ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, JANUARY 1, 1884. Price, 50 cents per Year. 
Vol. Ill, No. 1. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Pag - e. 
Catalogue of Natural History Specimens 1 
Catalogue of North American Bird’s Eggs... 1 
The Mermaid and Octopus 1 
Editorial Notes 2 
The Government as a Publishing House 2 
A Scientific Thief 2 
Mallet Collection of Minerals 3 
Elba Minerals, 3 
Meteorites 3 
Mineralogy . 3 
Atlantosaurus . . 4 
Brontosaurus 4 
Mineral Collections 4 
Geology 5 
Geological Charts and Pictures 5 
Birth and Death of Worlds 5 
Archaeology and Ethnology 5 
Casts of Antiquities 5 
Paleontology 6 
Casts of Fossils. . 6 
Restoration of Fossil Reptiles 6 
Kansas Cretaceous Fossils 6 
Oregon Mammoth 6 
The Flying Fox of Australia 7 
An Able-bodied Insect 7 
Notes 7 
Not Just Now 7 
Miss Brown Finds Some Quartz Crystals 7 
Views of the Ward Natural Science Establish- 
ment „ 8-9 
Musk Ox 10 
Steller’s Sea Lion 11 
Walrus Hunting 12 
Specimens in Comparative Osteology, 13 
Price List of Human Skeletons.. 13 
A New Catalogue 13 
Human Skeletons 13 
Kamchatka Officials . . _ 14 
Johnny’s Monkey 14 
Milwaukee City Museum 15 
Group of Flamingoes 15 
An Odd Dog 16 
Our Prices 16 
We Get Two Moose 16 
A Propos of Nothing 16 
The Harvey Herbarium 16 
The Auk 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, 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 — 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. 
CATALOGUE OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS’ 
EGGS FOR 1884. 
As we go to press our patrons will be receiving 
our new Catalogue of North American Birds’ Eggs 
for 1884. It will be seen that a considerably larger 
proportion of families are represented in this cata- 
logue than in the previous one, and by a much 
greater number of species. In fact, no pains 
have been spared in gathering in material ; every 
part of the continent has be^n laid under contri- 
bution that we might place before our patrons 
the most complete series ever offered, of North 
American Eggs. This catalogue includes only 
such species as were on hand at the time of its 
issue, and the stock will be steadily enlarged. 
Correspondence has become so extensive that we 
are likely to procure anything that is attainable, 
and we would request from Odlogists lists of 
their special desiderata. 
Of most species enumerated, we can furnish 
both single eggs and sets; special pains have 
been taken to secure sets, to keep pace with the 
steadily increasing demand in this direction; 
with many we can supply also the nest, and in 
all cases full and accurate data. It is needless 
to say that only neatly prepared and carefully 
identified eggs are offered. 
Eggs will be securely packed in tin or wooden 
boxes, and shipped by mail or express, prepaid. 
THE MERMAID AND THE OCTOPUS. 
There was a mermaid beneath the sea. 
By her papa was kept in a locked abyss — 
Yet in spite of the cruel old merman, she 
Fell deeply in love with an octopus — 
A slimy, grimy octopus! 
A green, unrhymy octopus! 
The son of a terrible cuttle-fish ! 
A quivering, shivering octopus. 
He’d savage eyes and dreadful strength 
In his horrid beak that cocked up was — 
And tentacles thirty feet in length 
Surrounded this wonderful octopus ! 
This mighty, bitey octopus! 
This snappish, fighty octopus! 
The son of a terrible cuttle-fish! 
A quivering, shivering octopus! 
There wriggled in an electric eel — 
On the mermaid’s lip he shocked a buss! 
Said she: “ The magnetic thrill I feel, 
But you’d better look out for my octopus! 
He’s a frightful, spiteful octopus! 
Yet a most delightful octopus! 
The son of a terrible cuttle-fish! 
A quivering, shivering octopus! 
Quoth she to her nurse, an old mermaid, 
“ Although the old man locked up us, 
A way I know, and I'm not afraid 
To escape to my darling octopus! 
My beautiful, dutiful octopus! 
And a very suitable octopus! 
The son of a terrible cuttle fish! 
A quivering, shivering octopus! 
She called a cyclone, that in Broadway 
I’m certain would surely have knocked a bus, 
But it only carried her, sulky, away, 
So she might elope with the octopus! 
“ Audacious, rapacious octopus!” 
Cried the nurse. “Oh, good gracious ! octopus ! 
A quivering, shivering octopus!” 
And now in their weedy coral bed 
They lie in dulcissimis noctibus — 
At night, she’s embraced, and in daytime fed 
By the numerous arms of her octopus! 
A curious, furious octopus ! 
A quite injurious octopus! 
The son of a terrible cuttle-fish ! 
A quivering, shivering octopus! 
