F.w.iirimERKu 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 1, 1886. 
THE HALO. 
W. G. Gannett, in Unity. 
“Our London dealer in birds, received, when 
the fashion was at its height, a single consign- 
ment of thirty-two thousand dead humming- 
birds; and another received at another time 
thirty thousand aquatic birds, and three hundred 
thousand pairs of wings.” 
Think what a price to pay, 
Faces so bright and gay, 
Just for a hat! 
Flowers unvisited, mornings unsung, 
Sea-ranges bare of the wings that o’erswung,— 
Bared just for that ! 
Think of the others, too, 
Others and mothers, too, 
Bright-eyes in hat ! 
Hear you no mother-groan floating in air, 
Hear you no little moan,— birdlings’ despair,— 
Somewhere, for that ? 
Caught ’mid some mother work, 
Torn by a hunter Turk, 
Just for your hat ! 
Plenty of mother hearts yet in the world : 
All the more wings to tear, carefully twirled,— 
Women want that ! 
Oh, but the shame of it, 
Oh, but the blame of it, 
Price of a hat ! 
Just for a jauntiness brightening the street ! 
This is your halo, O faces so sweet,— 
Death : and for that ! 
SKELETONS OF RACES. 
Each is mounted on a Black Walnut pedestal 
and is supported by sliding clamps upon a pol- 
ished brass rod. The skulls are not bored or 
sawn, and can easily be removed for examination. 
Chinese California. 
Black Foot Indian North-West Territory. 
Bush Woman Australia. 
Hottentot. South Africa. 
GODDESS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
In the national museum at Washington, is a 
well preserved fragment of a mosaic from the 
ruined temple of Astarte at Carthage. This 
goddess may perhaps be called the patron deity 
of museums since, one of the earliest, possibly 
the earliest, of reference to the preservation of 
specimens of natural history is connected with 
her name, and with a still more ancient temple 
dedicated to her. When Hanno the Carthaginian 
sailed down the coast of Africa somewhere about 
500 before Christ, he discovered and killed cer- 
tain large apes, supposed to have been Gorillas. 
According to the records of his voyage these 
were flayed, the skins brought back to Carthage, 
and there deposited in the temple of Astarte. 
Here they remained for some 350 years, or until 
the city was captured by the Romans. Evident- 
ly the old Carthaginian taxidermists must have 
used an excellent article of arsenical soap. 
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 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, 30 
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 
Shells — 120 pages; 86 cuts, 30 
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. 
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SKULLS OF RACES. 
Most of the following skulls are in good con- 
dition. The exact state and price of any par- 
ticular skull will be furnished upon application. 
Caffer.. — South Africa. 
Cheyenne Nebraska. 
Delaware .Kansas. 
Digger California. 
Huron _Prov. of Ontario. 
Malay. Malay Peninsula. 
Mallicollan Mallicollo, New Hebrides. 
Maori ..New Zealand. 
New Irelander ... .New Ireland. 
Pawnee ..Nebraska, 
Sioux Nebraska. 
For casts of skulls of races (37 in all), also 
skulls in sections, disarticulate, etc. ; see Catalogue 
of Human Skeletons and Anatomical Prepara- 
tions. 
TO MR. CROWLEY 
The little Chimpanzee in Central Park. 
Exotic exile from some Af ric isle, 
(x being- algebraic for unknown,) 
What fetish of the Congo or the Nile 
Sent you, poor devil, to this temperate zone? 
I wonder were you sea-sick on your trip, 
To the discomfort of some mate below, 
And if you damned both passengers and ship 
As forcibly as I did years ago. 
What were your first impressions when you viewed 
This Empire City of the stripes and stars? 
What are they now? For— pardon if I’m rude— 
Opinions always change behind the bars. 
And in the tailless mob that daily roars 
With tropic breath around your little cage. 
Have you seen distant relatives of yours, 
And have you yet perceived your lineage? 
Regard them closely, monkey, 4 and you’ll see 
Each antic of your hylobatic zones. 
Like you they chatter, envy, quarrel, flee, 
Fret, whimper, cringe, and then go “hunting 
bones.” 
But, you unlike, they’re'full of venomed greeds 
And passions. ^Pshawf I’m sick of all their strife, 
’Tis rank injustice to compare their deeds 
With your serene and.philosophic life. 
Do visions of thy simian love return 
Across the convolutions'of thy brain? 
Do all the fibres of thy being burn 
When thou recallest all the charms again 
Of pallid golden nostrils, pinkish eyes, 
Sharp-pointed ears, of vast and spreading feet, 
Of hairy mouth and tail of awful size— 
A simian dream of loveliness complete? 
And when thou diest, Crowley, wilt thou share 
The orthodox apparel and the horn? 
With dead chimpanzees wilt thou cleave the air 
And fill with monkey music the last morn? 
And when fatigued by sport— with folded wing— 
Celestial slumber falling on thine eyes— 
With tail curled round the golden bar, wilt swing 
Head downward in the gates of Paradise? 
W. E. S. F., in Puck. 
The Bishop of Melbourne has ((ordered prayers 
to be offered that rabbits may not become 
mothers, all endeavors to exterminate them hav- 
ing proved fruitless. 
