THE YOUNG OOLOGIST. 



— :1885;— ~:1885:— 



THE OOLOGIST'S HAND-BOOK. 



Lattixi's Catalogue and Frice-List 



of North American Birds' Eggs and Oologicai Supplies 



IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY. 



Neither lime nor expense has been spared to mal-:e it invaluable to the oologist, whether 

 amateur or professional. It contains 



Eighty-six Pages of Valuable Information. 



It gives our regular price list of ooiogical specimens and supplies (the most complete ever sent 

 out by any dealer.) It gives the common and scientific names of all North American birds, 

 arranged and numbered according to Ridgeway's (the Smithsonian) nomenclature of i88l ; it 

 gives the numbers used in Baird's check-list of I859 and those used in Coues' of 1883 ; it gives 

 the value of the eggs of over 500 species of North American birds, this fact alone making the 

 cataloyue invalualile to collectors as a basis of exchange. It names the various families into 

 which the birds of North America are divided, and enumerates the birds belonging to each 

 family. It gives, approximately, .the number of eggs in a clutch of every American bird. It 

 tells how to prepare specimens for cabinet, how to pack them for transportation, with many 

 other useful hints. 



A copy of our new hand-book and catalogue will be sent postpaid to any address for only 



TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, 



or we can furnish the hand-book bound in cloth aud gilt for 50 cents. A good wide-awake boy 

 or girl is wanted in every school and college in America to sell this hand-book. Big pay will be 

 given them for their trouble. Full particulars for stamp. ■ 

 Address, 



FRANK H. LATTIN, 



GAINES, Orleans Co., N..Y. 



~ LW. STILWELL, DEADWOOD, D. T. 



Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Black Hills Cabinet Minerals. 



I keep a large stock, and offer you following list, all Black Hills minerals. 

 Galena Ore — Silver- bearing ; Tin Ore — Fine showy formation, 

 Pyrite of Iron — cont'g Antimony, gold-bearing. 

 Quartz — milk white, pure, 



Qjuartz— rose, a beautiful pink, 



Quartz — Crystal Quartz, transparent, resembling Ice, 

 Mica — in white spar and quartz. 

 Gypsum — pure white, chalky. Mica — Schist — grey and white. 



Gypsum — crystalized, an odd variety. Mica — Plate — natiiral state, uncut. 



Satin Spar or Selenite — very handsome. 



Fern Porphyry (or Forest Rock) — 



yellow rock with fine fern impressions, 

 Tourmaline— massive, 



Tourmaline — large prismatic single crystals, black, 

 Rock Crystals — mass calcite, crystalized on rock, Tourmaline — crystals in white quartz, 



Calc Spar — translucent, . Dog Tooth Spar — white, in clusters. 



Calcite — translucent in fingers, crystalized. 

 Petrified Pine-wood and Moss, 



Plain Gold and Silver Ores, 



Fossil Fish — fish body petrified, from the " Bad Lands" of 



the Cheyenne river, 3 in. 50c. ; 4 in. 7Sc. ; 5 in. $1 each, 

 Fossil shells — 25 cents to $1.00 and up. 

 Write for price list of minerals. Colleges and museums special rates. 



Refer to banks and merchants of Deadwood. Address, 

 [Mention "Young Oologist.] L. W. STILWELL, DEADWOOD, -D. T. 



