He N Sericus. 
VOL. VII. JULY, 1893. No.3 
TO CONCHOLOGISTS. 
The Editors of the Nauritus would like to impress upon Ameri- 
ean 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- 
