Natural 



News. 



VOL. I. No. 2. 



ALBION, N. Y., FEB. 9, 1895. 



Weekly, $1.00 a year 



Wants, Exchanges, and For 

 Sales. 



Brief special announcements, "Wants," "Ex- 

 changes," "For Sales," inserted in this depart- 

 ment for 25c per 35 words Notices over 35 words 

 charged at the rate of one-half cent per each ad- 

 ditional word. No notice inserted for less than 

 25c. Terms, cash with order. 



WANTED. Indian relics, foreign copper 

 coins, specialities. Swedish and Canadian; C. 

 S. A. and State issues (war period) paper mon- 

 ey, &c in exchange for duplicates in ray collec- 

 tion. ERWIN G. WARD, Palmer, Mass. 



EXCHANGE.— "Popular Geology"and"Foot- 

 prints of the Creator" by Hugh Miller, "Sea 

 and Land" by J W. Buel. "Forest and Stream 

 Bird Notes" by Bailey. J. M. KECK, Mentor, 

 Ohio. 



WANTED. --Back numbers of Auk, works on 

 entomology, botany, and ornithology. Can ex- 

 change Latin authors, Princeton Review "for 

 1883,magazines. scientific and theological books. 

 J. M. KECK, Mentor, Ohio. 



WANTED.— To collect sets and singles of this 

 locality for sets and singles of other localities 

 the coming season. Write for particulars. A. 

 A. WARNER, Roca, Nebr. 



TO EXCHANGE — Stamps.books.papers.etc 

 for Indian relics and minerals. Fossil fern 

 prints, polished woods and botanical specimens 

 in summer, for same as above. MURRAY 

 EAST, DuQuoin, 111. 



ZOOLOGICAL Report of U. S. Pacific Coast 

 Survey to exchange for works on Oology or 

 Oological specimens. CLYDE L. SMITH, 

 Noble, Ills. 



WANTED.— A Coues' Key or Ridgeway's 

 Manual. Will pay cash or give good exchange. 

 Write stating condition and lowest cash price. 

 ROBT. W. HAINES, Box 125, Baker City, Ore. 



TO CLEAN out our datas we offer them at 

 £0c per 100. $1 50 per 1000 A quansitv exchanged 

 for A 1 eggs with data. G. W. BAILEY, Lon- 

 don West, Ont. 



WILL collect nice sets this season at ?>j cat. 

 rates. Those desiring me to collect for them 

 address me at once. All sets well prepared. 

 R. N. WILLIAMS, Tallahassee, Fla. 



A. B. DUMOUCHEL, Collector of Birds. 

 Mammals and Eggs. I solicit correspondence 

 from reliable collectors from all parts of U.S. 

 and Canada during collecting season. Address 

 295 St Hubert St., Montreal, Canada. 



WANTED. — Bird skins from California and 

 Texas in exchange for skins of New Jersey. 

 Also have shells, minerals, insects and curios 

 to exchange fc specimens. FERDINAND W. 

 KNOLHOFF, 30 Winans St., East Orange, N.J. 



MICHIGAN Lepidopterists.— Will all such 

 and all Michigan Zoologists interested in the 

 problems of faunal distribution, please send 

 their address to ROBT. H. WOLCOTT. M. D., 

 133 Clinton St., Grand Rapids. Mich; tempor- 

 ary address, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 

 Neb. 



A MEMBER of the New York Genealor/ieal 

 Society and the Methodist Historical Society; for 

 a moderate compensation would search church, 

 probate and other public records to establish 

 family lineage, etc. Address, DANIEL H. 

 CARPENTEK, Maplewood, N. J. l-!t 



WANTED.- Coues' Key, latest edition, in 

 good order. Have telegraph instrument, eggs 

 in sets and singles, minerals, Buffalo horns and 

 curios. Will give good exchange. H. H. 

 SHAW, 413 8th Avenue, Grand Forks, N. D. 



BALD EAGLE IN MEAT, perfect condition, 

 procurred Feb. 7th, third year's plumage, no 

 broken bones nor bloody feathers. Parties 

 meaning business address at once. L. V. 

 CASE, Geneseo, N. Y. 



" SUNBEAM !" a new magazine, for Young 

 People. 6 months and 25 fine visiting cards and 

 samples, 25 cents. SUNBEAM CARD WORKS, 

 245 Bronson Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 



When answering advertisements always men- 

 tion the NATURAL SCIENCE NEWS. 



I WILL exchange, by mail, specimens of gel- 

 enite, marcasite. sphalerite, calamite. calcite 

 and chalcopyrite, for well crystallised cabinet 

 minerals. W. P. CLEVELAND, Box 51. 

 Joplin, Mo. 



WANTED - Polished specimens of emerald, 

 agate, white and green, stripped, banded or 

 fortification. C. L. HOWES, Stamford, Conn. 



TO EXCHANGE.- 500 Strombus, alatus, 

 shells, flintlock gun. If 10X00 in Continental 

 money, Revolution bayonet. Want works on 

 natural history, specimens, etc. A. BENNETT, 

 Williamsville, Mass. 



IDEAL BICVCLE Chain Lubricant solves 

 the problem. Big money for agents Sample 

 stick 10 cents. ROLPH & HATMAKER, Al- 

 bion, N. Y. 



GOLDEN SEA SHELLS sent postpaid for 

 25cts. a hundred. Pretty to trim curtains and 

 lambrequins with. Send to A. D. AYER, M D., 

 Lock Box 407, Madison, Conn. 



TO EXCHANGE. — Birds' skins for eggs in 

 sets with data or marine shells, Send your 

 list and receive mine. MRS. H. K. SEDG- 

 WICK, Dexter, Mich. 



WANTED.— Collectors and taxidermists, who 

 will use a number of birds and mammals in the 

 meat, during the coming spring to send for my 

 new list. FLOYD T. COON, Milton, Wis. 



TO EXCHANGE — Land and freshwater 

 shells for same, or bird :-kins JAMES W. 

 BROWN, Giddings, Tex. 



WANTED. — One volume of "The Young Ship- 

 builders of Elm Island. Apply, H.F. EASTEK, 

 Sewanee, Tenn. 



WANTED. -Coues' Key, latest edition, also 

 a few Colt's powder and ball revolvers, not less 

 than 38 calibre. All must be first-class. Will 

 pay cash. REGINALD G. PAPE, McLeaus- 

 boro, Ills. 



TO EXCHANGE.— Books (cloth boundi, old 

 coins, specimens and birds' eggs, for fossils or 

 minerals, or books on Taxidermy. ERN EST 

 GROVE, Box 701. LeMars. Iowa. 



VITJE, ORE will cure diptberia. And for all 

 chronic ailments this mineral has no equal. 

 Address, W. A. Perdew, Agent, Chillicothe, 

 Ohio. 



WANTED — Catalogues of all firms dealing 

 in shells, curios, minerals, etc. Also samples 

 of publications. Address, HARRY H. ELLS, 

 Charlotte. Mich. 



WANTED. — Small cabinet with drawers, 

 mounted Blue-bird. Have in exchange skates, 

 stamp , 24 in.safety, and stamp collection. 

 A. G. DOVE, Geneva, N. Y. 



FIRST-CLASS birds' eggs in sets with orig- 

 inal data wanted. Address ROY HATHAWAY. 

 Red Key, Hid. 



TO EXCHANGE — Sets and singles of this 

 locality for eggs of other localities. I prefer 

 common eggs in exchange. ROB'T A. TOM- 

 LINSON, Alden, Iowa. 



WANTED —Eggs in sets with data. Will 

 give in exchange a lot of good story papers, a 

 small piinting press, eggs and skins. O. W. 

 KNIGHT. 157 Hammond St , Bangor, Me. 



TO EXCHANGE.— A large variety of eggs 

 in sets or singles, all first-class. 0. H. HED- 

 LEY. 584 West Ferry St., Buffalo, N. Y, 



WANTED.— Eggs in sets, minerals, curios 

 and U. S. stamps for Polyp/te mux and Gecropia 

 cocoons. What offers for a No. 1 kodak with 

 carrying case V R. V. N. DAVIS, 55 Park St.. 

 Rutland. Vt, 



FOR EXCHANGE. — $6X0 worth of good 

 stamps in Scott's Album for minerals or shells. 

 Send list to HARRY C, SIMONS, Oak Lane, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



STAMPS.— 100 all different, Japan, Mexico, 

 &c, lOcts. ; 100 mixed. Sets. ; 800 assorted. 5Ucts; 

 10 fine stamps and 500 hinges, 25cts ; 18 French 

 colonies, 25cts. ; 20 Spain. Mo^ts. ; 16 U. S. 30cts. 

 Postage extra. H. F. BUTLER, Newton High- 

 lands, Mass. 



TO EXCHANGE. -A World Type Writer in 

 fine black walnut case, new, cost $17 50, for bes. 

 Offers. ALBION CARD WORKS. Albion, N.Y 



TO EXCHANGE. — Silurian, Devonian, Car- 

 boniferous, and Cretaceous Fossils to exchange 

 for fossils not in my collection. Send lists of 

 what you nave and roceive mine. R. D. GOSS, 

 Box 101, New Sharone. Mahaska Co., Iowa. 



WANTED.— No's 16, 17 18. 19 and 20. of Ani- 

 mated Creation, published by Yelmar & Hess, 

 for a No. 1 Baltimorean printing press ERILE 

 MORTON. 517 N 2d St.. Leavenworth. Kans 



TO EXCHANGE. -500 varieties U. S and 

 foreign stamps, and birds eggs. For minerals, 

 shells, curior. of all kinds JUSTIN V. BIRD, 

 Gregory. Livingston Co., Michigan. 



TO EXCHANGE. — Fine mounted Loon in 

 ebonized case, complete, for best offer in eggs 

 or skins over $12. A. W. HANA FORD, 139 West 

 Fulton St., Grand Rapids. Mich. 



EXCHANGE for Indian relics, curios, and 

 minerals: 47 birds eggs of birds of New York 

 State. Send your list and get mine. LEE-ROY 

 J. TAPPAN, Newark Valley, Tioga Co., N. Y. 



WANTED — A Coues' Key in good condition. 

 Will give in exchange $15 worth of first-class 

 sets. H. W. CARRIGER, Sonoma. Sonoma Co. 

 Calif. 



WANTED.— All live and energetic collectors 

 in Ornithology, Oology and Con-^hology, to cor- 

 respond with me in regard to exchanging du- 

 ring the coming season. C. ('. PURDUM, 110 

 W. Mulberry St., Baltimore, Md. 



TO EXCHANGE. — First-class sets and singles 

 with data to exchange for same. J, W. HITT 

 169 Broadway, Indianapolis, Ind. 



TO EXCHANGE. -I would like to exchange 

 eggs of this locality for others. Have got a lot 

 ol type, reading matter and other things to ex- 

 change. GEORGE bINGLEY, 26 West High 

 St., Lockport, N. Y. b 



TO EXCHANGE.— Sets and singles of this 

 locality, lor same of other localities. Collec- 

 tion of U. S. postage and revenue stamps for 

 all sets with uata. CLARENCE H.iRTLNGER 

 Alden. Ia. 



FIRST-CLASS eggs in sets to exchange for 

 stamps. MILTON C. HOWE, Monson, Mass 



FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.-Peacocks and 

 peahens, separate or in pairs. Fine young 

 birds in full plumage. JOSEPH FAIRHALL 

 Grape Creek. 111. 



WANTED.— To buy a few "glass snakes." 

 (Optiisaurus rent ratis.) alive and uninjured 

 and to learn anjthidg you know of them. 

 ANGUS GAINES, Vincennes, Indiana. 



FERRETS.— I have nine first-class ferrets 

 which I will sell at the following greatly re- 

 duced rates: Will carefully box and ship by 

 express at purchaser's expense : Single ferrets 

 each, $2; pairs S3.S0; three for $5; four or over 

 $1.50 each. Address, enclosing P. O. Money 

 Order; HENRY CLARK, Gaines, Orleans Co" 

 N. Y. 



FOR SALIi — $150 pneumatic bicyde. Will 

 sell for $50. Write for particulars' to RUP- 

 PERT HENRY. 619 Mulberry St., Rockfoi d. 111. 



FOR EXCHANGE. -One pair of unused 

 Latin's climbers, for best offer in sets with 

 data or books on Oology. Addiess IRA 

 CLOKEY, Decatur, 111. 



WANTED. — A dissecting microscope and 

 camera lucida. Will pay cash. W.S.JOHN- 

 SON, Box 228, Boonville, N. Y. 



$75.00 will buy a new 201b Raleigh bicycle, suit- 

 able for road or track use Write for particu- 

 lars. JOHN J. KINGSLEY, 10 Elm St., Rut- 

 land, Vt. 



I HAVE two of Mekeel's blank stamp albums 

 almost new, cost $8. to exchange for fine sets or 

 books on natural history. GEORGE D 

 FRENCH, Ivoryton, Conn. 



TO EXCHANGE. — United States and foreign 

 stamps for eggs in sets or singles. H J 

 EVANS, Unity, Maine. 



WANTED.— Minerals, fossils and shells. Can 

 offer for same magazines, sets and printing to 

 order. Send for samples of printing. ROY 

 CRIHFIELD, Atlanta, 111. 



GOOD SPECIMENS, Cone-in-cone from 

 Chautauqua County, N Y. 25 cents each, post- 

 paid. B. J. HATMAKER, Albion, N. Y. 



