HERBERT W, MARSDEN, 



NATURAL HISTORY AGENT AND BOOKSELLER, 



40, TRIANGLE West, CLIFTON, BRISTOL. 



Cabinets and Apparatus. Entomological Pins. Waxed Leaves and Glass Eyes. 



Store Boxes, Nets, &c. Taxidermists' Tools. Walking Stick and Air Guns. 



The most reliable stock of BIRDS' SKINS and BIRDS' EGGS in Britain. 



British, European, and Exotic Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, &c. 



New and Second-hand Books. Exchange and Label Lists. 



Taxidermy of the highest class. Birds or Animals skinned, stuffed, and cased. 



Heads, Horns, &c, mounted for trophies. Rugs made up, Ac. 



Send stamped wrapper for Ornithological Catalogue, Oct. 189'i ; Shell Catalogue, 1895, Ac. 



N.B. — Mr. Mursden's business ivas entirely removed from Gloucester in. 1889. 



WATKINS & DONCASTER, 



Manufacturers of Natural History Apparatus, 

 Cabinets, Store-Boxes, &c. 



A large stock of Insects, Birds' Eggs, &c. (British, European and Exotic), 

 List of clutches on application. Climbing Irons, best steel, with straps 

 complete, os. per pair. Brass Blowpipes, 4d. and 6d. each. Drills, 2d., 

 3d., and 9d. each. Label Lists of every description. New Preservative 

 Soap, non-poisonous, Is. per box; 3s. 6d. per lb. Taxidermists' Tools. 

 Artificial Eyes, Leaves, Grass, &c. Taxidermy in all its branches. Price 

 List (90 pp.) post free. 



36, STRAND, LONDON, W.G. (only address). 



BOTANICAL DRYING PAPER 



For Drying- Flowering- Plants, Ferns, & Sea=weeds. 



Preserves form and colour in the hest possible manner, and seldom, if ever, 

 requires change of sheets whilst the plants are being dried ; it is stout and durable. 

 Used by the Arctic ships, and on the cruise of H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



Sizes and Prices. 

 lb* inches by 10, when folded, 15s. per ream, Is. Id. per quire. 

 •id ., 1G, ,, 30s. ,, 2s. 2d. 



DIRDSNESTING & BIRD=SKINNING. A Complete 



^~^ Description of the Nests and Eggs of Birds which Breed in Britain, 

 by Edward Newman. — Skcond Edition, with Directions for Collecting and 

 Preservation ; a Chapter on Bird-skinning ; and Description and Woodcuts of 

 the Instruments necessary to the Collector. By Miller Christy. Cloth extra. 

 Fcap Svo. Price Is. 



THE INSECT HUNTER'S COMPANION. Iustruc- 

 tions for collecting and preserving Butterflies and Moths, Beetles, Bees. 

 Flies, &c. By the Rev. Joseph Greene, M.A. — Fourth Edition, revised and 

 extended by A. B. Farn. The Chapter on Coleoptera by Edward Newman; on 

 Hvmenoptera by Frederick Smith ; on Breeding Gall-flies by Edward A. Fitch. 

 Whereto find moths and butterflies; how to catch; how to bring home without 

 injury.; how to kill; how to set; how to find the caterpillars; how to manage; 

 how to feed ; how to breed the perfect insects ; and numerous similar subjects. 

 Price Is. — 



London: WEST, NEWMAN & CO., 54, Hatton Garden. 



