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THE - CONCHOLOGISTS’ : EXCIIANGE 
A fine new Volu¢a (Gouldiana, n. s.), from the 
same region reaches two or three inches in 
length, is covered with fine revolving lines, re- 
sembles V. /unonia in shape but is more 
slender; resembles V. dzbza in the crenulated 
shoulder of the early whorls and belongs to 
the same section (Awrinza), but differs from 
all other Volutes of the group in having the 
colors of plum and fawn, distributed in broad, 
revolving bands of great elegance. It has two 
plaits upon the column and no operculum, The 
riches of the Antillean deeps are hardly touch- 
ed yet! Yours sincerely, 
Wie DAD: 
BLACKLIST THEM. 
Ep. CoNcHoLocists’ EXCHANGE: Sz -— 
Blacklist whom? Why a lot of conchological 
frauds who get honest collectors by fair prom- 
ises and tempting offers, to send them shells 
and then perhaps never even acknowledge their 
receipt,to say nothing of making any return. It 
is not any particular grievance that causes me 
to write this,but a number. I have to-day,per- 
haps, 1000 species due from those who have 
made the fairest promises, not a shell of which 
I ever expect to receive, and my experience is 
that of many others. I believe in calling things 
by their right names, and I say that any one 
who induces a conchologist to send shells, and 
then deliberately makes no return, whatever, is 
no better than a thief. Persons so inclined 
have a great advantage, as the innocent sender 
is generally far away and cannot inflict personal 
chastisement,and the law will hardly take hold 
of such acase. This swindling business is on 
the increase. Five years ago I hardly knew a 
dishonest exchanger; to-day I can count these 
shell frauds by the dozen. There is a bitter 
feeling growing against these thieves among 
the honest and reliable, and already from a 
number of my better exchanges I have received 
lists of the black sheep, with warnings against 
him,and a request to send the list along the line. 
This is our only protection. Whenever any one 
is found out beyond a doubt to be a fraud,pub- 
lish him far and near and stop his disreputable 
business. Of course there may be cases when 
an honest person is unavoidably delayed in 
making a return exchange, but I thik that in 
such cases an explanation can generally be 
given. Any one who has time to correspond 
with you, to reply every time by return mail 
until he gets your shells, who can make out a 
tempting exchange listand select what he wants 
from yours,can certainly get time to dropa card 
and acknowledge your sending, and if it is im- 
possible to make a prompt return then let him 
say so honorably and give the reason why. 
SoME of my correspondents who have been 
taken in do not like to say anything about it for 
fear that these swindlers will retaliate on them. 
There need be no fear on this score. A person 
who swindles one will swindle all and can have 
but little inftuence. A person who deals hon- 
orably in his exchanges can always refer to his 
correspondents when writing to a stranger. 
Do not be in a hurry to denounce any one as 
a fraud. (Give a correspondent plenty of time. 
give him the benefit of every doubt. And if 
after repeated dunnings you can get no reply, 
pass his name around, and warn your fellow 
exchanges to beware of him and ask him to 
pass it around. It is time such stealing was 
stopped and that these rascals were set aside 
by themselves; apart from those who are 
prompt and honest, where they can swindle 
each other to their hearts content. 
Somewhat Indignantly Yours, 
CuHaAs. T. SIMPSON, 
June 17, 1887. Ogalalla, Nebraska. 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Bulletin of the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History, New York City, for May, 1887; 
also, Index to Vol. I. 1881 to 1886; from A. 
Woodward, Esq., Librarian of the Museum. 
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Entomo-. 
logical Society of Ontario; from Rev. C. J. 5. 
3ethune, Editor Canadian Entomologist, Pt. 
Hope, Ontario. 
The Agassiz Companion: from Wm. H. 
Plank, Wyandotte, Kansas. 
