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TJiO Maturalwts’ Compwiiion. 
Published Monthly in the interest of the difierent 
branches of Natural History. 
Subscription Price, 
Hinkle Copy One Year.35 cents 
Two Copies “ 60 
Foreign Countries One Year .:.50 “ 
Sample Copy . 05 “ 
Remit by Postal Note, Money Order, Registered 
Letter, or New Yoik Draft Postage stamps rejected. 
We request all of our readers to send us a description of their 
Collecting Excursions, their Finds,or any items they may think 
will be of interest to the readers of the C0.1IPAM0N. 
CHARLES P. GUELF, 
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 
Brockport, New York, U. S. A. 
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, 
H. F .Thompson, Indianapolis, Ind. 
RANDOM NOTES. 
The Southern Geologist has sus|)end- 
ed publication. 
I'he Naturalists’ Companion and 
the Young Naturalist’s Journal both 
one year for only 50 cents. 
P. T. Barniim offers $ 20,000 for the 
skin of a sea serpent such as was believed 
to have been seen off Rockport, Maine. 
. G. Tahnadge, Hartford, Conn., 
has our sincere thanks for a co])y of 
“Birch Bark from the Adirondacks.” 
We were somewhat delayed in issuing 
this number by our paper failing to come 
to hand piomptly. 
G. D. Story, Carterville, Mo., has 
our thanks for a fine specimen of the 
mineral sphalerite. 
Unless some of our advertisers begin 
to settle 11 ]) soon, we shall be obliged to 
])lace the bills in a lawyer’s hands for 
collection. 
Parties desiring to secure a fine spec¬ 
imen for their cabinet cannot do better 
than purchase one of those swoid fish 
swords of A. C. Randall. 
In overhauling onr sanctum recently, 
we discovered several copies of No. i, 
Vol. I, which we will sell at five cents 
each. 
The fall of a meteor on ice was lately 
witnessed on the coast of Norway, a hole 
a foot and a half in diameter being 
made through eight inches of ice. 
Parties in want of fine specimens at 
extremely low rates should leview the 
advertisement of A. N. Fuller, of Law¬ 
rence, Kansas, on another page. 
Students of archaeology should give 
some attention to mythology. They 
will find that study one of great interest, 
and there fs ever a field of wide research 
open. 
Publishers of scientific magazines will 
please send two copies of their journals 
—one to this office and one to our as¬ 
sociate editor—and we will return the 
compliment. 
Circumstances renders it impossible 
to i{ive our readers a historv of our 
camping excursion, as we formerly in¬ 
tended. Sufficient it is to say that we 
enjoyed ourselves immensely, and re¬ 
turned to onr sanctum looking as brown 
as Indians. 
