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4. Portable Plant Press, elastic bands with six 

 dryers, $2.00. 



5. Vasculum (collecting-box) enameled, each, $1.50. 



6. Hand-lenses of various makes can be had for 

 from 20 cts. to $2.00. 



7. Forceps, medium fine, straight points, file-cut 

 edge, each, 40 cts. 



8. Scalpels, with ebony handle, best steel, each, 

 35 cts. 



For $5 can be had the following complete set of in- 

 struments of the best quality of steel in Morocco-leather 

 two-fold case, with velvet lining and chamois-skin pro- 

 tecting flaps: Catalog No. 1612. It contains: 



i Scalpel, No. 1458; all steel ,edge 45 mm. 



i " " 1462; " " " 32 " 



i " " 1464; " " " 25 " 



i Scissors, " 1550; fine, straight. 



i " " 1560; heavy " 140 mm. long. 



i Forceps," 1394; for vertebrate work. 



i " " 1388; heavy, straight, 120 mm. long. 



i Cartilage Knife, No. 1492; all steel, edge 45 mm. 



i Tenaculum, No. 1596. 



i Seeker, No. 1590. 



i Triple Chain and Hooks, No. 1430. 



i Blow-pipe, No. 1370. 



XL Reference Books for the Teacher's Library. 



1. Wood's New Illustrated Natural History. George Routledge & 



Sons, New York. 



2. Animal Life, by Jordan and Kellogg. D. Appleton & Co., 



New York. 



3. Introduction to Zoology, by Davenport. The Macmillan Com- 



pany, New York. 



4. Plants, by John M. Coulter. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 



5. The Foundations of Botany, by Bergen. Ginn & Co., Boston. 



6. The Structure and Habits of Spiders, by J. H. Emerton. B. 



Whidden, Boston. 



7. Manual of the Vertebrates, by David Starr Jordan. A. C. 



McClurg & Co., Chicago. 



8. Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts, by M. O. Wright. The 



Macmillan Company, New York. 



