iAiheCONCHOBOGISTS! -peXCEHANGE: 
PALPI. 
YULE-TIDE is near, and you will need friends like 
Messrs. Porter & Coates, or you will miss it, as their 
well-stocked book shelves conclusively prove. Mr. 
George R. Nell, a gentleman of long experience in 
the book trade, will fill all orders, either directly or 
with what the miner tells you of the beauties un- 
derground? A sight of those for sale by our triend, 
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Mr. J. ©. Carr, will make you sorry for past indif- | 
ference. / 
Isn’r it about time to dust out that mysterious 
Christmas closet up stairs, to set a new combination 
for the lock, ke? You couldn’t begin the hoard with 
a nicer, cleanér work than Professor Keep’s “ West 
Coast Shells.’ It is written in the conversational 
style, which young students like so well, and Harry 
‘or Madie, once the owner of it, will read it all the 
year round. 
day, that ‘‘he could do without the aid of THE 
CONCHOLOGISTS’ EXCHANGE.” A reference to our 
mail book shows that /e had received no sample copies 
for several months. Comment is unnecessary. 
WHERE the bees’ hive, there work is brisk. 
Mr. James M. Southwick writes, he is so busy he ean 
hardly turn around. Verbum sat sapienti 
Mr. JAMES SPENCER, Of Halifax, England, has a 
full line of Natural History goods for the inspection 
of his American patrons. He makes a specialty of 
micro-preparations of Coal Plants. 
SOME time since we thought we should have to 
stop selling our $1.00 Offers, as the profits were so 
close; but our friends insist upon another series, 
and we issue No, 7 in this number, No. 1 Exchange 
Box has wet with much favor. 
Our friend, Prof. Berlin H. Wright, now of Penn 
Yan, N. Y., but after November 1st, of Lake Helen, 
Fla., has everything to please you from a beautiful 
shell foe home in that American Orange Free State 
—Florida. 
THE neatest, smallest and most useful thing out, 
is the Return Request Letter Stamp, issued by The 
National Letter-Return Association, of Chicago, Il. 
We will send you circular for stamp, and can supply 
you with 120 stamps for 30 cents, 600 for $1.00. Try 
them and keep your letters out of the Dead Letter 
Office. Address The Conchologists’ Exchange. 
“T WOULD be very sorry to give it up;” ‘I have 
so many offers to exchange that I can’t accommodate 
them all, thanks to your paper;” “An excellent 
paper;” “My advertisement is doing good work. 
Searcely a day passes but I hear from new corre- 
spondents,” are a few of the many comments upon 
the usefulness of THE CoNCHOLOGISTS’ EXCHANGE, 
brought to us by every mail. 
offers. 
Terms to NON-SUBSCRIBERS, which must be 
cash with order, are as follows: Exchanges of 20 
words, including address, 10 cents; for each addi- 
tional 10 words the charge will be 5 cents. No ex- 
change will be inserted for less than 10 cents. 
Offered.—Unio Anodoutoides, Lea; Helix Berlan- 
dieriana, Mor , Texasiana, Mor., thyroides, Say, lep- 
ovina, Gould; and other Texan shells for offers in 
Shells. W.W. WESTGATE, Houston, Texas 
Wanted.—South American land and fresh-water 
Shells. Offered.—Ceylonese, Indian and_ others 
Send list. MISS LINTER, Arragon Close, Twicken- 
ham, England. 
Offered.—Knorr: Horens en Schelpen; Sowerby : 
Thesaurus, Monograph Veneridse. Wanted.—Vol- 
umes of American Journal of Conchology, or other 
conchological books. M. M. SCHEPMAN, Rhoon, 
near Rotterdam, Holland. 
Five specimens of the fossil Leda truncata from 
the clays of the Champlain Period in Maine, for 
CHAS. A. DAVIS, Prof. Nat. Science, Alma, 
Mich. 
Wanted.—In perfect condition, with localities:— ~ 
CYPR.H®A aurantium, niyosa, exusta, Scotti, thersi- 
tes, tessellata, physis, eglantina, fusco-dentata and 
umbilicata. MURKEX, Saulie, palma-rosz and tenu- 
ispina. OLIVA, angulata, maura, Melchersi, por- 
phyria, tenebrosa, tremulina. STROMBUS guttatus, 
latissimus and melanostomus. VOLUTA, fulgetra, 
junonia, imperialis, magnifica, reticulata, Rossiniana 
and rare Asiatic, Australian, African and South 
American Bulimi, Helicide and Unionide, and 
conchological works of all kinds, 
Offered.—50 species of Tertiary and other Fossils 
from Southern States and Europe, Woodward's Man- 
ual of the Mollusea 75 edition: Leidy’s Memoir of 
the Extinct Sloth Tribe, N. A.; Lea’s Syn. of Family 
of Naiades, ’52 edition: Hays’ Descrip. Inf. Max’y 
Bones of Mastodons, 10 plates: ‘Agassiz and Gould’s 
Comp. Physiology, Bohn’s edition: Coultas, Prin. 
Botany, Cryptogamia: Lea’s on a Fossil Sauriav of 
the New Red Sandstone Formt’n; Lesquereux’s 
Cretaceous Flora, 50 plates, Smith’s Mis. Col. Vol. 4, 
Neuroptera, Vol. 6 Diptera and Coleoptera, 3 pp out, 
uncut, or any of the shells on my Price List which 
IT may have in duplicate. Parties not having any of 
the shells wanted above, need not apply. W. D. 
AVERELL, Chestnut Hill, Phila. 
Offered.—15 species Unios, including Aberti, pur- 
puratus, Schooleraftii, and subrostratus, 5 species 
Anodonta. Fossil Oyster Shells. Satisfaction guar- 
anteed. Send list. FRANK J. FORD, Wichita, 
Kan. 
