OOLOGIST'S EXCHANGE. 



OOLOGIST'S EXCHANGE. 



ARTHUR E. PETTIT, 



Chairman. 



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EDITORIAL. 

 — The Loon will, if everything suits 

 Bio. Surber, be illustrated the coming 

 year. 



— The Curio Informant of Nashville, 

 Tenn.) is moving rapidly to one of the 

 first places in Archaeological circles. 



— Last issue was behind four days on 

 account of our regular printer being 

 sick, the form having to be set up by 

 inexperienced hands. 



—Naturalists are awaiting January 

 number of Footers Semi- Annual, and we 

 understand it will be as handsome a 

 publication as ever. 



—We are informed that O. Davies' 

 new Key is meeting with an unprece- 

 dented sale, and that before long 3d 

 edition will be as rare as first edition. 



— A handsome engraving of the 

 "Ornithologist" Wilson will be issued 

 as a supplement to December number. 

 This supplement will be sent to our 

 subscribers and exchanges only, and 

 specimens of it will be sold at an ad- 

 vanced price only. The engravings are 

 worth 20c. each at least. 



— It is with great regret that we leani 

 that Mr. Wade, Dorchester, Mass., will 

 soon suspend publication of "Truths of 

 Nature." We can appreciate the causes 

 for his action, but it seems a pity that a 

 magazine which, in one column of its 

 'Facts whittled down," gives more 



good advice than a volume of sermons, 

 should be allowed to die out for lack of 

 proper support from those whose pur- 

 poses it was intended to serve. 



— We have now taken, as the letters 

 published in another part will show, 

 entire control of two papers. These 

 papers had a list of several hundred 

 subscribers each, and were biting too 

 deeply into our trade, and believing 

 three papers could be issued more eco- 

 nomically under one management and 

 one heading, we decided to take the 

 foregoing step. N. B. We are not con- 

 nected with an "English Syndicate." 



Pettit Bro. & Co., Ltd., 



New York. 

 Dear Sirs: Yours October 16th to 

 hand and contents noted. Under the 

 circumstances, we see no alternative 

 left us but to accept your terms, and 

 we therefore transfer "The Exchange'''' 

 to you unconditionally. We send you 

 Subscription Book, ike, by express to- 

 day. 



Very respectfully, 



Bunker & Park. 



To my Subscribers : 



I regret to state that, owing to large 

 amount of work necessary for success- 

 ful issuing of my new work, Amateur 

 Journalist's Guide, I cannot give to the 

 Collector's Exchange the time necessaiy 

 for its successful issuing, and I deem 

 it my duty to my subscribers that I 

 place it in the hands of those who can 

 give them requisite attention, and with 

 that end in view I place my subscrip- 

 tion book in the hands of Pettit Bro. 

 & Co., Ltd., publishers of this paper, 

 knowing that they will be better able, 

 at the present time, than I am, to take 

 care of the Collector's Exchange and its 

 friends. Very truly, 



F. H. Eamks. 



PRIZE STORY OFFER, 

 Thus far, we have received quite a 

 few articles in competition for the 

 prizes offered in last number. The 

 competition closes Nov. 20th. The 

 names of the winners will be given in 

 December number. 



