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One Dollar s worth of any books men- 

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 new subscriber to the Museum. 



BOOKS. 



15 per cent off these prices for 

 July and August only. 



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 1 -Ih 



Davie's Nesls and Eggs, cloth 



ditto, paper 



Davies Naturalists Manual - i^ 



Standard Catalogue of Eggs 3j 



Checking Lists, revised to 'i)4, doz ir, 



Birds of'^Michigan. paper J5 



Cones' Key to N. A. Birds, Standard . .^0 



Ridgewavs Manual N. A. Birds 7 M 



Goss's Birds of Kansas *• ... " 00 



Eangille's Our Birds in their Haunts l 7.t 



Apgars Key to Birds of Northwest -nO 



Birds of Ontario, new. Mcllwraith 2 00 



Davie's New Taxidermy, finest thing out. 



sample pages for stamp 7 ,^0 



Hornadav's Taxidermy 2 .^0 



Bird preserving and Bird Mounting 2.5 



Mauton's Taxidermy ■ -"O 



Dtmean's Transformation of Insects 5 00 



Harris" Insects Injurious to Vegetation... 4 00 



Mavnards Butterflies, colored 7 .tO 



Packard's, Guide to the Study of Insects.. .5 00 



Half Hours with Insects 2 50 



Our Common Insects 1 .50 



Savs' Entomology of N. A., colored 15 00 



Scudder, Butterflies 3 00 



Dana. Coral and Coral Islands 3 .50 



Emerton. Life on Sea Shore , 1 ^^ 



Farlow, on Marine Algea 1 50 



Hervey, Sea Mosses. Ills 3 00 



Sowerby's Manual Conchology !■"> 00 



Tryon's Conchology, Ills 6 00 



•Woodward's MoUusca, Ills 3 00 



Agassiz Geol. Sketches 3 00 



Dana, Geological Story 1 50 



Manual Geology 4 .tO 



Minerals and Lithology...- 3 00 



Dana Miueralogv. just out 12 00 



Kunz, Precious Stones, colored 10 00 



Shaler. First book in Geol 1 10 



Winchels Geol, Excursions 1-^0 



Baldwin's Orchids 3 50 



Eaton. Ferns of N. A . 9 vol ; 30 00 



Grav, Field, Forest and Garden Botany... 3 00 



Grav Manual of Botany 2 2.t 



Harris' Wild Flowers 1 -oO 



Mauton's Insects 50 



Abbot s Primative Indtistry _ 4 5ii 



Manual f)f Canary Birds "5 



Roots Bee Culture .. 1 2.i 



Raobit's Guide book 1 2.t 



Batty. How to Hunt and trap 1 50 



Canoe and Camera 1 JO 



Dog Traming 1 00 



The Dog 2 00 



Shooting on the Wing 7.t 



Hints for Beginners with the Microscope 50 



Common Sea vVeeds 40 



Common Shells of Sea Shore _ 40 



British Common Birds 1 00 



One Thousand Objects for Microscope .tO 



Hints and Points for Sportsmen 1 50 



Apgar's Key to MoUtisk of Atlantic Coast, 



"cloth 1 00 



Meek, Check list Miocene Fossils 15 



" Cretaceous Fossils _ 15 



Ridgeway, Cat. Old World Birds 15 



Elliot's Lists of Hummers 15 



Hayatt's Pebbles - 10 



Commercial and other sponges. 20 



Corals and Echinoderms 20 



Mollusca : 25 



" Worms and Crustacea _ 25 



Bound volumes of various scientific maga- 

 zines in stock at all times. 



The New Key to Nortli American Birds 



Contains a concise account of every species ol 

 living and fossil birds at present known an th« 

 continent north of the houndary line laetweea 

 Mexico and the United States, Including Green- 

 land. 



Third edition, revised tod.ate, exhibiting the 

 new nomenclature of the A. O. U., etc., with 

 which are Incorporated General Ornithology, an 

 outline of the structure and classification of birds 

 and Field Ornithology. A manual of collecting, 

 preparing and preserving birds. 



By Elliot Coues, M. A.. M. D., Ph. D. member 

 of tiie National Academy of Science, etc. 



Profusely lUustrated. Coues' Key Is too well 

 known as a leading authorative treatise to re- 

 qun-e remark, having for twelve years held Its 

 place as the Standard Work of reference for Pro- 

 fessional Ornlthologls.ts as well as for students 

 and amatem-s. The work contains over 900 pages 

 and is fully Indexed with several thousand en- 

 crles. Complete In one. stout volume: 



complete descriptive cl^ cular of this -work free 

 lo applicants. 

 Price post-paldj^ $7.5C, — _ 



Maynard's Naturalists' Guide. 



There Is no manual on collecting objects of Nat- 

 ural History that has met with the success which 

 has been accorded to this work, and there are 

 probably few naturalists in this country who have 

 had the wide field of experience in collecting in 

 all departments of Natui'al History that the auth- 

 or of this book has had, thus lew are better fitted 

 'or the work he has accomplished. 



In order that those who are not acquainted 

 wUii iue>.uide, muy understand upon wuat sub- 

 jecu i.. ti\^aLS, «(; give Che lollovving synopsis of 

 Che cuiiLCiits: 



Collecti.no and Preserving Birds— It tells 

 how to collect, measure, slaii, determine the sex 

 'amply Illustrated,) make first-class skins rapidly 

 ind mount birds In all attitudes. 



Collecting and Preserving Mammals.— J* 

 tells how to collect, measure, skin, make skins 

 tor scientific purposes and mount mamals. Al- 

 so teaches tanning skins lor fur. 



Collecting and Preserving Insects for i-hk 

 Cabinet.— It teaches wJiere to find, now to col- 

 lect and how to preserve Beetles, coleoptera, 

 Bugs or Hemlptera, Grasshoppers, Crickets, etc. 

 or orthoptera Moihs and Butterflies, or Lepldop- 

 leia. Dragon Flies, or Neuroptera, Bees, Wasps, 

 pre. or Uymdoptera, Flies, Mosquitoes, etc., or 

 Dlptera. 



V.OLLECTING and Preserving Fishes and Rep- 

 pi les.— It teaches mounting Fishes and making 

 casts of tlicin for museums; also how to mount 

 reptiles, make skins of tiiein, ece. and preserve 

 all animals ot both these classes in alcohol. 



.Miscellaneous collecting.— It gives full In- 

 structlous about wJieie to find, coUect and pre- 

 serve Crabs or Crustacea, Shells of Mollusks, 

 Land, Freshwater and Marine Worms, Animal 

 parasites, .Tellyfish, Corals, Sea-anemones. Hy- 

 drolds and Bryozoa, star-flshes. Sea-urchins, 

 .lulothurlans. Sponges and Seaweeds. Pressing 

 sea-mosses and all other kinds of Sea-side col- 

 lecilng. Also how to prepare and mount skele- 

 tons all classes ot Vertebrates. 



Collecting and Preserving Eggs.— It gives 

 extended Instructions in collecting and preserv- 

 ing eggs, method of preparing a book for record- 

 ing their measurements, packing tor transporta- 

 tion, etc, etc. 



The book contains 125 pages, Is printed on 

 heavy paper, amply Illustrated with ten platea 

 which contain twenty-three flguresH and la 

 finely bound In cloth. 



Price Dost-pald, 11.25 1;^ . — ' '^ 



