THE OOLOGIST. 



-THE 



Resurrection Plant 



ONE OF THE 



GREATEST CURIOSITIES 



OF THE AGE. 



This singular pL-.nt is really one of the wonders of 

 creation. Imagine a bunch of withered looking, 

 curled up shoots, brown, stiff, and apparently dead, 

 resembling a bird's nest. Place it in water, in half an 

 hour what a transformation ! The withered looking 

 bunch has now opened and is transformed into a 

 lovely patch of green moss, entire y covering an 

 ordinary plate. In its native habitat, when the dry 

 season sets in. the plant curls up into a round ball and 

 is wafted away by winds from place to place, some- 

 times for hundreds of miles, when at last it reaches a 

 moist spot it gradually unfolds itself, makes new roots 

 and thrives in its new found home. 



Directions — Place the dry plant in water entirely 

 covered for two hours, then take out and put in 

 shallow dish with only roots in water; after remaining 

 in water for a few days, allow the plant to dry up 

 again, then perform the operation as before The 

 plant will never die, and will open and shut as often 

 as placed in and taken out of water. 



The plant must be see i to be appreciated, and 

 knowing that where we sell one of these plants we 

 are almost certain of selling several more, we offer 

 them at the following very low prices, viz : i plant, 

 post-paid, for only 15 cents; 2 plants for 25 cents; 

 10 for Si. 00, or 25 for $2.25; or better still, we will send 

 you one of these plants and the Oolgist for 1887, for 

 only 28 cents, 



PEANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y. 



^- yy wir^pRMY MADE EASY. STUFF- 

 I yLV yC • '-^ ^ ing Birds by a new method. 

 ■ ' *■» » Skinning unnecessary. The receipt for 

 a chemical composition that preserves and hardens the 

 flesh, leaving the body perfectly natural in form and 

 color, with complete directions for preserving and 

 mounting birds by this process. 



Write for full particulars to 



• -^Xr. "TTT". (3- 1 Xj 2vd: -a. 3^ , • 



Stoughton, _ _ - Wisconsin. 



THE OOLOGIST FOR 1886 



CONTAINS OVER 100 PAGES, 



within which are found fifty articles of length and 

 over one hundred short ones, besides many advertise 

 ments and exchange notices; of the more valuable 

 contributions mi^ht be mentioned the following, viz.: 



One Day on Chester Island with the Marsh Wrens ; 

 Birds of Cor land Co., N. Y. ; several articles on 

 Cabinet Making ; Nest of Black and White Creep- 

 er ; Summer Birds about Washington ; A ^Vate^ 

 Blowpipe; Vagary of a Collector ; My First 

 Hunt for Tern Eggs ; N. C. Notes ; Nest of Brown 

 Creeper; History of a Bird Box; I(>wa Notes; 

 Red-tailed Hawk's Nest ; A Review of the Check 

 Lists of North American Birds, &c. ; Maine as 

 a Field for the Ornithologist ; Nest of Whooping 

 Crane ; Spring Notes ; Chester Co., Pa. ; Chewink . 

 Nests in Tree ; A Day on Long . Island : Collect 

 Single Eggs . Illinois Notes ; Marsh Wrens ; Minn. 

 Notes ; and many others. 



The articles in above list printed in capitals contain, 

 alone, information worth many times my price for the 

 whole set. We have left a few hundred 



Complete Sets of Vol. III., 



and so long as supply lasts, will send one of them by 

 return mail for 



ONLY 40 CENTS. 



^^~ Single copies of any issue of Vol. III., 8c. each. 



Datas in Book Form. 



We have just issued the handiest and best article 

 in the Data line ever sent out — 



IT .CONSISTS OF loo OF OUR 



New No. 8 Data Blanks, 



With Stub Attachment, 



perforated, so as Data can easily be torn from stub, 

 nicely and strongly bound in board covers (check- 

 book form) When Data is torn from book, there 

 remains a 2-in. stub, with blank for writing the essen- 

 tial parts of the data — also for writing how, when, 

 to whom, and for what disposed. If you wish to copy 

 the Data in full, you can do so by writing description 

 on back of the stub. Sample leaf for stamp 



^P'" If you could see a sample book, you would use 

 no other. 



SAMPLE, 35cts.; 3 for 11.00; 10 for $3.00. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, 



/Ibion, N. Y. 



Send for reduced price-list I have a number of 

 both Nos. 686 and 688 that I will sell for 5c. a piece, 

 or i^qc. per doz. Adcre-s. 



L. M. SPAULDING. Albion, N. Y. 



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 always mention " The Oologist." 



