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A POPULAR ILLUSTRATED

Monthly Magazine of Natural History,

PUBLISHED BY THE

ESSEX INSTITUTE, SALEM, MASS. Terms: $3.00 a year. Single numbers 25 cents.

From the appreciative notices of the press, and letters received from eminent teachers and practical scientific men, as well as persons of general culture, the Editors feel assured that the publication of the AMERICAN NATURALIST, which covers a new field in this country, will prove a decided success. The circulation of the first number of the NATURALIST has already reached two thousand during the first month of its existence, and is rapidly increasing, showing the demand for a popular Natural History Journal adapted both for family reading, and as a medium of interchange between all lovers of Nature, who already can be counted by thousands in our country. For the small subscription price of $3.00 we give a handsomely printed yearly volume of OVER SIX HUNDRED pages, with upwards of FIFTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS AND MANY WOOD-CUTS, mainly illustrating the Animals, Plants and Geology of our Country. It thus affords a rich fund of facts about the Haunts and Habits of the Inhabitants of our Fields, Woodlands and Waters; with timely warnings of the attack of Animals injurious to crops, and prac tical hints regarding Fish culture and Bee keeping, thus embodying facts of interest to every Farmer, Physician and Teacher, and all others wishing to keep informed of the latest discoveries in Natural History.

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FRENCH

READER,

OR

Classic Models of Practical French Conversation,

FROM THE PLAYS OF THE BEST FRENCH AUTHORS OF THE DAY;
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1 Vol., comprising 5 Plays, Price, $1.25.

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