SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XIV. No. 343 



The Mutual Life Insurance Company 



OF NEW YOKK. 



RICHARD A. McCURDY, PRESIDENT. 



$126,082,15356 



ASSETS 



The Largest and best Life Insurance Company in the World. 



The New Business of the Mutual Life Insurance Company in iS 



Exceeded $103,000,000. 



Its Business shows the Greatest Comparative Gain made by 

 any Company during the past year including 



A gain in assets of * 7.275j3°' 68 



A gain in income of 3.°96>oio 06 



A gain in new premiums of 2,333,406 00 



A gain in surplus of 1,645,622 11 



A gain in new business of 33'75^'T9^ ^5 



A gain of risks in force 54,496,25 1 85 



The Mutnal Life InsDrance Company 



Has Paid to Policy-holders since Organization $272,481,839 82. 



E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO. 

 5(31 Broadway, N.Y. 



Manufacturers and Importers of 

 PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS, 

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 1 great variety, from $g.oo upward. 

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 than 40 years established in this line of bi 



Schools. 



Connecticut, New Haven, 

 fRR. CADY'S SCHOOL FOJfci'^OUNG LADIES. 

 Prepares for Smith 

 Vassar by Certificate, 

 necessary. 



J. GRUNOW 



631 Sixth ATCnue, Ne« 



Established 1852. 



Microscope Stands, 

 Oil Immersion Object- 

 ives and Abbe Con- 

 densers for Bacterial 

 and Histological work, 

 of Objectives, Camera 

 Lucida and other ac- 

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MICHIGAN' MINING SCHOOL. — For c'^>> ,/' 

 address M. E. Wadsworth, A.iNl., Ph.D , Diiy,y 



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GOOD NEWS 

 TO L ADIES. 



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 up orders for our celebrated 

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FOOD 

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And its Detection. With photomicrographic plates and 

 a bibliographical appendix. By J. P. Battershall. 328 

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12 Corllandt St., New York. 



Old and Rare Books. 



One Million Magazines. Back numbers, vols. 



and sets — old and new. Foreign and American. 



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34 Park Row, New York City. 



JACK NUMBERS and complete sets of leading Mag- 

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IMPROVED OIL LIGHT 



MAGIC LANTERNS. 



Also Lime and Electric Light Apparatus, and 



mechanical, plain, and fine colored views. 



J. B. COLT & CO., Manufacturers, 



No. 16 Beekman Street, New York. 



EiRLE & CO. 



SUCCESSORS 10 



R. & J. BECK, 



1016 Chestnut Street, Phila. 



Microscopes and all 

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 graphic Apparatus and 

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Spectacles, Eye 

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Illustrated Price List 

 mailed fj-ee to any ad- 

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 'n corresponding with us. 



Electrical 



House 

 Furnishings. 



32 & 34 Frankfort St., 

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OUR 7S CENT COLORED SILK. 



We have had uuusual success 

 with this line of Gros Grains. 



They are 19 1-2 inches wide, have 

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JAMES McCREERY & CO. 



BROADWAY AND ELEVENTH STREET, 



NEW YORK. 



INTHEWORLD. /Fit 



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,ed bj thousands of first-class 



Innics and bv such manufact- 



s IS Pullman Palace Car Co., 



Tlimlia Organ and Piano 



Repairs Everything. 



I[ssuci.ess Las brought a lot of 



I™' i!>le *" Remec^.ber that "T H E 



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IS manufactured solely by the 



RUSSIA CEMENT CO. 



GIUUCESTEK, MASS. 

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