MINERALS, FOSSILS, AND SHELLS on Sale by 



BRICE M. WRIGHT, 

 36, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, RLOOMSBURY, LONDON. 



MINERALS. 



The general stock of Minerals consists of 10,000 specimens, including nearly- 

 all the more impoi-tant of the known species, as well as many that are of very rare 

 occurrence, from which single specimens may be selected, at prices varying from 

 sixpence to five pounds and upwards. 



Among the recent additions to the stock, there may be mentioned, as worthy 

 of the notice of Mineralogists, a fine new meteoric Iron, from Zacatecas, Mexico 

 (descvibed by Dr. Hugo Miiller, in Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of 1858), 

 which will be cut up into polished slices of various sizes and prices to suit customers. 

 A number of fine specimens of Datholite, ft-om Bergeman Hill, New York. Also an 

 extensive assortment of Carbonates, Sulphates, Cupreous Sulphates, Phosphates and 

 Arseniates of Lead, and Cupreous Silicates of Zinc from Cumberland and Lead-hills. 

 To facilitate the study of Mineralogy, a series of collections may be had as imder : — 

 A genera,l Collection of Minerals containing 1000 specimens, 3-in. by 

 2-in,, named and an-anged according to the best authors, and 

 suitable for a Museum or Public Institution . . . . . £50 0 0 

 500 specimens of British Minerals, 3-in. by 2-in., named and arranged 



according to the new Manual by Lettsom and Greg . . . 25 0 0 



200 Ditto, of the same size 24-in. by l^-in 10 0 0 



200 Ditto, of smaller size . . . 500 



150 Ditto, still smaller size . . . . , . . . 2 10 0 

 Similar collections containing Foreign as well as British Blinerals, may he had at the 



same scale of prices. 

 200 specimens in neat Mahogany Cabinet, with five drawers, named 



and arranged, consisting of both earthy and metallic minerals, 



or either separately if required . . . . . . . 5 0 0 



432 specimens in Mahogany Case, with 10 trays, named and arranged 10 0 0 



ROCK-SPECIMENS. 

 Collections of Biitish Rocks, named and arranged, and containing 100 



specimens, varying in price, according to the size . . from £1 to £3 



Ditto of Scotch Rocks from £1 to £3 



FOSSILS. 



The collection of Fossils consists of several thousand specimens, many of which 



are fine and rare, from which selections may be made. 



A collection of British Fossils, carefully selected from each geological 

 formation, containing 200 species, named and stratigraphically 

 arranged according to the works of the best Authors . . .£300 



Illustrative Map to ditto, 6s, extra. The same may be had separately. 



A series of Fossils from each formation separately, may be had, each 0 10 0 



100 species of well-preserved Fossils from the Paris Basin, named 



after Deshayes 1 0 0 



SHELLS. 



The general stock of Shells contains many hundred genera, and of upwards of 

 10,000 specimens, from which selections may be made. Among them are to be 

 found many rare species too numerous to mention in detail. 

 A collection of 800 species, comprising several hundred genera and 



sub-genera, in all 2000 shells . £40 0 0 



100 species of fine cones, all named . . 5 0 0 



100 Ditto of Helix . . . . . .* * 3 0 0 



And other genera at similar prices. 

 200 established genera, figured in Woodward's Manual . . 3 0 0 



100 Ditto 100 



Collections of British Shells, carefully named from Forbes and Hanley's British 

 Molhisca, at the undermentioned prices : — 



200 specimens of 75 species ... ft 10 0 



aoo Ditto 100 „ * ' 10 a 



400 Ditto 150 „ ] . * 2 0 0 



Standard Works on Natural History, Conchology , and Mineralogy. Geological Maps, 

 Diagrams, Hammers, Glass-capped Boxes and Tubes are also kept on hand. 



