niE OOLOGIST. 



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20,000 MARCH OOLOGISTS 



WILL BE PRINTED ON MARCH 1st. 



During 1893 the^^realest number printed at any one issue was 3,000 copies and 

 the smallest 2,o00. i he actual average for '93 was 2,750 copies per month' 



- nr>5''^' •'''''''' •" ^^."^ ^""'' old days of the Youajr Oolofrist we frequentiy had 

 o.OJO eopi.-s printed per month and once we had (i.OOU. This number we believe 

 was the greatest ever issued. Of course when printing these hiro-e editions the 

 bulk of tliem were used as "samples." 



These samples, however, cost money, required time ami lal)or to mail advan- 

 tagecjusly ami as we grew older in both years and experience we discontinued the 

 sample business and for the past fdur or tive vears have issued only a sufficient 

 number to '-go around," which has ranged from 2,000 to 3,000 copies per month. 



As the present number of subseribors e.TcetYZ5 2,000 it is safe to say that the 

 smallest number that will be printed during 1894 will be that of the January issue 

 of which we printed 2.500 copies. ~ ' 



Th s mouth's (Fei)ruary) Ooloffist completes the first hundred numbers of 

 its e.visteuce and in order to tittiugiy celebrate this almost unorecedented happen- 

 ing or occurence— That a publication devoted to Birds their .Nests and Ecrgs or in 

 fact any of the various branches of Natural Science, should not only so hmo- sur- 

 vive the trials and vicissitudes of naturalistic journalism but that too with irs ori- 

 ginal Editor and Publisher still at the helm— we shall begin the .second century 

 with an edition of 20,000 copies. 



•'What will we do with them?" Well, read on. 



WE HAVE 7845 PATRONS. 



First. We have recorded in our books since Jan. 1, 1893 the names of 

 7845 collectors who have wri'McM ?is. About one-third of tin; number are or 

 have Ijeen subscribers of the Oologist at some time during tiiat period; one- 

 half of the remainder or one-third of the whole are not subscribers of the Oolo- 

 gist but have during the past two years purchased goods of us at various times 

 in amounts ranging from 5 cents ti» over $l<>OU. 



To the value of the remainder of these 781.") addresses we cannot attest but all 

 of them were, however, sufficiently interested in our business to at least "swipe" 

 one of their (irms postals and request us to send them a "cattleougue and sample 

 of the Olegouse" and as much more as they might hope we would send them 

 gratuitously. 



These 7845 names are distributed as follows: 



Alabama 44 



Ai'izona V-i 



Arkan>5a8 41 



California 342 



Colorado .55 



Connecticut 2:94 



Delaware 33 



District of Columbia 49 



Florida 91 



Georgia 146 



Idaho 9 



Illinois 581 



Indiana 224 



Indian Territory I 



Iowa 3.>4 



Kansas 211 



Kentucky 71 



Louisiana .38 



Maine 196 



Maryland 109 



Massachusetts 313 



Michigan 3,")0 



Minnesota 183 



Mississippi 99 



Missouri 155 



Montana 23 



Nebraska ..„ 133 



Nevada ' 14 



New Hampshire 82 



New Jersey 180 



New Mexico 11 



New York 1008 



Norih Carolina 139 



North Dakota 33 



Ohio 444 



Oklahoma 1 



Oregon 55 



Pennsylvania 482 



Rhode Island .33 



South Carolina 60 



South Dakota ,36 



Tennessee 173 



Texas 212 



Utah c ...18 



Vermont 123 



Virginia .. 124 



Washington 33 



West Virginia 40 



Wisconsin.... .210 



Wyoming n 



DOMINION OK CANADA. 



British Columbia 4 



Alberta 2 



Manitoba ..g 



New Brunswick ..2 



Nova Hcotia 7 



Ontario ."i64 



Quebec 25. 



Foreign jg 



7g45. 



