X THE OOLOGIST. 



ALBION 



IS a Village of nearly 5,000 inhabitants, it is the County Seat of 

 Orleans County; It is the centre of one of the most wealthy, populous, 

 and prosperous farming and fruit-growing districts in the World. 



The Post Office at ALBION receives the mails for a district having 

 a population of perhaps, 8,000 people. 



According to the report made by the Postmaster of Albion, for 

 the month of January, 1895, that month was a Record Breaker, and 

 showed the greatest amount of business ever transacted in a single month, 

 since letter postage was reduced to 2c and luidoubtedly since the office 

 was established. 



This report does not show it — but it's a fact, nevertheless, that one- 

 fifth (possibly, if not quite one-fourth) of this entire business can be at- 

 tributed to one, 



FRANK H; LATTIN, 



(who resides -'two and one-half miles out in the country" ). This 

 "LATTIN" makes no pretentions at being a "Natural History Dealer, " 

 although he does do a little "jobbing" along that line. 



From a business or professional standpoint he might be classed as 

 a "Publisher" or "Naturalist," although some of the boys do, familiar- 

 ly, call him a "Yankee," and a "rustler." 



On January loth, this LATTIN addressed a circular to his friends 

 headed: 



"TO MY FRIENDS AND PATRONS" 



Every statement in which was to his best knowledge and belief, the 

 truth, and as he has been well-known to the Collectors of the United 

 States for the last fifteen years, there is no reason for thinking that they 

 accepted it as otherwise. The direct results from that circular and ac- 

 acmpanying letter and printed matter, exceeded his most sanguine ex- 

 pectations, and the letters he has received since has averaged over 100 

 (one hundred) a day and on one day by actual count they numbered two 

 hundred and thirteen (213). He has also received as high as seventy- 

 eight (78) pieces of other mail matter in a single day. This same 

 "LATTIN " has received more letter mail and more P. O. Money Or- 

 ders during the past month than the combined mails and orders received 

 by the next ten heaviest patrons of the Post Office at Albion. 



It's not the coat that makes the man. The rarest and most valuable 

 specimens are oft'times obtained from sources having the roughest of ex- 

 teriors. Hence, "LATTIN" is aw^are that collectors care but little 

 whether his place of business is in a hovel or marble palace — as long as 

 he attends strictly to business and cares for his patron's trusts in strict 

 accordance with the golden rule. 



As a matter of fact, however, > -LATTIN" occupies three buildings, 

 viz: — ist, a store house, (formerly used as a barn) ; 2d, a shop or office, 

 //<'ew- used for any other purpose); 3d, his "Museum" or the building 

 which is devoted exclusively to his private collections and which is fit- 

 ted up with cabinets and cases made expressly for that purpose. These 

 collections are now being arranged and it is hoped that they may be 

 ready for visitors to inspect not later than May ist. 



