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A trial of the above method will well 

 repay the collector for his trouble. 

 Yours Respectfully, 



B. L. Hoffmeisti:r, 

 Ft. Madison, Iowa. 



A Merry Christmas! 



Some may smile, but you see our 

 Dec. number is not printed until the 

 15th and frequently not mailed until 

 the 20th, so before many of our read- 

 ers see Dec. No., Christmas may be 

 passed. 



You expect to get your father, moth- 

 er, brother or sister, any way the nat- 

 uralist in the family, some present, 

 don't you.' Order it early so as to be 

 sure of getting it in time. 



If interested in Oology a copy of 

 Bendire's Life Histories of Birds, Vol. 

 2, would be very nice. Price $7. 50. 

 We have one copy of Capen's Oology of 

 New England, second hand but as good 

 as new. Price $12.00. A collection 

 of 50 birds eggs all different for $2.00; 

 a case to put them in with neat trays, 

 $1.75; a collection of 100 kinds for 

 $7.00 and cases to put them in for 

 $3.00. 



In the bird line we recommend 

 Ridgeway's New Manual, $7.50; Goss' 

 Birds of Kansas, $6.00; Maynard's 

 Birds of New England, $7.50; Jasper's 

 Birds of North America, colored plates 

 of all birds, $25.00; Johnson's Natural 

 History, 2 vols., fine, for $8.00; Mc- 

 Ilwraith's Birds of Ontario for $2.00; 

 Chapman's Birds of Eastern North 

 America, $3.00. 



In Taxidermy the finest is Davie's 

 superb work at $5.50 prepaid; Horna- 

 day's at $2.50; a small work by Avis 

 at 25c.; a fine taxidermy outfit com- 

 plete, $3.00. 



In entomology Duncan's Transform- 

 ation of Insects, $5.00; Harris' Insects 

 Injurious to Vegetation, $4.00; May- 

 nard's Butterflies of New England, 

 $8.00; Packard's Guide to the Study of 

 Insects, 700 illustrations, $5.00; also 

 Our Common Insects, $1.50; Say's 

 Entomology, 2 vols., $1 5.00; Scudder's 

 Buttcrllies, $3.00. 



In conchology the best is Tryon's 

 Manual at $6.00; Keep's West Coast 

 Shells, $1.75; Woodward's Manual of 

 Mollusca, $3.00; Sowerby's Manual, 

 $10.00. 



In Mineralogy and Geology, Dana's 

 Manual Mineralogy, $10.00; Manual of 

 Geology, $4.50; Manual of Mineral- 

 ogy and Lithography, $2.00; Kunz' 

 Gems and Precious stones of North 

 America, $10.00. 



In Botany Eaton's Ferns of North 

 America, 2 vols., $30.00; Gray'sField, 

 Forest and Garden Botany, $2.00; 

 Manual of Botany, $2.25; Structural 

 Botany, $2.75; Harris' Wild Flowers, 

 $1.50; Lesquereaux and James' Manual 

 of Mosses, $4.00; McAlpine's Botani- 

 cal Atlas, 2 fine vols, of colored plates, 

 $12.00. Order at once. 



W. F. Webb, Mgr., Albion, N. Y. 



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