CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. 



Lists of Collections of Minerals from. 25 in a neat hardwood box at 50 cts. , 

 up to 600 of good nrasenm size, will be foxmd in the September 1894 Leisure 

 Hour. These collections either with or without the hard wood cases are 

 among the most desirable gifts that any one can present to a friend. Their 

 price is much below that asked by others for specimens so accurately labeled 

 and so uniformly good and characteristic. 



THOUSANDS OF RARE, BEAUTIFUL AND 

 INTERESTING SPECIMENS 



are also mentioned in the September Leisure Hour that would delight any ' 

 collector. What is more beautiful than perfect Sulphurs from Sicily, Pyrites 

 or Hematite from Elba, Selenite, some showing beautiful inclusions of crys- 

 tallized Sulphur or moving bubble or Aragonite, frorn Sicily, or transparent 

 cleavages of great size showing moving bubble, from Utah, Smithsonite of 

 various colors from Laurium, Greece, Paisbergite of remarkable color from 

 Sweden, Calcites, Fluorites and Barites in great variety from England ; . 

 Quartz in wonderfully beautiful crystals and groups from Dauphiny, France ; 

 Herkimer Co. N. Y. ; Hot Springs, Ark. ; Switzerland, and Pike's Peak, Col. ; 

 the two last of beautiful smoky color ; Malachite and Azurite crystallized 

 and polished ; Wulfenite and Vanadinite of various colors from Arizona 

 and New Mexico ; Rubellite, Colemanite, etc., from California ; Calcite, Zinc 

 blende, Galena, etc., from Missouri ; Apatite, Perthite and others from 

 Canada ; Amazon Stone, Pyrites, Smoky Quartz, blue Ba.rite, etc., from 

 Colorado ; Amethyst, Native Copper, Chlorastrolites, Native Silver, etc., Lake 

 Superior region ; Wavellite, Variscite, Vesuvianite, etc., Arkansas ; Pyrites, 

 Chalcopyrite, Rutile, Byssolite in Calcite, etc, Pennsylvania ; Broivn Tourma- 

 line, Prehnite, Rhodonite var. Fowlerite, Calamine, Willemite yellow Axinite, 

 etc., New Jersey ; Chondrodite, Clinochlore, Tourmalines, etc., New York. 



The above are only a few of the many beautiful species mentioned in our 

 September, 1894, Leisure Hour, and in the Catalogue. 



Of the vast number of rare and interesting species mentioned, space will 

 only permit mention of Boliite, Cumenge'ite, Sphaerocobaltite, Remingtonite, 

 etc., from Boleo, Mexico; Finely crystallized Molybdenite in the gangue, 

 Twin Zircons, etc., from Canada; Hauerite, Native Lead, Kentrolite, Mat- 

 lockite, Phosgenite, etc., etc. 



Send for our 32 page illustrated, September Leisure Hour and Price List 

 free. 



128 pp. Catalogue of Minerals with plates and other illustrations, bound, 

 25 cents. 



Catalogues of Scientific Books free, or on heavy paper, 5 cts. for each 32 

 pages. 



A Scientific Book would be a most acceptable Christmas gift ; some can be 

 furnished containing the book plates and autographs of celebrated scientific 

 men, such as Leidy, Genth, Fitch, etc. 



The following are a few of the most valuable that have recently been 

 purchased : 



Michaux. North Am. Sylva. 2 vols. 155 col. pi. 8, . . $25.00 



Owen. Comparative Anatomy. 3 vols. 8, new. . . 15.00 



Penna. 2d Geological Survey. 115 vol. 8, 1, . . . 35.00 



Ponson. Exploitation des Mines de Houille. 4 vol. Text and folio. 



Atlas of 80 pi. hcf. 1852, 1, . . . . . 7.50 



Rashleigh. Specimens of British Minerals. 54 col. pi. 4to hcf. 1797, 



nice copy, only 100 copies printed, . . . .6.00 



Transactions of Linnean Soc. 14 vols. 4to, . . . 45.00 



Truran. Iron Manufacture of Great Britain. 84 pi. 4to hmor. 3d. 



ed. 1865, 2, celebrated work, . . . , .5.00 



DR. A. E. FQOTE, 1224-26-28 North 41st Street, 



Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. 



