THE OOLOGIST. 



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WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. 



A solid gold brick, weighing 500 

 pounds and worth $150,000, will be ex- 

 hibited in the Mines and Mining build- 

 ing at the World's Fair by a Helena, 

 Mon., mine owner. 



The high school of San Diego, Cal., 

 gave a grand Fourth of July celebration 

 and will devote the proceeds toward 

 making a complete collection of San 

 Diego fish for exhibition at the World's 

 Fair. The specimens will be preserved 

 in alcohol and properly labeled, etc. 



The ethnological exhibit at the 

 World's Fair will include many curios 

 from the Charlotte Islands. 



A schooner is now being fitted out at 

 Halifax to go to the arctic regions to 

 get ten or twelve Esquimo families, fif- 

 ty or sixty persohs in all, for exhibition 

 at the World's Fair. Dogs, fishing im- 

 plements, utensils; and everything 

 necessary to show Esquimo life, will 

 also be procured. 



May Oologist announced that os- 

 trich eggs, artistically painted in a prize 

 competition, were to be a feature in the 

 exhibit from Cape Colony, South Africa. 

 This competition has been held. Nine- 

 teen contestants, mostly young women, 

 participated, and furnished designs 

 which the Cape press praises highly, as 

 being very artistic and beautiful. Each 

 contestant submitted half a dozen beau- 

 tifully decorated eggs, all of which will 

 be exhibited at the World's Fair. The 

 ■subjects of the paintings include flowers, 

 birds, animals, landscapes, public build- 

 ings, etc. The gem of the whole collec- 

 tion, painted by Miss Van Reenan, win- 

 ner of the first prize of £7 10s, is report- 

 ed to be a fairy figure standing on a 

 vine leaf drawn by a butterfly, with un- 

 derneath the words "To Chicago." 



Will You Join Us? 

 But a few tickets left to complete the 

 club to attend the World's Fair on the 

 United World's Excursion Co. plan. 

 Payments monthly or weekly; this is 

 the strongest company in America, ap- 

 ply to Local Agent or write United 

 World's Fair Excursion Co., N. E. 

 Dep't, 406 Exchange B'ld'g, Boston, 

 &Lass. 



Prizes for Best Articles. 



We have decided to give our patrons, 

 each month, five prizes. These prizes 

 are to be awarded to the five best arti- 

 cles appearing in the Oologist in which 

 the offers are made. 



For the five articles in this (July) Ool- 

 ogist which are the most instructive, 

 A r aluable and interesting we shall give 

 as follows: 



1st prize — A Part of Maynard's Birds 

 of Eastern North America, bound in 

 boards and leather. 



2nd prize— Davie's Key to the Nests 

 and Eggs of N. A. Birds'in cloth. 



3d. prize — Same as 2d prize, in paper. 



4th prize— Vol. 1 C84-'85) Young Ool- 

 ogist, bound in cloth. 



5th prize— Vol. Ill and IV ('86-'87) 

 The Oologist, bound in cloth. 



For the August competition we will 

 give a similiar set of prizes. 



The articles entering into competition 

 must contain at least one hundred 

 words and we prefer that they do not 

 exceed seven hundred words, unless 

 they fairty teem with very, very inter- 

 esting facts or happenings — Remember 

 that "fancies," "rehashes," "Sparrow 

 stories" and articles of similiar nature 

 are not solicited and will rarely be 

 found "available." 



THE JUDGES: You have been sel- 

 ected to act as one of the Judges in 

 these Prize article contests, and your 

 decision must be promptly and fairly 

 given. 



Your decision for this month's com- 

 petition must be mailed us not later 

 than August 10th. Write on back of a 

 postal card the artictes which you have 

 decided to be the most valuable, instruc- 

 tive and interesting in this number of 

 Oologist and mail to us Number the 

 articles in the order Avhich you think 

 the prizes should be awarded. 



We also give our Judges five prizes, 

 one to each of the five whose decisions 

 are nearest the final award of prizes and 

 in this months competition the Judge 

 whose list of five articles is the nearest 

 the awarded list, we will give a copy of 

 ©avie's Key to the Nest and Eggs of N. 

 A. Birds, paper. 2d and 3d each a 

 Book relating to Natural History, ele- 

 gantly bound, in cloth and gilt. 4th 

 and 5th each a set of Noddy. In case 

 of a tie, the earlist mailed list takes the 

 prize. Address 



Fkank H. Lattin, 

 Albion, N. Y. 



