THE GUIDE TO XATURE.— ADVERTISEMENTS 



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 CORPORATION 



SOUND BEACH, CONNECTICUT, Box 84 

 NEW YORK CITY, 1 Liberty Street 



Summer Bungalows and Cottages for Sale and 

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Telephone Connections. 



The nerves of the earthworm transmit 

 impulses at the very slow rate of an inch 

 a second. Certain large nerves, however, 

 attain to the more respectable speed of a 

 vard and a half in the same time. One 

 hundred feet a second is the rate m man. 



The Pleasure of Expression. 

 There is a joy in expressing one's 

 self in words, and a pleasure in the use 

 of one's skill in the act of doing thmgs. 

 In making a collection, the naturalist 

 expresses his desire to collect, and it is 

 often with pride that he shows the re- 

 sults of that expression to his friends. 

 The same principle applies to the 

 photographer that desires to express 

 his ability to portray nature on the sen- 

 sitive plate. There' is the same desire 

 for expression in working with wood, 

 whether tinkering at repairs about the 

 home, or in making something new. A 

 music rack, a shelf, a box or a cabinet 

 for specimens, a chair, ^r other article 

 of furniture, is a method of expression, 

 and in the act of making there is joy. 

 As one likes to own a good anastigmat 

 lens or a modern collecting case, so 



there is a happiness in having perfect 

 tools and a convenient place in which 

 to keep them. Both of these requisites 

 are supplied by Hammacher, Schlem- 

 mer & Company of New York City. 

 Their tool cabinets are a delight to the 

 lover of tools, and what average man 

 or boy does not delight in handling and 

 especially in owning and caring for 

 reallv 8:ood tools? 



To save the fur seals, it has lately been 

 pointed out, one thing will have to be 

 done at once : that is. to put the matter 

 in the control of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. The Treasury Department tried 

 it — and made a mess. The Department 

 of Commerce took over the problem and 

 (lid rather worse than its predecessor. 

 iUit the Department of Agriculture, with 

 its 15iological Survey and its Division of 

 Animal Industry might do something. 

 Seals are, after all, not essentially differ- 

 ent from sheep or cattle or swine. The 

 methods and the men who handle success- 

 fully one sort of creature are the best 

 fitted to deal with another. 



