THE NAUTILUS. 



VOL. X. JANUARY, 1897. No. 9 



TO CONCHOLOGISTS 



'The night is starry and cold, my friend, 

 And the New Year bright and bold, my friend, 

 Comes up to take his own." 



NINETY-SIX lias rolled by, aud with it THE NAUTILUS almost 

 completes another volume. We had hoped to tell you at this festal 

 season that conditions were becoming more favorable for the develop- 

 ment of the NAUTILUS in northern latitudes. The NAUTILUS is 

 all right in deep water, but the cold winter winds of adversity seem 

 to be too much for it, aud by April it is usually ashore and pretty 

 well broken up. The editors come to its rescue, and with paper 

 sails, on which there is a little printing, writing and a few figures, 

 start it again on its yearly voyage. But the editors are getting 

 tired of furnishing sails. We don't mind putting them on in fact, 

 we'll do all the work cheerfully, only give us the material. 



We are not asking for a gift, but merely suggesting to you that 

 to pay the price of a year's subscription, now due, is not only a sea- 

 sonable action on your part, but a positively meritorious one as well. 



Our editorial of last January seems to have been taken as a joke, 

 judging by the results in hard cash. We do assure you, friends, 

 "this is no joke." THE NAUTILUS is ashore now. Are you going to 

 help it out of the breakers ? Is the tenth voyage to be the last ? It 

 depends upon you. 



We wish you all a Happy New Year. 



H. A. P. & C. W. J. 



