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THE OOLOGIST'S HAND-BOOK, 



Lattin's Catalogue and Price-List 

 of North American Birds' Eggs and Oological Supplies 



IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY. 



Neither time nor expense has been spared to make it invaluable to the oologist, 

 whether amateur or professional. It contains 



Eighty-six Pages of Valuable Information. 



It gives our regular price list of oological 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) 

 nomanclature of 1881; it gives the numbers used in Baird's check-list of 1859 and those 

 used by Coues' of 1883; it gives the value of the eggs of over 500 species of North 

 American birds, this fact alone making the catalogue invaluable 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 bdlono;ing to each family. It gives, approximately, 

 the number of eggs in a clutch of every American bird. It tells how to prepare speci- 

 mens 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 



T^WEHSTTY-IFI^E CENTS, 



or we can furnish the hand-book bound in cloth and 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. 



L. W. STILIELL, DEADWOOD, D. T. 



WHOLESALE AXD RETAIL DEALER IX 



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 — con' g Antimony, gold-bearing. 

 Quartz — milk white, pure, Quartz — rose, a beautiful pink, Quartz — Crystal, Quartz — transparent, resem- 

 bling Ice, Mica — in white spar and quartz, Mica — Schist — grey and white, Mica — Plate — natural 

 state, uncut, Gypsum — pure white, chalky, Gypsum — crystalized, an odd variety, 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, Tourmaline-crystals in 

 white quartz, Dog Tooth Spar-white, in clusters, Rock Crystals-mass calcite, crystalized on rock, 

 Calc Spar — translucent, 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. 75.; 5 in. fi each;. Fossil shells — 25 cents to $1.00 and up, 

 Feldspar — white, Garnet Slate — surface warted with garnets. Smoky Quartz, Very Black Mica Plates, Free- 

 Gold specimen, from Si. 50 up, according to richness. Moss Agates, from 5c. to $3.00 each, Asbestus — 

 fibrous, from 10 to 25c. per specimen, Stream Tin — coarse, grain, assays, 58 percent., 5c. per ounce. 

 Specimens of an}' of the above, except when priced otherwise, 4c. per ounce, postpaid. A speci- 

 men of quartz ij^xi^ in., will weigh about 2 ozs; one 2^x2^, about 5 ozs. Any size 

 desired, furnished. Ten pounds of assorted minerals, S3. 00, purchaser to pay express charges. Everything 

 on the above list postpaid for prices named. Write for price list of minerals. Colleges and museums 



special rates. Refer to banks and merchants of Deadwood. Address, 

 Mention The Obnithomgist, L. W. STILWELL, Deadwood, D. T. 



