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THE NATURAL SCIENCE JOURNAL. 
Announcement* 
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With the next issue we shall commence 
a new department, that of Ornithology 
and Oology, to be conducted by Prof. 
AV. A. Stearns of Atlanta, Georgia. 
This will greatly enhance the value of 
the JouuNAL, although the subscription 
price will remain the same. 
Those interested in this department 
will be highly gratified to leaim that we 
have secured the services of Prof. Stearns 
as editor, and they may be assured that 
the department will be conducted in a 
thoroughly interesting and scientihc 
inanner. 
We also hope to secure the services of 
a well-known botanist, with whom we 
are corresponding, to take charge of 
that department. 
AV^e shall add a number of new fea¬ 
tures, including a literary review, a 
question box to which correspondents 
are now invited to send questions; an 
exchange and want department for which 
notices will be free to subscribers, and 
should be sent in now; and several other 
new features. 
AA^e shall try to make each issue better 
than the former, and want your hearty 
cooperation. Send in your subscriptiou 
now! 
ATLANTIC SCIENTIFIC BUPEAU, 
New Bedfokd, Mass. 
Du. John Fuyeu of the department of 
Oriental languages at Berkeley, in Cali¬ 
fornia, has come into possession of a 
volume of the famous encyclopaedia 
published in China in 177G and contain¬ 
ing at that time 5,000 volumes, which 
were indexed in 20 volumes. The book 
is known as the “ Tu-schuchi-Ch’eng,” 
and is one of the largest literary works 
ever produced in the world. The sub¬ 
jects treated comprise the entire sum of 
knowledge possessed in China, classified 
under the six heads of astronomy, and 
mathematics, physical and political geog¬ 
raphy, human relationship, science and 
inanimate nature, metaphysics and doc¬ 
trinal philosophy and political economy. 
The walking stick which Queen A-'ic- 
toria has found it necessary to use 
during the last few years is a staff of 
oak, originally made for and presented 
to Charles II. by a citizen of ATorcester. 
ATlien the Queen first used it, it had only 
a plain gold top, but in after years 
there was added a queer little Indian 
idol, which formed part of the booty of 
Seringapatam. 
J. TMieED, 
KIPEEY, BROWN CO., OHIO, 
A fine lot of Indian Relics for sale at very- 
low prices. 
J. 11. liOLMEA 
DUNEDIN, FLORIDA. 
I am constantly engaged in the systematic collec¬ 
tion of 
Shells, Marine Curios, and Gulf Coast 
Specimens. 
To those wishing to buy in quantity, I can offer 
extreinely low rates. Write for prices. 
