Dodson Bird Houses 
Joseph H. Dodson, Kankakee, Illinois 
Know Our Native Birds 
As an aid to knowing them, I have never found anything to equal “ Nature 
Neighbors. ” 
“Nature Neighbors” is a beautiful set of books in 11 volumes, containing 648 
full-page, colored plates, illustrating over 1,500 of Nature specimens in their natural 
colors, being nearly twice the number of illustrations in any other work on this 
subject. To look at these pictures alone is almost a course in natural history. 
The greatest living naturalists have contributed to the terse, definite descrip¬ 
tions written in simple language so that everyone can understand it. 
“Nature Neighbors” is the best illustrated work obtainable in natural colors 
upon the subjects of Birds, Plants, Animals and Minerals of North America. 
It took eight years at enormous expense to collect these subjects, pose them 
and make the plates. Much of this work was done under the personal supervision 
of Dr. William Kerr Higley, President of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. No 
other set of color plates was ever made which approaches this set in the point of 
number, completeness and accuracy of pictures. They are positively the best 
and most complete set of color plates obtainable upon the subjects of Birds, 
Plants, Animals and Minerals of North America, and the complete 648 plates 
containing over fifteen hundred nature specimens are all in “Nature Neighbors. ” 
There are three hundred ninety-six bird plates, containing nearly six hundred 
bird, nest and egg specimens—378 different birds; 101 plant plates, containing 
nearly 400 plant specimens; 120 animal plates, containing nearly 400 animal 
specimens; 31 mineral plates, containing about 200 mineral specimens. 
In my own library I have most every book published on the subject of birds, 
and I value my set of “Nature Neighbors” above them all; and if I could not 
obtain another set, I would not part with them at any price. 
It is because I know the value of these books that f have purchased the entire 
edition, so that I can offer them to my bird-loving friends at a price that will put 
these books within the reach of all. While these books are low in price, they are 
the finest obtainable. 
