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AMP-FIRES OF A NATURALIST, From the 



BMeld Notes of Lewis Lindsay Dyche, A. M., M. S., Professor 



of Zoology and Curator of Birds and Mammals in the Kansas 



State University. The Story of Fourteen Expeditions after 



North American Mammals. By Clarence E. Edwords, 



With numerous Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, !i?i.50. 



" It is not always that a professor of zoology is so enthusiastic a sportsman as Prof, 

 Dyche. His hunting exploits are as varied as those of Gordon Cumming, for example, 

 in South Africa His grizzly bear is as dangerous as the lion, and his mountain si eep 

 and goats more dlffiuult to stalk and shoot than any cieatures of the torrid zone. Evi- 

 dently he came by his tastes as a hunter from lifelong experience."— AVw York 

 Tribune. 



" The book has no dull pages, and is often excitingly interesting, and fully in-- 

 structive as to the habits, haunts, and nature of wild hea.sts."—CAzca^o Jnter-Ocean. 



*• There is abundance of interesting incident in addition to the scientific element, 

 and the illustrations are numerous; and highly graphic as to the big game met by the 

 hunters, and the hardships cheerfully undertaken." — Brcoklyit Eagle. 



'* The narrative is simple and manly and full of the freedom of forests. , . . This 

 record of his work ought to awaken the interest of the generations growing up, if only 

 by the contrast of his active experience of the resources of Nature and of savage life 

 with the backgrjund of culture and the environmert of educational advaniages that 

 are being rapidly formed for the students of the United States. Prof. Dyche seems, 

 frim this account of him, to have thought jio personal hardship or exertion wasted in 

 his attempt to collect facts, that the naturalist of the future may be provided with com- 

 plete and verified ideas as to species which will soon be extinct This is good work — 

 work that we need and that posterity will recognize with gratitude. The illustrations 

 of the book are interesting, and the type is clear." — Neiv Yo7-k Times. 



"The adventures are simply told, but some of them are thrilling of necessit\', how- 

 ever modestly the narrator does his work. Prof. iJyche has had about as many ex- 

 periences in the way of hunting for science as fall to the lot of the most fortunate, and 

 this recountal of them is most interesting. The camps from which he worked ranged 

 from the Lake of the Woods to Arizona, and northwest to British Columbia, and in 

 every region he was successful in securing rare specimens for his mn^^Mm."— Chicago 

 Times. 



"The literary construction is refreshing. The reader is carried into the midst of 

 the very scenes of which the author tells, not by elaborateness of description, hut by 

 the directness and vividness of every sentence. He is given no opportunity to abandon 

 the companions with which the book has provided him, for incident is made tn follow 

 incident with no intervening literary padding. In fact, the book is all action."— A'aw- 

 sas City JoHr7iaL 



" As an outdoor booh of camping and hunting this book possesses a timely interest, 

 but It also has the merit of scientific exactness in the descriptions of the habits, pecul- 

 iarities, aud haunts of wild animals "—Philadelphia Press. 



"But what is most important of all in a narrative of this kind— for it seems to us 

 that Camp-Fires of a Naturalist' was written first of all for entertainment— these notes 

 neither have b-en ' dressed up ' and their accuracy thereby impaired, nor yet retailed in 

 a dry and stEitistical manner. The book, in a word, is a plain narrative of adventure^ 

 among the larger American ■^nimah."—Philn<ielphia Bulletin. 



"We recommend it most heartily to old and young alike, and sugEie=t it as a bean- 

 tifuUou venir volume for those who have seen the wonderful display of mounted animals 

 at the World s Fair."— 7V/^/-rt Capital, 



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