BOTANICAL SPECIMENS, AND SHELLS. 



G. Dixon, begs to inform his friends that he still continues to 

 supply good specimens of Flowering Plants, in sets of 100 to 1000 

 species: — Ferns, 60 species; Mosses, 250; Hepaticae, 50; Lichens, 250; 

 Fungi, 200; Algae, 60; and Zoophytes, 40 species. He also has 

 always on hand a large stock of Marine, Land, and Fresh- water 

 Shells. The above will be all warranted in good preservation and 

 true to name, with dates, localities, &c., »&c. 



11^^ Parties wishing to possess Grasses, Carexes, Salixes, or Rubi, 

 can be supplied with* sets of these critical families detached from 

 the Flowering Plants. 



Further particulars will be forioarded on Application by letter to 

 George Dixon, Superintendent of the North of England Agricultural 

 School, Great Ayton, near Stokesley, Yorkshire. 



TO ENTOMOLOGISTS, DEALERS, AND OTHERS. 



Parties desiring to supply their cabinets with specimens of the new 

 British Insect, Zygcena Minos, are requested to state how many 

 specimens, and at what rate of price, they would wish to be reserved 

 for them from a lot expected to be captured in Ireland this summer. 

 Address A B C D, care of Messieurs Groombridge, Paternoster Row, 

 London. 



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