"M. Belson'IRelief funb. 



THE 



Mk. William Nklson, of Crossgates, one of the four original 

 Foimtlers of the Conchological Society, its tirst President, 

 and for many years a Co-Editor of the Journal of Concholog)/, 

 being now in needy circumstances, has addressed to the 

 Concliological Chib a patlietic appeal for help in Ids extremity. 



Mr. Nelson is well known in conchological circles for 

 his enthusiastic efforts to popularize and diffuse an apprecia- 

 tion and love of conchology, and for liis profound knowledge 

 of the biology, distribution, and variation of the Litnva'idai, 

 to whose study he has dedicated the leisure hours of the 

 greater part of his life, and of which group his collection is 

 believed to be almost unrivalled. 



After a long and laboiious life, Mi'. Nklson, who is now 

 seventy-one years of age, has latterly suffered fi'om a series 

 of severe attacks of Iieart-failure and partial paralysis ; each 

 attack has left him feebler and more crippled than before, 

 and at last has entirely incapacitated him from following 

 any employment whatever, and therefore cut off the income 

 from his labours upon which himself and household have 

 hitherto dependent. 



In response to Mr. Nelson's appeal, a small Com- 

 mittee has been appointed to raise a Fund for his benefit, 

 as it was felt that in addition to his personal friends, 

 there are probably many others who would gladly aid 

 him in his hour of need, and thus enable him to pass his 

 declining years in comparative comfort and freedom 

 from actual want. 



