aciously. In raising their young the female lays
from five to six eggs in the dirt she has thrown out when digging
her tunnel. She buries them, and in a few weeks hatches out a
great number of the cutest little things you ever saw. They do not
stay with their mother, but go immediately to forming a little
burrow for themselves, which is from five to six feet deep. They
can live a long time without any food whatever. Their flesh is
also eatable, tasting somewhat like chicken. May I write again?

HARRY R. WHITCOMB.
UMATILLA, FLA.

Certainly you may write again.

Blackberries Nearly the Year Round.

Down here we have a great variety of fruit. We have blackberries
nearly all the year round. They commence in March and last until
about the end of November. All are what we call wild in the
States. Indians peddle them in big baskets on their backs. They
are a great deal smaller than yours, and can only be eaten when
cooked. I would like to exchange Mexican postage and revenue
stamps with some Knights of the Round Table.

ROBERT L. MILLER, JUN.
P. O. Box 319, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.

Mounting Paper Money.

A California member asks how to fix paper money so that it may be
examined without having to take it out of envelopes each time. There are
two ways of mounting your specimens. The first and most difficult is to
take very stiff paper and make a leaf with an opening of the exact size,
like the opening in a photograph album leaf. Mucilage the tiniest edge
all around, and press till thoroughly dry.

The other way is to cover the four corners, but this prevents the back
from being seen. An ideal way would be to have two specimens--one to
mount one side front, the other the other side. Rare manuscripts are
mounted according to the first method, and then the heavy albumlike
leaves are bound into a book.

Want Corner.

Do you live in Chateaugay, N. Y.? Please favor Blanche French, West
Dedham, Mass., with some account of the place, its size, location, and
any interesting information. She will be most grateful. Hubert B.
Stephens is the new secretary of the Bollman Chapter, and his address is
Box 274, Sharpsburg, Pa. It is a corresponding, stamp, and botany club
with ten-cent fee and five-cent dues. Of course it wants to hear from
anybody interested. S. J. Tucker, 2818 Mary Street, Pittsburg, Pa.,
wants to find old copies of _