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THE MUSEUM. 



SETS of Gala. Gull, White Pelican, Cinna- 

 moa Teal, Green-winy i'eal, Mallard, Pintail 

 Gadvvell, CanvassVjack Duck, Avocet, Black- 

 necked Stilt, Shovelei", Little Flycatcher, 

 Yellow-head Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, 

 Coot, Cassin's Purple Finch, Western Grebe, 

 Snowy Plover and others also skins and 

 mounted birds for eggs in sets with full ilata. 

 W. H. PARKEPv, No. 244 Main St., Salt Lake 

 City, Utah. 



TO EXCHANGE:— Minerals, Fossils, Ind- 

 ian relics, old paper money, curiosities, etc., 

 for U. S. postage, revenue and department 

 stamps, if in fine condition and retail at Gets, 

 each and over. Send 5cts. for list of prices 

 we pay for I'ai'e coins and stamps and our il- 

 lustrated price lists. R. W. MERCER, 341 

 W. 4th St., Cincinuatti, Ohio. yvv4 



PRINTING!— You want some! We can do 

 it for you and will accept tirst-class specimens 

 in payment at i and i rates. If you need 

 price lists, envelopes, paper, cards, shipping 

 tags, labels, circulars or any kind of printing 

 write me and send your list. E. M. PARKER, 

 Newell, Iowa. 



MAKE OFFERS in Books, Magazines, de- 

 sirable sets of eggs foK Last of Mohicans, $.25; 

 Knickerbocker's New York, $.25; Wood's 

 Classbook of Botany, $1.50; Lyeil's Elements 

 of Geology, $1.25; "'How Plants Grow, $.50; 

 Mrs. Lincoln's Botany $.75, Elements of 

 Chemistry, $.75: Manton's Taxidermy, $.50; 

 Amatuer Trappers' Guide, $.75; Hooker's 

 Natural History, $1.00; Bird Notes, $.75; 

 Birds of Labrador; $.50; Popular Science 

 News, Vol. 27-28 at $1.00; Young Sportsman, 

 Vol. 1 No. 7 to Vol. 3 No. 7, $L00. G. N. 

 UPHAM, Colfeyville, Kans. 



WANTED:— Bald Eagle h Everglade Kite i, 

 Wilson's Phalarope i, Florida Duck ^g,. Will 

 give rare sets, old books and papers, 50 to 125 

 years old, books on natural history, etc. 

 ARl'HUR H. MILLS, West Rutlant. Vt. 



TO EXCHANGE OR SELL:— 50 copies of 

 the Youths Companion, aU ditTerent dates, 

 for best, offer in cash, natural history books or 

 specimens. P. I. NEISTER, Dell Rapids, 

 So. Dak. 



FOR SALE:— 75 first-class sets, full data, 

 at once, one-half Standard Catalogue rates, 

 including 629, 608, 420, 724, 037, 518, 362, 364, 

 80, 51, 751, 58, 72, 71, 75, 261, 224, 373 and over 

 50 other first-class sets at a bargain. Enclose 

 2-cent stamp for-list. 200 small garnets post- 

 paid 25 cents; 25 assorted sea shells 15 cents, 

 sea moss uufioated, large bunch 10 cents. W. 

 E. TYLER, Lyne, Conn. 



RECIPES: — Send us twenty-five cents in 

 stamps and receive our written recipes for 

 preverving the various forms of marine life 

 of our coast, eight formulas in all. Recipes 

 tor making ocUogists' cement (for mending 

 eggs) and embalming fiuid with full direct- 

 ions, 25cts. postpaid, or both for forty cents. 

 SOcts. worth first class singles for 25cts. 75cts. 

 worth of marine curios 30cts. PURDUM & 

 ADAMS, Lock Box 134, Woods Holl. Mass. 



FIRTS-CLASS sets with data. Black Vul- 

 ture i, 50c ; Snowy Heron i, 20c ; Little Blue 

 Heron i. 15c; Florida Screech Owl i, 50c; Au- 

 hinga i, 40c; Florida Blue Jay i, 40c; Crested 

 Flycatcher 1-6, 22c; Loggerhead Shrike 1-5, 

 12c; Carolina Chickadee i. 20c; Red-bellied 

 W^oodpecker i\ 30c; Florida Gallinule 1-7, 25c; 

 also many others, F. C. ELLIOT, Talla- 

 hassee, Fla. 



FOSSILS, FOSSILS, FOSSILS.— Have you 



any fine fossils, large or small, all sizes, in 

 any quantity? If so, send me full list, giving 

 number, condition and price, and what you 

 wish. W. F. WEBB, Albion, N. Y. 



COLUMNS. Ti-y our exchange columns. 

 If you have anything you want to sell or ex- 

 change here is the place for it. We will accept 

 first-class specimens at one-half rates in pay- 

 ment of space in these columns 



WANTED.— Second-hand books (must be 

 good) on all branches of natural science, es- 

 pecially Ornithology, Oology, Entomology 

 and Botany. Will give good exchange in 

 publications, formula^, marine curios, skins 

 and eggs. Write at once. $4.00 worth of 

 skins for $1.75. PURDUM & ADAMS, 

 Lock Box 134, Woods Holl, Mass. 



BEHOLD!— Beautiful Butterfly picture, 

 glass 18x24, 3 inch oak frame, contains 100 

 different, large, brilliant Butterfles, all per- 

 fect, from every land. A fine ornament -for 

 l^arlor, or office of Naturalists; a whole col- 

 lection in itself. Offer it for $10 cash, or $15 

 in exchange for fine bird skins, the rarer eggs 

 in sets, Cocoons and rare Lepidoptera, and 

 sux^plies. Now is your chance to procure a 

 fine article. Send 10c for my lists, and see 

 what I offer in insects, etc. PROF. CARL. 

 BRAUN, Naturalist, Bangor, Me 



FOR SALE.— Florida Curios, Sea Shells, 

 Orchids, Air plants, Spanish moss. Over 500 

 sorts of Fancy Sea Shells, made into jewelry, 

 to sell or exchange for advertising space. W. 

 M. COLLIER, Oceanus, Banana River, Fla. 



Davie's Taxidermy. 



To any one purchasing from us during July 

 and August, goods of any discription, from 

 our new catalogue, to the amount of $20, we 

 will make them a present of the $10 edition 

 of the above work. 



Sl'ECIAL GOODS. 



Five Shot, Pistol Collecting Gun $3.95 



Auxiliary Barrel, 12 guage,aud outfit. . . . 3.00 

 Day Butterflies and Dusktlyers, illustrated .50 

 Beetles of New England, "... .50 



Trees and Shrubs, " 50 



Ferns and Evergreens, " 50 



A natural Fox head stulTed looking out 

 from a clump of x'ocks, suitable to hang 

 on the wall, very pretty and attrac 

 tivc onli/ 1.25 



FRANK B. WEBSTER CO., 

 Museum and Naturalists' Supply Depot, 



Hyde Park, Mass. 



