Vol. II, No. 2. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, APRIL 1, 1883. 
Price, 50 cents per Year. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
CATALOGUES 
THE ZOOLOGISTS WOOING. 
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Catalogues of Natural History Specimens, 
Taffy, 
The Zoologist’s Wooing 
Aboriginal Man, 
Rats, 
J apanese Batracliia and Fishes, 
Editorial, 
Notes, 
An Ancient Mineralogist, 
Mineralogy : — New Minerals, 
“ — Mr. Howell in Europe, 
Are we drying up? 
Geology, 
Borax 
Mineral Collections, 
Meteorites, 
Stibnites, 
Palaeontology, 
Archaeology and Ethnology, 
Casts of Fossils, 
Heloderma suspectum, 
The London Fishery Exhibition 
How to skin Turtles, 
Specimens from Japan, 
Dental abnormalities, 
Our group of Ornithorhynchus, 
Echidnocercus (Litliodes) cibarius, 
United States’ National Museum’s Group of 
Fish Eating Birds, 
Steam’s New England Bird Life 
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Darwin 11 
Specimens in comparative Osteology, 12 
The Taxidermists’ Exhibition, 13 
Letter from Dr. Coues, 13 
Taxidermy: The principles laid down, 14 
On unreason in clients, 14 
The misinformed Naturalist, 15 
An unappreciated triumph, 15 
Revolution in Taxidermy, 10 
Anatomical Technology, 10 
S. E. Cassino & Co., 10 
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 
w ill be sent gratis. 
Price. 
Minerals — 60 pages, $ 20 
Special Collection of Minerals — 40 pages, 10 
Lithology and Geology — 52 pages, 20 
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; 130 
wood cuts, 20 
College Series of Casts — 144 pages, 75 
Osteology — 64 pages, . _ , 25 
Skins and Mounted Specimens — 142 pages, 30 
North American Birds’ Eggs — 12 pages, 10 
Foreign Birds’ Eggs — 14 pages, 10 
Invertebrates — li2 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. 
TAFFY. 
Little Alice has made herself so useful in wrap- 
ping our Bulletins for us, that in a careless 
moment of gratitude we promised that we would 
print an article which she wished to write for 
the Bulletin. 
Here it is verbatim , bereft only of the curious 
chirograpliy — all printed out in capitals — in 
which she had it constructed. Her story is deli- 
cately flattering to us all. 
THE BOY WHO WANTED A BLANK BOOK. 
There w T as once a boy who wanted a blank 
book. So his father told him if he would work 
and earn it he could have it. He had his choice 
of where he was to work, from the tobacco store 
up to the great Ward’s Natural Science Estab- 
lishment. Of course he chose Ward’s Natural 
Science Establishment where he could get good 
pay and enjoy himself too. We think he made a 
■ good choice. Alice Mabel Ward. 
When first I saw you, Eland deer, 
My Hart it did repine ; 
Because I Gnu how good you were, 
And wished that you Ermine. 
When I your Tapir fingers pressed, 
Upon that eve in May, 
The glance you gave me Seal-ed my fate 
And I’m still yours to-day. 
I’ll never break Ape art the Lynx 
That bind my Hart to thine, 
Till I shall Lion my last couch 
And in my grave recline. 
Gaze, Eland deer, upon me now ! 
(That’s Civet pleases you), 
One glance from your bright eyes will light 
This Mole-dring fire anew. 
And if it is for Porcupine, 
Though it should ruin me, 
I’ll bring as many Hamster you 
As one could wish to see. 
But, then, of course, weak Antelope, 
For that would be a Boar , 
But we can stay right here Rat home, 
And I’ll never leave you Mohr. 
ABORIGINAL MAN. 
“ The aboriginal man in geology, is not an en- 
gaging figure. We are very glad that he ate his 
snails and fishes and marrow-bones out of our 
sight and hearing, and that his doleful experiences 
were got through with so very long ago. They 
combed his mane, they pared his nails, cut off his 
tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made 
him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his 
sad story for the compassion or the repudiation of 
descendants, who are all but unanimous to disown 
him.” Copied from? 
RATS. 
F. Yon Fischer in Zoologische Garten, calculates 
the possible progeny of one pair of Rats in ten 
years, to be 4S, 319, 698, 843, 030, 344, 720 indi- 
viduals. 
JAPANESE BATRACHIA AND FISHES. 
In our late Japanese arrival, noticed further 
on, were several specimens of Sieboldia maxima — 
the famous Giant Salamander, a description and 
figure of which Prof. Ward gave in No. 4 of vol. 
1st of our Bulletin. 
This, the largest of all living Batracliia known 
to science, has been known to attain a length of 
five and a half feet, and to live to the age of a 
full century. 
Among Fishes there were half a dozen Sharks, 
large and small, besides the celebrated and inter- 
esting genus Gestraeion (Port Jackson Shark), the 
more interesting because it has here strayed so far 
from its Australian home. Some ovoviviparous 
Fishes of the Cottooid type, and some interesting 
Crabs and Lobsters completed this invoice of most 
rare and valuable specimens from Japan. 
