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THE MUSEUM 







The above two cuts, mentioned 

 in Mr. Van Epps article entitled "Mit- 

 chell's Cave, in February number, were 

 by error omitted last month. 



etc. At this season of the year not 

 much is to be found, still one can al- 

 ways find lots of interesting things 

 along the beach of old ocean. 



A half day was spent at the Sports- 

 men's Exposition now being held in 

 Boston. Our space is too limited to 

 give even a brief write up of this affair. 

 There were many fine taxidermy ex- 

 hibits and a specially fine lot of live 

 birds, animals, fish, etc. Among the 

 animals were Bear, Moose, Elk, Deer, 

 Mt. Sheep, Mt. Goat, Lynx, Wild 

 Cat, Badger, Mt. Lion, Coon, Prairie 

 Dog, Flying Squirrel. In birds — Val- 

 ley, Scaled, Massena and Common 

 Oaail; Prairie Hen; Sharp-tail Grouse; 

 various Pheasants; large number spe- 

 cies of Ducks, Geese, etc., and many 



other birds and animals we cannot re- 

 member. 



A brief visit was made to the store 

 of N. L. Wilson. He carries a fine 

 stock of minerals and one can get al- 

 most anything called Tor; also a fine 

 general lot of curios and invertebrates 

 for schools. 



A few hours were very pleasantly 

 spent in Whidden's Book Store. Our 

 main purpose in visiting same was to 

 examine Denton's new work on "But- 

 terfiies," and we must say it surpasses 

 all our expectations. It is the only 

 real thing in a Butterilj' work. Ar- 

 rangements were made to handle it 

 and we shall be pleased to send circu- 

 lars and descriptions. Price is $5.00 

 a part as issued. We secured some 



