THE MUSEUM. 



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THE MUSEUM. 



A Monthly Magazine devoted to Ornithology, 



Oology, MoUusca, Echinodermata, 



Mineralogy and Allied 



Sciences. 



Walter F. "Webb, Editor and Pub'r 

 Albion. N. Y. 



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 Ics, as well as notes on the various Museums of the 

 World— views from same, discoveries relative to the 

 handling and keeping of Natural History material, 

 descriptive habits of various species, are solicited 

 from all. 



Make articles as brief as possible and as free from 

 technical terms as the sub.iects will allow. All letters 

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NOTES 



"Taxidermy; How to Collect, Skin, 

 Preserve and Mount Birds; The Game 

 and Fish Laws of Pennsylvania," is 

 the name of a pamphlet published by 

 the Divisions of Economic Zoology of 

 the Department of Agriculture of Penn- 

 sylvania, which is under the direction 

 of Prof. B. H. Warren, State Zoolo- 

 gist. It contains a number of illustra- 

 tions, including "Instruments," "First 

 steps in skinning," "Skin properly 

 made," "Method of wiring," "Game 

 panels," "Screens" i.Vc. The Intro- 

 duction contains some "Donts" that 

 we consider are of special interest at 

 this season and we include in this 

 number. The work is well written 

 and will commend itself to all active 

 naturalists. 



During the past two months collect- 

 ors have witnessed two Natural Science 

 papers gently pass along where the 

 woodbine twineth. Th3 Nortli Amcr- 

 iian Naturalist published one number 

 (April) which promised good things, 

 and we had hoped to see it continue, 

 but it died young. It was advertised 

 in the Museum early in the year and 

 if any of our subscribers sent money 

 to the Naturalist Pub. Co., Newark, N. 

 J. or Richard F. Jolley who passed as 

 manager and it has not been returned 

 to them please notify the Museum at 

 once. This firm, through Richard F. 

 Jolley, contracted for quite a lot of ad- 

 vertising in the Museum. Our con- 

 tracts read "bills payable monthly." 

 First month bill was paid O. K. Next 

 month in reply to our bill Mr. Jolley 

 sends an ad. for the ensuing month 

 and says to send bill for all and I will 

 remit. We held the ad. to ascertain 

 if he intended to stand by his contract 

 and not receiving any reply we waste- 

 basketed it. Now comes the climax. 

 Mr. Jolley says that he can't pay our 

 bill at all, that the Co. has busted, 

 that it has returned all subscriptions 

 to subscribers, etc., that he was only 

 acting as manager for the Co. and is 

 not holding for any Co. debts, etc. 

 As to the character, honesty and in- 

 tegrity of Mr. Jolley we have not been 

 informed, and he does not want to en- 

 lighten us. It looks very much as if 

 Mr. Jolley was the sum and substance 

 of the Naturalist Pub. Co. and that 

 the Co. was simply an underhanded 

 game to defraud the public. We 

 have no hesitancy in announcing his 

 actions as crooked and if we find that 

 our subscribers have sent him money 

 which he has not returned, we shall 

 be tempted to give him the full force of 



