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THE Tj^LLET IsTJLTTJ^^JLjIST. 
BOOKS BY MAIL, POST-PAID. 
THE NATURALIST'S GUIDE. Maynard. (New Edition, 1877.) $2 00 
BOTANICAL DIRECTORY FOR AMERICA, (1878, paper,) 40 
HOW TO USE THE MICROSCOPE. Phin. (Second Edition, 1877.) 75 
BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA. Strecker. (1878, paper.) ............. 2 00 
Subscriptions received for Scientific Periodicals at low rates. Send for 
List. Address, 
THOS. E. BEAIT, 
506 Olive Street, Room 43, ST. LOUIS, MO. 
Ethnological Collection for Sale. 
Representing the Hunting, Fishing and War Implements, and the different modes of 
dress of the 
ESG^XJI1S^A_XJX: OF ALASKA, 
Also Costumes and Implements of Indians in the Alaska Region. 
The collection is carefully selected and is in excellent condition. The bone and ivory 
articles are extensively carved. 
For particulars apply to 
Dr. J. SCHNECK, Mount Carmel, Illinois. 
SALE AGENCY. 
Naturalists and Collectors who wish to place surplus material ON SALE, are requested to 
write to the undersigned. 
Persons applying for lists, or sending memoranda of wants, will be answered on arrival 
of material. 
N. A. LEPIDOPTERA A SPECIALTY. 
Scientific publications wanted, ON sale or at low prices for cash. 
Subscriptions received for the AMERICAN NATURALIST, and other scientific periodicals, 
THOS- E_ BEA1ST, 
506 Olive Street, Room 43, ST. LOUIS, MO. 
ESTABLISHED 1872. 
E. F. GAMBS, 
621 South Fifth Street, SAINT LOUIS, M0. 
Importer and dealer in Foreign and United States Postage, Revenue, Document, Local 
Stamps, etc., etc. Postage and Revenue Stamp Albums. Foreign revenues and Post Cards 
kept constantly on hand. Publisher of the St. Louis Philatelist (third year of publication) 
a valuable illustrated eight-page Stamp Journal devoted exclusively to stamp collecting. 
Commended by the press and public everywhere. Specimen copies free for stamp. Adver- 
tisements, stamps 40 cents per line, or $5. per half column; others 20 cents a line or $2.50 per 
half column. Collections of stamps bought and sold. 
The largest assortment of U. S. Private Revenue Stamps in the World. 
CHEAP BOOM AND PAPERS. 
Send for lists of good books, general literature, at much less 
than publishers' prices, and post-paid. Newspaper and magazine 
subscriptions at low rates ; lists on application. 
THOS- IEL BBAlsr 3 
506 OLIVE STREET, Room 43, SAINT LOUIS, MO. 
NATURAL SCIENCE 
ESTABLISHMENT, 
ROCHESTER, - - NEW YORK. 
Supplies Museums, Academies, Schools, 
Colleges and Private Collections with sys- 
tematic cabinets or individual specimens 
throughout the whole range of the Animal 
and Mineral Kingdoms. 
I have now on hand in immense variety, 
fine skins, skeletons, mounted and alcoholic 
specimens of 
MAMMALS, 
BIRDS, 
REPTILES 
and FISHES, 
together with thousands of 
INVERTEBRATES, 
comprising beautiful specimens of Sponges, 
Corals, Star-Fish, Sea-Urchins and Crus- 
taceans. 
Also exquisite 
MODELS IN GLASS 
of over 600 forms of these Invertebrates, es- 
pecially those, which— like the Sea Anemones 
Jelly Fish and Cuttle Fish— defy preserva- 
tion in their natural shape and color. 
I have also for sale over 275 species of 
AMERICAN BIRDS' EGGS, 
and more than 350 Foreign species. 
My stock of 
MINERALS, 
ROCKS 
and ORES 
is unusually large and fine, while of 
FOSSILS 
1 have a splendid assortment of the char- 
acteristic type-forms of each successive age 
of the earth's history. 
Also extensive and varied collections of 
ARCHAEOLOGY 
and ETHNOLOGY. 
In addition to these, I offer my 
CASTS OF CELEBRATED FOSSILS, 
which are exact fac-similes in form and col- 
or of celebrated and typical fossil forms from 
the Royal Museums of Europe. 
Orders will be carefully filled, and corres- 
pondence promptly attended to. 
Catalogues in every department. . 
Descriptive circulars with price-list of cat- 
alogues, etc. sent on application. * 
Address, 
HENRY A. WARD, 
2 College Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 
