LEAVIS E. HOOD, 



IS) EVERETT AVE., E. SOMERVILLE, MASS. 



Autograph Letters, Historical Docu- 

 ments, and Rare Stantps. 



«»■ AMERICANA A SPECIALTY. -«:» 

 W.\NTEU— Revohitionary Relics, Mauusci-ipts and 

 Autograpli Letters of Noted People. Aulogiaplis 

 bougbt and sold. Send for list. 



Process of Embalming! 



CHANGE OF FIRM, 



During the last year over 325 rights to use Gibb's 

 Process of Embalming have been sold throughout 

 the United States. 



OSrOTICE. 



"We have secured from Dr. R. M. Gibb's of Kala- 

 mazoo, Mich., the right to make and sell his cele- 

 brated Embalming Conipimnd and to print and sell 

 his instructions how to preserve and mount birds, &c. 



C. H. &E.A. GIBBS&CO. 



We have just printed a circuhir explanatory of 

 Gibb's Process, which we will pleased to send to 

 anyone sending their address. We hold over 300 

 testimonials, many of them being from leading 

 taxidermists. 



SEND TO US FOR TESTIMONIALS. 



THIS PKOCES.S GROWS MORE POPULAR 

 EACH VE.\R. 



Address, 



C, H. & E. A, GIBBS & CO., 



Kalamazoo, Mich. 



TO E22:GI3:.A.ISrC3-E. 



Bird Skins of the Northwest. 



GEO. G. CANTWELL 

 1215 Chestnut Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 



THE AUK. 



WANTED, VOLS, I AND II 



In Good Condition, in Paper Covers, 

 as Issued. 



Address, stating price paid, 



Shells, Minerals and Fossils. 



— ALSO — 



SEEDS AND PLANTS. 

 C. R. ORCUTT, Publisher, 



The West American Scientist. San Diego, Cal. 



^va.nte;d. 



We will pay 10 cents each for the following numbers 

 of the Ornithologist & Oologist: 

 13. February, 188.5. 

 11. .July, 

 18. November, ** 

 ddress this office. 



WILLIAM G. SMITH, 



TAXIDERMIST, COLLECTOR OF 

 ORNITHOL O G V, 



And the Various Branches of Natural History. 

 tOVELAND, COLORADO. 



*S^Make a specialty of mailing birds same day as 

 skinned. Send stamp for price list. 



H. H. & O. S. BRIMLEY, 



E.^LEIGH, N. C. 



Collectors & Taxidermists. 



First-class Bird and Mammal Skins with full data. 

 Birds in the meat during cold "weather. Write for 

 price list. 



MANUALS. 



Batty's Practical Taxidermist, $1.50 



Davie's Naturalist'a Manual, paper, .75, 1.25 



Maynard's Manual of Taxidermy, 1.25 



Mauton's Taxidermy, .50 



■' luaects, .50 



*' Field Botany, .50 



Kingsley's Naturahbt's Assistant, 1.50 



Davidson's Icbthy-Taxidermy, ,50 



Practical Taxidermy. Frank B. Webster, | - g^ 



Practical Eutomology, Frank A. Bates, ( 



A Series of Lectures, iHustrated by 4 Full-page Plates and 

 2^ smaller cuts, showing every detail iu the work and the 

 tools and implements used, making it the most couipre- 

 hensive Manual on these subjects yet issued. These 

 lectures are contained in two volumes of the Ornitholo- 

 gist AND Oologist. originally published at %'i 00 and con- 

 taining besides, much of iuterest to the students of Orui- 

 thology and Entomology. 



lugersoll's Bird Nesting, $1.25 



Dana's Manual of Mineralogy, 2.00 



Packard's Guide to Study of Insects, 5.00 



Coues" Key to North American Birds, 7.50 



ALSO, A FULL LINIC OF 



BIRDS. BIRD'S SKINS, BIRD'S EGGS AND CURIOSITIES. 

 TOOLS AND NATDRALISTS' SUPPLIES. 



FRANK B. WEBSTER, FRANK B. WEBSTER, 



409 WASHINGTON ST., 



BOSTON, MASS. 



409 AVasliingrton St., Boston. 



