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ing material may be assured that no defective, worthless, or, in 

 the case of the bivalves, unmatched pieces, will reach him. Where 

 an imperfection was found I have taken pains to note it. 



I will attend kind orders which may be transmitted to me in 

 prepaid letters, by foreign collectors, with careful exactitude 

 and conscientiousness : and I dare assure the purchaser that the 

 exact specimens ordered will reach him and not a substitute for 

 them ; and I ask that a careful statement of catalogue and page 

 numbers and the double number be transmitted to me w4th the 

 orders, so that no mistakes may occur. 



The sale will be made for cash in the local currency upon de- 

 livery. Foreigners may transmit their orders in the currency of 

 their country, which I will carefully exchange into our local money. 



In again most highly recommending this splendid collection, 

 the dismemberment of which is very much to be lamented, I again 

 offer to furnish additional information either by personal inter- 

 view or by correspondence if such should be desired. 



Johannes Noodt. 



