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ADVERTISEMENTS. 
MINERALS, FOSSILS, AND SHELLS on Sale by 
BEYCE M. WRIGHT, 
36, GEEAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBURY, LONDON. 
MINEBAIS. 
' The general stock of Minerals consists of 10,000 specimens, including nearly 
.ill 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 pi-ices 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 Miiller, in Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of 1858), 
which will be cut up into polished slices of variou.s sizes and prices to suit customers. 
A number of fine specimens of Datholite, from 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 from 
£2 10s to £50. 
Similar collectiona containing Foreign as well as British Minerals, may be had at the 
same scale of prices. 
BOCE.SFECIMENS. 
Collections of British 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. 
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 
MoUusca, 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. 
LASS-CAPPED CIRCULAR BOXES, of various diameters and 
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 Russell-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. 
Bbitish Natural History Society, 
York, 
