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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 bearings. 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. 
Tuer Navriwuvs 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 NauTi.us into deep water. The subscription 
price is a trifling amount and surely we receive far more in return. 
I for one shall miss the Naurivus 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. BR: 
Oakland, Cal., 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 oceur- 
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 
Cypreide, 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. 
