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THE NATUEALISTS’ COIMPANION. 
Entomologists should bear in mind 
that the season to “sugar” for moths has 
arrived. We captured a number ol fine 
specimens in a few evening’s work. 
Parties in need of Fine Job Printing 
at extremely low prices. We do all 
kinds of printing, including circulars, 
price-lists, tags, catalogues, letter and 
bill heads,envelopes, statements, papers, 
etc. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
We would sincerely recommend the 
Agassiz Association Hand-book, adver¬ 
tised in another column. It is hand¬ 
somely bound in cloth and contains in¬ 
structions for preserving, mounting, and 
studying the different objects of natural 
history, as well as the addresses of the 
different chapters and other useful knowl¬ 
edge indispensable to the naturalist. ’ 
Prof. C. H. Jenner, of this place, is 
at present engaged on a new work, “The 
l>ook of Nature as Read in the Light of 
Electricity,” which will shortly appear 
in print. The book will undoubtedly 
be a grand success with.so able and well 
informed a person as Professor Jenner 
as its author. He is also author of “The 
hiarth ; its Formation out of Chaotic 
Elements, etc.,” “New Princijiles of 
Vessel Propelling,” “New Theories of 
Planetary Propulsion,” &c. 
It is said that alligators’ eggs are es¬ 
teemed by the natives of the regions 
where those reptiles abound: Mr. Jos¬ 
eph, in his “History ofI'rinidad,” says 
that he found the eggs of the cayman 
very good. The female alligator lays 
from 120 to i6o eggs. They are about 
as large as the eggs of a tukey, and have 
a rough shell filled with a thick albumen. 
—Sunny South Oologist. 
Papers desiring to suspend can trairs- 
fer their business to ours on most favor¬ 
able terms. Write for iiarticulars. 
Archaeological Journalism. 
There is no journal, amateur we I'efer 
to, published wholly in the interest of 
archaeology. Why is it ? Simply be¬ 
cause there are not enough young col¬ 
lectors to suppoit such a publication. 
The Young Mineralogist and Anticiuari- 
an, as did the Hoosier Mineralogist and 
Archaeologist and the Museum, devoted 
at least one half of their space to arch¬ 
aeological news. Yet these three journ¬ 
als, priced respectfully 75c, 25c and 
v^i.50, have each failed during 1885-86. 
The Young Mineralogist and Anticpiari- 
an issued eleven numbers and retired in 
July. Then the Museum in September. 
Although there is a department entitled 
the Museum, edited by the former pub¬ 
lisher of that paper,in theAmericaiiAnti- 
quarian, yet that paper does not find its 
way, as it should, into the hands of 
young collectors. Then in January, 
1886, came the retirement of the Hoosier 
Mineralogist and Archiuologist. Twelve 
numbers weie issued of this paper. 
Each of the three above named publica¬ 
tions, as we said before, devoted half of 
their space to archaeological news, and 
it w^as always of the highest order. Each 
had among its contributors not only 
! amateurs, but the most eminent scien- 
' tists of the day, such as Dr. Brinton, 
I'Dr. Abbott, Kev. H. Hovey, Prof. 
Richard Owen, Mr. Binkley, and others 
of equal fame. The Southern Geologist 
! started out with an archaeological de¬ 
partment, but owing to the place it is 
endeavoring to, and is, filling in the 
South, as that of a journal devoted to its 
mineral resources, it is compelled to 
drop the department and only occasionly 
devote space to that subject. As there 
is at present no paper in our fold devot¬ 
ing any great amount of space to arch- 
