, is 

 merged into The Guide to Nature, as explained in the following letter 

 from the editor and publisher of that magazine: 

 To the Subscribers of "The Amateur Naturalist:" 

 Dear Friends : 



When in January, 1904, I began the publication of 'The Amateur 

 Naturalist," it was but the consummation of a plan formed when a boy of 

 seven years I strolled with my father along the pebbly beach of Lake On- 

 tario and gathered my first collection of minerals. Then it was my 

 thoughts turned definitely toward the study of nature, and as the years 

 came and went, as my knowledge of the subject grew and my interest in the 

 unfolding the story of the great book of nature revealed in the rocks, the 

 trees, the plants, the birds, the insects, increased, the desire to publish such 

 information as I had gained and to co labor with others and increase among 

 my fellow men a love for the study of God's handiwork took form in my 

 mind and developed until "The Amateur Naturalist" began its career. 



To publish this has been a work of pleasure, but also of sacrifice. 

 "The call of the wild" has been neglected while the editor sat at the case 

 setting type or ran the printing press. But new friendships were formed, 

 the mental horizon broadened and added information gathered into the 

 storehouse of knowledge, and it is with deep regret that the management of 

 "The Amateur Naturalist" is discontinued. But business cares and duties 

 are such that the editor finds it impossible to give it the care necessary. 

 The Guide to Nature follows the same lines as was intended by "The 

 Amateur Naturalist," but does so more successfully, and brings with it a 

 larger amount of experience and a corps of writers holdinp- allegiance to a 

 strong and influential nature society — The Agassiz Association. Into The 

 Guide To Nature, "The Amateur Naturalist" is therefore merged, and to u 

 I commend all my subscribers, and while I bid "The Amateur Naturalist" 

 a farewell, as must they, we may again meet in the columns of The Guide 

 to Nature. 



Sincerely, 



Charles D. Pendell, 

 Editor and Publisher of "The Amateur Naturalist." 



Important News for Mineralogists. 



We have secured a collection of ex- 

 ceptionally fine minerals collected by 

 an American professor of national re- 

 pute ; it is beyond doubt the finest col- 

 lection we have yet handled. It con- 

 sists of eight large cases of minerals 

 all of which are fine. Lists are in 

 preparation, and will be sent only on 

 application. 

 ax interesting collection of semi- 

 precious STONES. 



We secured from a bankrupt sale 

 of a well known eastern concern whose 

 specialty was the cutting and polish- 



ing of stones for mineralogists a 

 unicpie lot of cut semi-precious stones 

 of unusual beauty and rarity. They 

 must be seen to be appreciated. They 

 have been priced so low that the prices 

 do not tell the tale. We name a few 

 below; they run from 50c. to $2.50 

 each : unycite, perthite, aventurine, 

 green-trap, cinnabar, thulite, sunstone, 

 moonstone, amazonstone, chrysoprase 

 green chalcedony, sodalite, labrador- 

 ite, malachite, azurite, jade, turquoise, 

 ruby matrix, emerald matrix, rose 

 quartz, lapis-lazuli, jasper, agate, moss 

 agate, carnelian, moss opal, blood- 



