The Nautilus. 



Vol. VII. JULY, 1893. No. 3 



TO CONCHOLOGISTS. 



The Editors of the Nautilus would like to impress upon Ameri- 

 can Conchologists that they are not conducting this paper for their 

 personal aggrandizement, as some persons seem to believe. The 

 work done has been purely a labor of love, for the promotion of 

 interest in cunchology ; and the Editors have not only put much 

 work into the enterprise, but, from first to last, a considerable num- 

 ber of large and shining Dollars, and this without expectation of 

 pecuniary return. 



We have looked forward to the unanimous support and encour- 

 agement of American Conchologists, for it is only by such support 

 that a paper of this character can be sustained. We know that 

 there are enough persons in the States interested in Conchology to 

 give this support, and to enable us to increase the size, the number 

 of illustrations and the interest of the articles as well. 



We depend upon you to aid us in bearing the expenses of publi- 

 cation. We depend upon you to send us notes and matter to 

 increase the interest and usefulness of the numbers from month to 

 month. The time we put on this work is time stolen from scientific 

 work of vastly greater magnitude, and it is only by the liberality of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Wagner Institute that 

 we are enabled to give the attention necessary to conduct a monthly 

 journal. 



We write thus because we know that we are not having the sup- 



