TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Catalogues of Natural History Specimens 1 
New Skin Catalogue 1 
Australia 1 
Editorial Notes.. 2 
McGill University 2 
University of the Pacific 2 
Collections Sold - - 2 
Sights and Scenes in Lipari; Letter from Prof. 
Ward 3 
Mineralogy — New Minerals 3 
Mineralogy — Systematic Collections — 4 
Organisms in Meteorites.. 4 
The 1882 Crop of Meteorites 5 
Homo Diluvii Testis, or the Fossil Salaman- 
der of Oeningen 5 
Geology 5 
Palaeontology - - 6 
Casts of Fossils 6 
Archaeology and Ethnology 6 
California Academy of Sciences— The Ward 
Collection — , 7 
Two Valuable Collections 7 
The New Scriptures 8 
Man against Wild Beasts. — 8 
Pal mam Ferat qui Meruit 8 
The British Ass (Poem). 8 
The Darwinian Creed 8 
The Giant Salamander of Japan 9 
Te Lyre Bird ) Poem 10 
Notes on the Lyre Bird ... 10 
Alaskan Birds 10 
Elliott’s Seal Islands of Alaska 11 
A Remarkable Gathering of Gar Fish 11 
Cast of a Whale 11 
Coues’ Check List of North American Birds. 12 
Pentacrinus caput-medusae 12 
Microscopical Objects 12 
Mr. and Mrs. Noah in the Ark.. 12 
Man-eating Crocodiles 12 
Osteological Abnormalities in Cats. 12 
Bulletin of the Nuttall Club 12 
Zoological Drawing 12 
Specimens in Comparative Osteology 18 
Price List of Human Skeletons 18 
Human Skeletons 18 
A New Catalogue. 13 
Taxidermy— Prices For Taxidermic Work... 14 
Taxidermy — A Delicate Task 14 
Man Boiled Down 14 
Custom Work in Taxidermy — Prices for 
Mounting Birds 14 
Cirripeds 15 
Vegetable Caterpillar 15 
Coral Fragments 15 
The Audubon Collection of American Birds. 16 
The Hoop Snake 16 
The Harvey Herbarium 16 
The American Shelving Co 16 
CATALOGUES 
of Natural History Specimens now on hand 
and for sale. 
These Catalogues are not mere price lists, but 
contain much interesting matter, and as they are 
intended to be free to our clients, the money paid for 
them will be credited on the first order. To teachers 
expressing an intent soon to purchase specimens, they 
will he sent gratis. 
Price. 
Minerals — 60 pages, .... $ 20 
Special Collection of Minerals— 40 pages,.. 10 
Lithology and Geology — 52 pages, 50 
Special Lithological Collection — 25 pages, . 10 
Collection of New York State Rocks — 44 
pages, 20 
Casts of Fossils— 228 pp. ; 284 wood cuts,.. 1 25 
School Series of Casts — 60 pages; 68 wood 
cuts, . - 20 
Academy Series of Casts — 68 pages; 180 
wood cuts, 20 
College Series of Casts — 144 pages, — 75 
Osteology— 64 pages, - 25 
Skins and Mounted Specimens — 80 pages,. 30 
North American Birds’ Eggs — 12 pages,... 10 
Foreign Birds’ Eggs — 12 pages, 10 
Invertebrates — 112 pages; 121 wood cuts, _. 50 
Human Skeletons and Anatomical Prepara- 
tions — 24 pages, 15 
Glass Models of Invertebrates — 24 pages. .. 10 
Restoration of Mammoth — 42 pages; illus- 
trated, 15 
Notice of Megatherium Cuvieri — 34 pages; 
Illustrated, . 50 
For any of the above, address 
Prof. HENRY A. WARD, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Letters concerning Minerals, Rocks and Fossils, 
Address to WARD & HOWELL. 
NEW SKIN CATALOGUE. 
We have now in press and shall next week 
issue a new Catalogue of Skins and Mounted 
Specimens , including Mammals, Birds, Reptiles 
and Fishes. This is much fuller than our for- 
mer catalogue, and gives the results of some ten 
years of careful and assiduous collecting from 
all parts of the world. We can offer to our 
clients a choice of representative forms through- 
out the entire range of vertebrate animals, giving 
opportunities for selecting systematic series such 
as have never before been possible in this coun- 
try. The catalogue also offers great advantages 
for the formation of faunal collections, the New 
Zealand, Australian and Eastern Asiatic fauna 
especially being very fully represented. The 
catalogue notes in most cases the price for skin 
and also for mounted specimen. 
The skins have largely been prepared by our 
own collectors, or handled over at the Establish- 
ment, so that their exact condition is known, and 
we can safely warrant them. They have in all 
cases' their skulls, and usually their leg bones; 
and all are most thoroughly poisoned against 
insects. The mounted specimens are prepared 
with great care and a strict adherence to natui . 
Price of catalogue, 30 cents. 
The colony under Lieutenant Greely, which 
established a camp on Lady Franklin bay, se- 
cured an unexpected supply of fresh meat 
for the winter on the very day the camp 
was established. A herd of innocent and too 
curious musk oxen approached the camp to make 
observations and twelve were killed by members 
of the party. This good fortune was very en- 
couraging to the expedition. 
This animal is without doubt the rarest of all 
American animals, and it is to be hoped that 
Lieutenant Greely preserved for scientific pur- 
poses the skins of all and the skeletons of the 
largest of theslaughtered oxen. Up to date we 
have found it an impossibility to procure speci- 
mens of this animal. 
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From the Eocene Tertiary of Egypt, we offer 
the Echinoderm Clypeaster Gizehensis, and the 
Crustacean Lobocarcinus Paulo- Wurtemburgensis , 
in well-preserved specimens. We have also for 
sale a splendid and perfect mummy coffin from 
Thebes. n 
These fossils, together with the mummies, are 
probably the most calm and contented inhabit- 
ants of Egypt just now. 
AUSTRALIA. 
Richard Whately. 
There is a place in distant seas 
Full of contrarities ; 
There, beasts have mallards, bills and legs, 
Have spurs like cocks, like hens lay eggs. 
There parrots walk upon the ground, 
And grass upon the trees is found ; 
On other trees, another wonder ! 
Leaves without upper sides or under. 
There pears you’ll scarce with hatchet cut ; 
Stones are outside the cherries put ; 
Swans are not white, but black as soot. 
There neither leaf, nor root, nor fruit 
Will any Christian palate suit, 
Unless in desperate need you’d fill ye 
With root of fern and stalk of lily." 
There missiles to far distance sent 
Come whizzing back from whence they went; 
There quadrupeds go on two feet, 
And yet few quadrupeds so fleet ; 
There birds, although they cannot fly, 
In swiftness with your greyhound vie. 
With equal wonder you may see 
The foxes fly from tree to tree ; 
And what they value most, so wary, 
These foxes in their pockets carry. 
There the voracious ewe-sheep crams 
Her paunch with flesh of tender lambs. 
Instead of beef, and bread, and broth, 
Men feast on many a roasted moth. 
The north winds scorch, but when the breeze is 
Full from the south, why then it freezes ; 
The sun when you face him turn ye, 
From right to left performs his journey. 
Now of what place could such strange' tales 
Be told with truth save New South Wales ? 
