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AMP-FIRES OF A NATURALIST, From the 

 Field 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, $1.50. 



" 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 Gumming, for example, 

 in South Africa. His grizzly bear is as dangerous as the lion, and his mountain sheep 

 and goats more difficult to stalk and shoot than any creatures of the torrid zone. Evi- 

 dently he came by his tastes as a hunter from liielong experience." — Ne-w 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 beasts." — Chicago Inier-Oceati. 



"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." — Brooklyn 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 generation growing up, if only 

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

 with the background of culture and the environment of educational advantages that 

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

 from this account of him, to have thought no 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 York Times, 



*' The adventures are simply told, but some of them are thrilling of necessity, how- 

 ever modestly the narrator does his work. Prof. Dyche has had about as many expe- 

 riences in the way of hunting for science as fall to the lot of the mcst 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 re^^ion he was successful in securing rare specimens for his museum." — Chicago 

 Times. 



"The literary construction is refreshing The reader is carried into the midst oi 

 the very scenes of which ths author tells, not bv elaborateness of description but by the 

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

 the companions with which the book h^s provided him, for incident is made to follow 

 incident with no intervening literary padding. In fact, the book is all action." — Ka?tsaS 

 City yournal. 



"As an outdoor book of camping and hunting this book poEse?';es a timelj! 

 interest, but it also has the merit of sc-entific exactness in the descriptions of the 

 habits, peculiarities, and haunts of wild zTi\m2^'s,y ^Philadelphia Press. 



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

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

 notes neither have been ' dressed up ' and their accuracy thereby impaired, nor yet rC' 

 tailed in a dry and statistical manner. The book, in a word, is a plain narrative of 

 adventures among the larger American ^TC\xti'3X%." —Philadelphia Bulletitt. 



" We recommend it most heartily to old and young aUke, and suggest it as a beauti- 

 ful souvenir volume for those who have seen the wonderful display of mounted animal? 

 at the World's Pair."— To^^^a Capital. 



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