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this to happen ? We have the cheerful assurance of the editors that 

 they are willing to do their part, but it remains for us to do ours.. 

 No steam engine can be run without steam, no matter how faithfully 

 the engineer may polish the metal work and oil the bearing?. And 

 let me add that no journal can maintain its existence without the 

 expenditure of hard cash, as well as careful thought and labor on 

 the part of the editors. To be sure, in the present instance the cash 

 is the smaller part of the outlay, but some one must furnish it. 



THE NAUTILUS is the only journal in the country devoted wholly 

 to the interests of conchologists, and whose columns are open to our 

 notes and exchanges. It rests with us, the conchologists of the 

 country, to help the NAUTILUS into deep water. The subscription 

 price is a trifling amount and surely we receive far more in return. 

 I for one shall miss the NAUTILUS if it is discontinued and I know 

 that others will. Let us pay up if we have not already done so and. 

 get our friends to subscribe as well. W. J. R. 



Oakland, Cat., Jan. 6, 1897. 



IN MEMORIAM JOHN H. CAMPBELL. 



It is with feelings of regret and sorrow that we record the death 

 of our late fellow conchologist Mr. John H. Campbell, which occur- 

 red on January 15th. As is known to most of our readers, Mr. 

 Campbell was the first President of the American Association of 

 Conchologists, and it was mainly owing to his energetic nature that 

 the Association, during the time of his activity, exercised a wide in- 

 fluence and stimulated many naturalists to more earnest study of 

 conchological subjects. 



For several years Mr. Campbell made a special study of the 

 Cii/inridie, and his collection of these ocean gems is doubtless the 

 largest and finest in America. 



Mr. Campbell was born in Philadelphia, March 31st, 1847, grad- 

 uated from the Central High School in Feb., 1864, and admitted to 

 the Philadelphia Bar, April 4th, 1868. He was elected a delegate 

 at large to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention and served 

 throughout the sessions of that body in 1872-3. In 1873 he became 

 identified with the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, and for eleven 

 years was the honored President of the Philadelphia branch of that 

 organization. When the magnificent fountain erected by the society, 

 largely through his efforts, was unveiled in Fairmount Park, July 

 4th, 1877, it was he who made the presentation address. 



