68 THE OOLOGIST. 



SELECTED CORALS, SHELLS, MINERALS, CURIOS RELICS, &C. 

 k Baml of Shells and a Nature SM; Collection. 



Offered on eight page insert in this Oologist. I still offer for sale or will ex- 

 change for desirable Eggs in Sets or for Standard Books or Ornithology, if at 

 right prices. It is advisable however to make your selections or purchases at 

 once, as the Pan-American and Chautauqua trade will take nearly, if not quite 

 everything left next month. 



The following bave already been sold: Brain Coral Propeller Coral ($3.25 

 spec), Sawfish Saws, Ostrich Eggs, Emeu Eggs, Paper Nautilus, Bisected Cham- 

 bered Nautilus. Egyptian Idol, Chinese God. Chinese Cash Sword. Arrowheads 

 95c, lot from Illinois, Joplin Calcite— the $4.30 specimen. In the Nature Study 

 Collection it is necessary to substitute other specimens of greater value for 

 the Bisected Nautilus. 



In case you can use aaything left ia larger lots, submit list and I may be able 

 to make special quotations. 



I want cash but will "swap" some items, which I have in abundance— if necessary 

 and if you have what I want at right prices. 



FRANK H. LATTIN. 



GIBE'S CELEBRATED PROCESS OF RAPID TAXIDERMY. 



In Practical Use for Over Twenty-five years. 



Used Every where in America. Hundreds of Testimonals. Try and be Convinced. 

 Start a class. Money in It. Be Your Own Taxidermist. 



Naturalists, Collectors, ' Gunners, Anglers, Outers, Boys, Girls and all others interested in 

 nature and anxious to preserve the specimens taken in wood and field, have all felt the need of a 

 simple method of preservation, which is free from intricacies and inexpensive. 



There is a method of rapid taxidermy now in extensive use, which meets the requirements of 

 all amateurs who wish a practical and inexpensive method of preserving the trophies of the out- 

 ing and collecting trip. This is not the old system of so-called stuffing, so expensive, laborious 

 and disappointing, but is a rapid system, which anyone can learn at once and which is guaran- 

 teed to give satisfaction. 



By this process you may preserve the beautiful plumage of the grouse and woodcock, or the 

 pike's or buck's head, or the showy feathers of the tanager. Boys, girls and all others can do 

 good work and may make money, as mounted heads and birds find a ready sale, and besides you 

 may teach your friends and decorate the school-room, office and dining-room with native birds 

 and other attractions. If you are in doubt, then get your friends to go in with you and start a 

 class, for when several work together there is an advantage, and the expense is next to nothing. 



On the receipt of $1.00, cash or stamps, I will send full printed instructions for mounting 

 birds, heads, mammals, etc., and all materials for mounting and preserving specimens — includ- 

 ing prepared compound, together with full directions for dressing skins with the hair on for rugs 

 and robes, so that you will not be to the expense of one cent and will send full directions how to 

 start a class. 



Remember I guarantee satisfaction or money refunded. 



Mention Oologist and address 



MORRIS GIBBS, M. D., Kalamazoo, Mich. 



Lattin's Standard Catalogne ot Nortb American Birds Eggs. 



Enlarged (contains 78 pages) revised, corrected and brought up to date of going to press- 

 March, 1896. Gving all of the new A. O. U. changes and additions. Also divided and sub divided 

 into orders, sub-orders, families and sub-families. Single copy 10 cents ; 3 for 25 cents. 



