An Open Letter to You. 



I wish to call your attention to one fact which, were you person- 

 ally acquainted with me, might not be necessary. It is this, viz: 

 The Museum has eome to stay. 



You will agree with me that there is no magazine of this char- 

 acter east of the Rockies, that pretends to be illustrated. You will 

 also agree with me that the illustrations are of scientific interest 

 I also feel that you will agree that 12 numbers like this one prepaid 

 are worth $1.00. The next step then is to put a $1.00 greenback in 

 a letter and address to the publisher. 



Yon may say that it is common practice for all 'yearling" maga- 

 zines to say, "We have come to stay," etc, and that I guess I will 

 wait six or eight months and see how it pans out then. To these 

 doubters I will add — Send on your dollar and if you don't get 

 twelve numbers in the next twelve months as good as this one, you 

 can have your money refunded. 



In forthcoming numbers I propose to have some finely illustrated 

 articles on other Land and Marine Curios, Mollusca, Minerals, 

 mainly crystalized forms of special interest, Palaeontology, etc. In 

 fact, no matter what you are interested in I shall give you a great 

 big $1 worth. If you are not in the least interested in the maga- 

 zine you will do some friend a favor as well as myself by handing 

 same to him, Fraternally, 



WALTER F. WEBB, Publisher, 



Albion, N. Y. 



