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^HE ART OF TAXIDERMY. By John Row- 



-* LEY, Chief of the Department of Taxidermy in the American 

 Museum of Natural History. Illustrated. l2mo. Cloth, §2.00. 



Mr. Rowley has ir.troduced new features into the art which have not been described 

 in print before, nnd his book represents th; latest advances in laxiderniy as an art and 

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 and gives a series of vivid pictures of actual field work. This is followed by a series 01 

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 he;ids. The many lovers of outdoor sport who are interested as amateurs in the varmus 

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 dermists this important and comprehensive work will be indispensable. It is elabo- 

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INSECT LIFE. By John Henry Comstock, Pro- 



-* fessor of Entomology in Cornell University. With Illustra- 



tions by Anna l>ot.sford Comstock, member of the Society of 

 American Wood Engravers. i2mo. Library Edition, cloth, 

 $2.50; Teachers' and Students' Edition, %\ 50. 



"Any one who will go through the work with fidelity will be rewardt;d by a 

 knowledge of insect life which will be of pleasure and benefit to him at all seasons, and 

 will give an increased charm to the days or weeks spent each summer outside of the 

 great cities. It is the best book of Its class which has yet appeared." — Neiv 1 ork 

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"The arrangement of the lessons and experiments and the advice on collection and 

 manipulation are only some of the very admirable features of a work that must take 

 first place in the class to which it hc\ov\.%^." —Fkiladelphia Press. 



" The volume is admirably written, and the simple and lucid style is a constant de- 

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 and the love of natural science which it will develop in youthful minds cjn hardly fail 

 to bear rich fruit." — Boston Beacon. 



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UT LINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORY. 



By Prof. N. S. Shaler, of Harvard University. Illustrated. 

 i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



"Any one who reads the preliminary ch:ipters will not stop nnlil he has read the 

 entire bonk. The subject is certainly one of supreme interest, and it would be hard to 

 find any one more competent to write about it thsn Professor Shaler."— iV^eif York 

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" Prof':ssor Shaler fortunately possesses a popular style, and what he writes on a 

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 number of splendid full-page cuts, whicii admirably illuminate the work." — Boston 

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" Professor Shaler, of Harvard, in the well-w'>rded text and the handsome illustra- 

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 ous and increasing, unceasin::; energies. It is well calculated to arouse an interest in 

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 dent meets in this broad field of science. . - . He explains many curious phenomena. 

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