. The Hoosier naturalist . we have thecash to supply, and nil we .isk in return I is, that once every three months, youwrite us a short letter, explaining whatprogress you have made in your favoritestudy and describing all or a few of thespecimens you had collected and identi-fied, or a description of some collectingtrip that you thought would be of ii mer-est to the readers of this paper/ A friendrecently said if we were to expend $100per issue, for illustrations alone, andstarting with 5,000 readers, not morethan half of them would write the fourletters. About one-third of our old sub-scribe
. The Hoosier naturalist . we have thecash to supply, and nil we .isk in return I is, that once every three months, youwrite us a short letter, explaining whatprogress you have made in your favoritestudy and describing all or a few of thespecimens you had collected and identi-fied, or a description of some collectingtrip that you thought would be of ii mer-est to the readers of this paper/ A friendrecently said if we were to expend $100per issue, for illustrations alone, andstarting with 5,000 readers, not morethan half of them would write the fourletters. About one-third of our old sub-scribers have renewed for this it not for many commendatory let-ters we would think our efforts were invain, and that the Hoosier Naturalistwas not worth the trifle asked for , il the Ornithologist and Oologist. amuch older paper, and circulating amongwealthier patrons, complains of a lack ofsupport, we are not surprised at thequantity of seed it is necessary to sowin this direction, to reap even a Salt as a Preservative. In 1878, Prof. Alph. de (landolle. ex-hibited to a Natural History Society atGeneva, a jar containing fruits of |thecoffee before maturity inMexico, preserved in a liqu d, which, onbeing analyzed, proved to be >alt water. Oandolle had filled and hermeticallysealed the jar fifty years before. The coffee beans were in a perfectstate of preservation. It was claimed that the liquid wasboiled before pouring into the jar. Commenting on the above, a promi-nent scientific journal, of that (Lte. says:•This experiment may prove a valuablehint to curators of natural history andmedical museums as to the substitutionof salt water for alcohol (the inconven- THE HOOSIEE NATURALIST. iei ce of which every one know?) for thep eservation of organic specimens. Can any of the Hoosier Naturalistsreaders enlighten us as to whether saltfor museum purposes has ever proven|ractical? If so. under what condi-tions? Preserve Fish. To pres
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