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THE MUSEUM. 



THE MUSEUM. 



A Monthly Magazine devoted to Ornithology, 



Oology, Mollusca, Echinodermata, 



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NOTES. 



Mr. Will Brown of Milton, Wis. , 

 whose adverstisement has frequently 

 been seen in our exchange columns 

 was drowned in Sweetwater Lake, N. 

 D. on May 7th. The young man was 

 21 years old and had gone to North 

 Dakota to collect skins and eggs with 

 Mr. Coon also of Milton, Wis. He 

 had gone out on the lake alone shoot- 

 ing and the particulars of his tragic 

 death will probably never be known. 



Mr. Ora W. Knight of Bangor, Me. , 

 a naturalist of considerable repute, has 

 been elected assistant instructor in 

 Natural History in the Maine State 

 College from which he recently grad- 

 uated. Prof. F. L. Harvey is at the 

 head of the Department. 



Mr. E. G. Haymond, a taxidermist 

 of Flint, Mich., intends to start soon 

 for an extended trip to Alaska. We 

 trust he may be eminently successful 

 and come back hale and hearty. 



We have an interesting photo from 

 Dr. W. M. Martin of WeUington, 

 Kansas, showing him in the act of se- 

 curing a set of Eagle eggs from a cliff 

 200 feet high in the Indian Territory 

 the past season. The cliff was a very 

 dangerous one to scale, and the Doctor 

 was kodaked by his younger brother. 

 Unfortunately the picture is too light 

 to reproduce well. 



With this number, and hereafter,, 

 foreign subscribers may secure the 

 Museum of either, R. Friedlandcr &■ 

 Soil, Berlin, N. JV., Carlstrsse 11, 

 general agents for Germany and the 

 north, or of Sivaiin & Co., i and 2 

 BoiLvcric Street, Fleet St., London, 

 England. Our foreign list, so con- 

 stantly on the increase has demanded 

 the establishment of these agencies. 



A series of Natural Histohy hand- 

 books edited by Edward Knobel and 

 published by Bradlee Whidden, 18 

 Arch St., Boston, are the very best 

 we have seen on their respective sub- 

 jects. They are designed as Giiide 

 Books for students of Natural History. 

 There are now ready. Trees and 

 Shrubs of Neiv England, Ferns and 

 Evergreens of Neiv< England, The 

 Bnttejfies and Dnskfliers of Neiu 

 England and The Beetles of Neta En- 

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 several hundred cuts each. Nothing 

 has ever been published at so low a 

 price as 50 cents that so thoroughly 

 covers the subjects. 



