PvURING the year Nineteen-hundred and Four our Ameri- 

 - 1 - 7 can sales of mineral specimens were more than double 

 the average annual sales of the four preceding years. In this 

 highly specialized business the bulk of the trade increasingly 

 seeks that establishment which offers the widest choice of good 

 specimens at reasonable prices. Our material is carefully 

 selected by trained mineralogists, from the largest and most 

 varied stock of minerals in the world — the slow accumulation 

 of nearly thirty years. By actual comparison, it is larger than 

 that of any other three mineral dealers combined. 



As in the past, we shall continue to supply promptly,, 

 museum specimens and practically all of our regular catalogued 

 collections. But laboratory material sold by weight, or cheap 

 individual specimens, are temporarily subject to unavoidable 

 delays, in spite of doubling of our force to keep pace with an 

 increasing trade. Your spring order for laboratory or other 

 cheap specimens should be sent now to avoid possible 

 disappointment. 



FOOTE MINERAL CO., 



Established by Dr. A. E. Foote, 1876. < 

 W. M. Foote, M'g'r, 



1317 Arab. Street, Philadelphia. 



