THE I^ATUEALISTS’ COMPAlSriOE'. 
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cure cash purchasets.—Ed. 
C. P. Guelf, Brockport, N. Y., 
two good books, “Lawrence’s Ad¬ 
ventures” and “Young Trail Hunt¬ 
ers,” tor the best ofier of scientific 
books, instruments or specimens 
notin my collection. Will exchange 
the Companion for one year or natu¬ 
ral history specimens for the above. 
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I as we hg ve for the month of Septem- 
^ her. Just look at our premiums! 
Anthricite is,geologically,the old¬ 
est form of coal. 
The Agassiz Journal is doing a 
noble work in its endeavors to rid 
the collecting community of its 
numerous great frauds. The Aug¬ 
ust number of the Journal has ex¬ 
posed an astonishing number of old 
frauds. Had we the space we would 
like to publish some of them; but, 
as we have not, we will keep our 
weather eye open and see that none 
of their advertisements enter our 
columns. Woe to the fraud that 
comes pnder the gaze of our terri¬ 
ble eye, for we will fall on him 
like a thousand of brick, and some 
one will have to pass the hat along 
the ranks of amateur journalism to 
pay the funeral expences. 
The largest oleander in Forida,or 
probably anywhere else, is on Mr. 
Packwood’s place at Spanish Town. 
It covers a space of ground thirty- 
six feet in diameter; from the ground 
to the topmost limb is twenty-five 
feet; at the surface of the ground 
the trunk is divided into twenty or 
twenty-five separate stems, the 
group being at least five feet 
through, and one single stem is, by 
actual measurement, fourteen inches 
thick. 
A dispatch from MePumey, Tex¬ 
as, says : A farmer living six miles 
west of here discovered an immense 
fossil, the remains of a carnivorous 
mammal, which scientific men pro¬ 
nounce to be the remains of an ich¬ 
thyosaurus. In length it is 12 feet, 
of which the head measures four. 
The jaws, teeth, tongue, ribs and 
vertebra are petrified.— Daily Item. 
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