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IMPORTANT! 



I can still furnish many or most items offered on last 16 pages of June-July 

 OOLOGIST. The '$3.75 for $1 00" Premium Offers hold good until Jan. 1, 1900. 



Under "Books for Naturalists" I can still furnish nearly everything except 

 the ones under "Ornithology and Oology," under this heading it is advisable to 

 send list of Wants, first. 



"Mounted Birds" have all been sold— the few mammals in 2d column of this 

 page adv will be closed out at a Bargain to someone. 



"Bird Pictures' ' we carry regular and prices and offer holds good until Jan- 

 uary, 1900 and undoub'ediv throughout that year. 



"Special Bargains in Shells, Eggs, Fossils, &c. as offered in the June-July 

 and August OoLOGiST we can still furnish as follows: 



UNIONID^E.— One hundred and thirty-four (134) species (American) 450 speci- 

 mens. All fresh live specimens. Worth at regular prices fully $100. Will send 

 the entire collection prepaid for only $28.40. 



RARE OLD SII<VER COINS of Great Britain.— A collection of 50 pieces from 

 the reign of Henry II (1154) to that of Victoria. The collection contains coins 

 minted during the reigns of twenty-two (22) ot Great Britain's monarchs. The 

 collection lists about $55.00, will sell as a whole for $22.50 prepaid. 



FOSSIL COLLECTION. A specially selected collection of Fossils for school 

 used to I sell at $100. One hundred (lOOJ species and about 500 specimens ranging 

 in value from 5c. to $1 00 each A very select and very valuable collection and is 

 largely composed of Fossil Corals, all carefully labeled and prepared, and well 

 worth $100. My price $33.50 prepaid. 



I have another collection similar to above put up to sell at $50.00, 100 species 

 and about 200 specimens which I will send prepaid for only $15.75i 



MOUND BUILDER'S RELICS. We have hundreds of ordinary arrow and 

 spear heads and a few of the more common pieces such as sinkers, drills, scrap- 

 ers, &c, but have very few of the rare and desirable ones. The following we offer 

 at about one-half regular prices: Pipe from Brant Co., Ont., a very choice speci- 

 men, $4.90, prepaid; another from same locality of a more common and unat- 

 tractive form, $1.60, prepaid; Slate Pendant from Waterloo Co., Ont , prepaid, 

 55cts; Hematite Celt from Van Bux-en Co., Ark., prepaid, only $1.20. Ordin- 

 ary Stone Axe from Cumberland Co., N. J., prepaid, $1.30. I also have the 

 contents of a cache from Rowan Co., N. C, consisting of about 400 unnotched 

 arrow or spearheads of uniform size and form, about 2^ long, will sell as a whole 

 very reasonable. 



NEPTUNE'S CUP or Vase Sponge, Paterion, from Tasmania. An odd and 

 curious specimen worth from $15 to $<iO, and we have never offered this specimen 

 for less than $10 prepaid. It measures 24 in. high and the vase portion is 12 in, 

 in diam. It goes prepaid for only ;gl7.60. 



SPANISH CROSS inlaid with straw from an ancient church in Jemez, New 

 Hex. Curio dealers would ask $5.00 for it, but it's yours prepaid for $1.65. 



AN EGYPTIAN IDOL, carved from stone or lava 1000 or more years ago, rep- 

 resents an elephant or some other animal, measures about 4x2i in. Secured by a 

 missionary acquaintance from a mummy pit in Egypt and guaranteed genuine. 

 Prepaid only ,§3.15. 



LARGE CORALS. 1 specimen of the Plate Brain Coral, Meandrina clivosa, 

 from Bahamas measuring 22 in. in long diameter (16 in. short) worth $10; one of 

 true Brain Coral, Meandrina cerebriformis, 11 in. diam. worth $5.00; one .specimen 

 of Pineapple Coral, Perites aslrceoides, 10 in. diam. worth $3.00, will send the three 

 specimens prepaid for onlv $8.60i 



EGGS 01 THE EMEU. Nothing attracts greater attention in the egg line than 

 the large dark green, nearly black pebbled egg with a lighter ground color of 

 this peculiar Australian bird. Every egg collection would have contained one of 

 these eggs and even the laity would have had them on their "wnat-nots" or 

 among their "bric-a-brac" had not the price— which has always been $2.50— been 

 a little too high. We now have a limited supply at only $1,20 each prepaid 



