THE ORNITHOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



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The continuance of our Chapter is more 

 than justified by the good it has done 

 in the pasi. Let every member report 

 for duty. 



SOME SIMPLE POINTERS TO MEMBERS 

 REVIVED. 



1. Read reports. Keep a note of 

 good points. 



2. Keep a memorandum of all re- 

 ports that pass you, with dates. 



3. Hold reports only long enough 

 to get all the good out of them, at long- 

 est three days. 



4. Address them distinctly, on for- 

 warding. 



5. Report any accident to a parcel 

 of reports, promptly to the General 

 Secretary. 



6. If you expect to be absent for a 

 week or more from your regular address, 

 or if you are about to change perma- 

 nently your address, report this fact in 

 season to your Division Secretary. 



Division Secretaries will arrange the 

 lists of members furnished them by 

 ' President in the order in which reports 

 can be circulated with the greatest dis- 

 patch. Send duplicate of lists as ar- 

 ranged to the President. 



As to )-e2}orts now circulaiiag : — The 

 members who have in hand the batches 

 of several Divisions, at the reading of 

 this notice, will please promptly notify 

 the General Secretary of this fact. 

 They will then hold thS reports till he 

 sends envelopes and blanks for fill- 

 ing out the new form of register. 



Two blanks will accompany each 

 batch of reports : one from beginning to 

 end of the Chapter, on which several 

 Division Secretaries will make the nec- 



essary entries; the othei", the register, 

 will pass only through one Division, 

 and will be renewed by the Secretarv 

 of the next Division, the last member 

 of the register sending it to the Gener- 

 al Secretary. 



All reports will finally go for safe 

 keeping into the hands of the General 

 Secretary. The President will ask Mr. 

 Moffatt to prepare a written account, 

 giving the titles and dates with names 

 of authors of all reports from the begin- 

 ning of our Chapter, handed to him by 

 the former officer; this account to be 

 published about July next, in connec- 

 tion with the list of members revised to 

 date, and a statement of our finances. 

 John M. Holzinger, President. 



CABINETS AND CANOES. 



Cabinets made to order. Any size and shape 

 of any kind of wood at lowest prices. Send draw- 

 ing of what you want, (and name kind of wood 

 wanted, ) for bid. 



Our canvas canoes are the best in the market. 

 Adjustable water proof top with complete camp 

 utensils, stove that weighs about six pounds in- 

 cluded. Can cook, eat, and float at the same time. 

 All made 14 feet long unless otherwise ordered, 

 only §30 for the above outfit. Address 



Wm. S. Sandford & Co., 

 Des Moines, Iowa. 



of 



No embalming. New and original. Works like 

 a charm, on all birds without regard to size. 

 Full particulars for 50 cents. Address. 



Letson Balliet, Des Moines Iowa. 



SMITHS INSECT POWDER. 



Used for keeping insects from your cabinets, to 

 drive them out if they are there, and for placing 

 in your insect cases instead of camphor. Used in 

 making the best anti-posionous preservation pow- 

 ders. Particulars given to every purcha.ser of one 

 half pound or more. 



1 pound package jjl OO 



.] pound package 50 



sample package 12 



Agents wanted everywhere address the 



Ornithologist and Botanist, 



