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DRILLED CEREMONIAL WEAPONS (^). 



and worthless shells which we would 

 not pick up at the sea side. He knew 

 no cause — no preventative and no 

 cure for it. He did not know at what 

 minute the pride of the collection — the 

 famous five hundred dollar Conus glor- 

 ia maris might be attacked. Prof. 

 Whitfield of the American Museum, 

 New York showed me some shells which 

 had been spotted by what he thought 

 might be a similar disease. I hope it will 

 spare their magnificient Argoiiauta 

 argo, which is without a peer. 



Excuse these rambling notes, but if 



I have succeeded in awakening any in- 

 ierest in the mind of any amateur col- 

 lector, in the favorites which have 

 been so great a source of pleasure to 

 me, I have not written in vain. 



Dr. T. H. Mc Coy, 



Chicago, Ills. 



Directions for Collecting and Pre- 

 serving Fish. 



By Tarleton H. Bean. 



I. Wash the fish thoroughly in 

 water, to remove the slime and dirt 

 that are almost invariably present up- 



