xlviii 



RANDOM NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Taxidermy, 18. i Ventilation, 43, 47. 



Pickle for Skins, 51. Vertebrates, Educational Museums 

 To turn mounted bird of, 79. 



into skin, Brewster,!. Victoria regia, 90. 



Tourmaline, 11. Violets, R. I., W. W. Bailey, 51. 



Tragopans, 87. I 



Warbler, Yellew-rumped, 67. 



White-cheeked,in Conn., 

 43. 

 West Med ford Depot, 2. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. 



The flg-ures refer to the issue of Random Notes, the letters to the page. 



Audobon's Birds of N. A., 5, xix. 

 Auk, The, 3, xii. 



Birds' Eggs, 1, iv; 4, xvi; G xxiii; 



7, xxvi ; 8 xxxi, 9, 



XXXV ; ID, xxxix ; 



11, xliii; 12, 1. 



Alaskan, 4, xvi. 



And Nests Wanted, 6, 



xxiv. 

 Exchange, 2, viii. 

 School Collection of, 

 4, xv; 8, xxxii. 

 Bird Skins, 1, iv ; 6, xxiii ; 7, 

 xxviii; 8, xxxi; 10, 

 xxxix; 11, xliii. 

 Exchange, 2, viii. 

 Wanted, 2, vii. 

 Birds of N. A., Audobon, 5, xix. 

 Birds, Young, in the Down, 7, 

 xxviii. 



Calder, Herman L., Printer, 6, 



xxii; 7, xxvi. 

 Catalogues, see Southwick & 



Jencks. 

 Conchological Manual, G. B. 



Sowerby, 11, xlii. 

 Coral, 6, xxiv; 7, xxviii. 



Davies' Egg Check-list, 3, xii.; 4, 

 xiv; 5, xviii. 



Echinoderms, 6, xxiv. 

 Eyes, Glass, 1, iii; 2, viii. 



Glass Eyes, 3, xii ; 4, xiv; 5, xviii; 

 5, XX ; 6, xxii ; 7, xxvi ; 8 , 

 XXX ; 9, xxxiv, xxxvi ; 10, 

 xxxviii, xl; 11, xlii; 12, xlvi. 



Hoosier Naturalist, 10, xxxviii; 



11, xlii; 12, xlvi. 

 Horsford's Acid Phosphate, 1, ii; 



2. vi ; 3, X ; 4, xiv ; 5, xviii ; 



6, xxii; 7, xxvi; 8, xxx. 



Linnsean Society 

 1, ii. 



Transactions, 



Mammals, 4, xv ; 7, xxxviii ; 8, 



xxxii. 

 Mammals, Mounting, 5, xix ; 8. 



xxxi. 

 Mica Sand, 9, xxxv. 

 Minerals, 1, iii; 7, xxviii; 9, xxxv; 

 12, xlviii. 

 Amateurs' Collection, 4, 



xv; 8, xxxii. 

 School Collection, 4, xv; 



8, xxxii. 

 Wanted, 1, iii. 

 Wanted in exchange, 

 1, iii. 



Newport N. H. Soc, Proceedings, 

 8, xxx; 9, xxxiv; 10, xxxviii; 

 11, xlii; 12, xlvi. 



Ostrich Eggs, 12, 1. 



Philadelphia, Conchological Pub- 

 lications of Academy of Nat- 

 ural Science, 9, xxxv ; 10, 

 xxxviii. 



Ptarmigan, 3, xii. 



Ross, J. A. & Co., 48. 



Seeds, 6, xxiv; 7, xxviii. 



School Collection of Birds, 4, xv; 

 8, xxxii. 

 Minerals, 4. 

 XV ; 8, xxxii. 



Science Observer, 9, xxxiv. 



Shells, 1, iii; 2, vi; 7, xxviii; 10, 

 xxxix; 12, 1. 



Southwick & Jencks, 1. iii, iv ; 2, 

 vi, vii, viii ; 3, xi ; 4, xv, 

 xvi ; 5, xviii ; 6, xxiii, xxiv ; 

 7, xxvi. xxvii, xxviii ; 8, xxx, 

 xxxi, xxxii, 9 xxxiv ; 10, 

 xxxviii, xxxix, xl ; 11, xlii, 

 xliii, xliv; 12, xlvi, xlix, 1. 



Southwick & Jencks' Catalogues, 

 2, viii ; 3, xii ; 4, xiv ; 5, xviii; 

 6, xxii ; 7, xxvi ; 8, xxx ; 9, 

 xxxiv; 10, xxxviii; 11, xlii; 

 12, xlvi. 



Sponges, 6, xxiv. 



Starfish, 6, xxiv. 



Supplies, Naturalists', 11, xliv; 

 12, xlvii. 



Taxidermists' Tools, 7, xxvi; 8, 

 xxxi; 9, xxxiv; 12, xlvi; 12, 

 xlix. 



Trays, 4, xiv; 5, xviii; 6, xxii; 7, 

 xxvi; 8, xxx; 9, xxxiv; 10, 

 xxxviii; 11, xlii; 12, xlvi. 



Turtles, 4, xv; 8, xxxii. 



Voluta vexillum wanted, 5, xix. 



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