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ADVERTISEMENTS. 



MINERALS, FOSSILS, AND SHELLS on Sale by 



BKYCE M. WRIGHT, 

 36, GEEAT EUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBUEY, LONDON. 



MINESALS. 



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

 all the more important 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 

 (described by Dr. Hugo Mliller, 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, from Bergeman Hill, New York. Also au 

 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 from 

 £2 10s to £50. 



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

 same scale of prices. 



EOCE-SPECIMENS. 



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



specimens, varying in price, according to the size . . fi'om £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 mad«. 



Collections of British Fossils, carefully selected from each geological formation, 

 named and stratigraphically arranged, according to the works of the best Authors, 

 from £1 to £3. 



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. 



Collections from £3 to £40. 



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

 Mollusca, from 10s. to £2. 



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

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



p LASS-CAPPED CIRCULAR BOXES, of various diameters and 

 yX depths for preserving and displaying in Cabinets delicate Fossils, Minerals, 

 Recent Shells, Eggs, &c., can now be purchased of 



JAMES GREGORY, 3, King William-street, Strand. 



JOHN GRAY, 13, Upper King-street, Holborn. 



GEORGE KNIGHT, 2, Foster-lane, Cheapside. 



ROBERT HENSON, 113a, Strand. 



CAROLINE SOWERBY, 61, Great RusseU-street, Bloomsbury. 

 JAMES TENNANT, 149, Strand. 



BRICE M. WRIGHT, 36, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. 

 G. B. SOWERBY, 391, Strand. 

 The application of these boxes to Natural History purposes may be seen in 

 the Museums of Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, and Liverpool. 



A lithographed sheet, shewing sizes and prices, may be had by post. 



EDWARD CHARLESWORTH, 



British Natuhal History Society, 

 York, 



