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THE NATURALISTS’ COMPANION. 
TO OUR READERS, 
Tiie editor, in order to obtain, a 
large circulation for his Companion, 
offers the following inducement: 
To any person sending us 50 cents 
for one year’s subscription to the 
Companion, and five cents extra to 
pay postage, we will send any one 
ot the following specimens: 
Calcite, Satin Spar, Fossil Crin- 
oid Stems, Fossil Coral,House Can¬ 
ary’s Egg, Egg of Purple Grackle, 
Egg of Barn Swallow or Fos¬ 
sil Shells. 
To the person sending us the larg¬ 
est number of subscriptions before 
September 1, 1885, we will give the 
same prizes offered for the solution 
of the puzzle on page 14, besides 
their regular commission. 
Our object in publishing this pa¬ 
per is to issue a Monthly on all the 
different branches ol NaturalHistory 
and to this end we desire all persons 
interested in the science to contri¬ 
bute liberally to these columns items 
on Geology, Mineralogy, Zoology, 
Entomology, Oology, Botany, Con- 
chology. Astronomy, Taxidermy, 
Ornithology, or ether articles relat¬ 
ing to Natural History. 
We will send the Companion one 
year to those who subscribe before 
August 10,1885, on receipt of 40 cts. 
We desire our readers to send us 
items about their collecting excurs¬ 
ions or on any subject they think 
will be of interest to the readers, 
CLUBBING. 
To persons intending to solicit 
subscriptions for the Companion. 
We will allow you a cash commis¬ 
sion of 20 cents for each subscriber 
you will obtain. Therefore, if you 
get ten subscribers per day, you 
would make twelve dollars per week. 
To be entithid to the above com¬ 
mission, you must, if not already a 
subscriber,send in your subscription 
with the first order. No commis¬ 
sion can he allow'ed on your own 
subscription. For further particu¬ 
lars and information address, 
CHARLES P. GUELF, 
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 
Brockport, N. Y. 
The cover on our next issue will 
be profusely illustrated with designs 
cf animal and bird life, and will 
probably be printed on colored pa¬ 
per, If nothing intervens,our next 
issue will be simply grand. 
The oldest, and at the same time 
the thickest tree in the world, so far 
as is known, is a chestnut near the 
foot of Mount Etna. It is hollow, 
and large enough to admit two car¬ 
riages driving abreast. The circum¬ 
ference of the main trunk is 212 feet. 
Notice^fAncient Trees”on page 9. 
A new fish, the cherna, belonging 
to the halibut family, has made its 
appearance in the Gulf of Mexico. 
There is a bird roost at lake Gen¬ 
try, in Brevard county, Fla., cover¬ 
ing a tract of eighty acres.in which, 
it is estimated, over 7,000,000 birds 
gather every season. It has been a 
resting place from time immemorial. 
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