THE OOLOGIST. 



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20,000 MARCH 00L0GISTS 



WILL BE PRINTED ON MARCH 1st. 



During 1893 the greatest number printed at any one issue was 3,000 copies and 

 the smallest 2,500. The actual average for '93 was 2,750 copies per month. 



Way back in the good old days of the Young Oologist we frequently had 

 5,000 copies printed per month and once we had 6,000. This number we believe 

 was the greatest ever issued. Of course when printing these large editions the 

 bulk of them were used as "samples." 



These samples, however, cost money, required time and labor to mail advan- 

 tageously and as we grew older in both years and experience we discontinued the 

 sample business and for the past four or five years have issued only a sufficient 

 number to "go around," which has ranged from 2,000 to 3,000 copies per month. 



As the present number of subscribors exceeds 2,000 it is safe to say that the 

 smallest number that will be printed during 1894 will be that of the January issue, 

 of which we printed 2,500 copies. 



Th s month's (February) Oologist completes the first hundred numbers of 

 its existence and in order to fittingly celebrate this almost unorecedented happen- 

 ing or occurence — That a publication devoted to Birds their .Nests and Eggs or in 

 fact any of the various branches of Natural Science, should not only so long sur- 

 vive the trials and vicissitudes of naturalistic journalism but that too with its ori- 

 ginal Editor and Publisher still at the helm — we shall begin the second century 

 with an edition of 20,000 copies. 



'•What will we do with them?" Well, read on. 



WE HAVE 7845 PATRONS. 



First. We have recorded in our books since Jan. 1, 1893 the names of 

 7845 collectors who have written us. About one-third of the number are or 

 have been subscribers of the Oologist at some time during that period; one- 

 half of the remainder or one-third of the whole are not subscribers of the Oolo- 

 gist but have during the past two years purchased goods of us at various times 

 in amounts ranging from 5 cents to over $1000. 



To the value of the remainder of these 7845 addresses we cannot attest but all 

 of them were, however, sufficiently interested in our business to at least "swipe" 

 one of their firms postals and request 'tis to send them a "cattleougue and sample 

 of the Olegouse" and as much more as they might hope we would send them 

 gratuitously. 



These 7845 names are distributed as follows: 



Alabama 44 



Arizona 12 



Arkansas 41 



California 343 



Colorado 56 



Connecticut 234 



Delaware 32 



District of Columbia 49 



Florida 91 



Georgia 146 



Idaho 9 



Illinois 581 



Indiana 224 



Indian Territory : t 



Iowa 354 



Kansas 211 



Kentucky 71 



Louisiana 38 



Maine 196 



Maryland 109 



Massachusetts 312 



Michigan 350 



Minnesota 183 



Mississippi 99 



Missouri _155 



Montana 23 



Nebraska 133 



Nevada 14 



New Hampshire 82 



New Jersey .180 



New Mexico 11 



New York 1008 



Norih Carolina 139 



North Dakota 33 



Ohio 444 



Oklahoma _ 1 



Oregon 55 



Pennsylvania 482 



Rhode Island 33 



South Carolina 60 



South Dakota 36 



Tennessee 173 



Texas 212 



Utah 18 



Vermont 123 



Virginia 124 



Washington 32 



West Virginia 40 



Wisconsin 210 



Wyoming n 



DOMINION OF CANADA. 



British Columbia.. 4 



Alberta '. 2 



Manitoba 6 



New Brunswick _2 



Nova Scotia 7 



Ontario 164 



Quebec 25 



Foreign 18 



7845 



