of the _=Birds=_ or _=Mammals=_ of your county or state, or enrich a present collection by the addition of some well mounted specimens? Costs so much? Perhaps so, but WRITE TO ME FOR PRICES and you will be surprised how little such a collection will cost after all. Think of the interest that will be awakened in your school in the _STUDY OF NATURE_ to reward you for trouble and outlay. I mount to order [Illustration: Bird] _BIRDS, MAMMALS, FISH and REPTILES_ and solicit your patronage. If you are interested, you should not lose an opportunity to examine the novel collection of Ohio birds, prepared by myself, in the museum of Zoology, Ohio State University. _TAUGHT BY MAIL._—I give instructions in the Art of Taxidermy, personally, or BY MAIL. You can learn to collect and prepare your own birds, thus reducing the cost of a collection to a minimum. For prices and circulars, address NATURALIST—THOMAS M. EARL—TAXIDERMIST Cor. Naghten and Ninth Sts., COLUMBUS, OHIO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 4. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. 5. Denoted superscripts by a caret before a single superscript character.