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ADVERTISEMENTS. 
MINERALS, FOSSILS, AND SHELLS 
on Sale by 
BRYCE M. WRIGHT, 
36, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, LONDON, 
MINERALS. 
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 occmTence, from which single specimens may be selected, at prices varying 
from Gd. to £5 and upwards. 
Among the repent 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 Miiher, in Quarterly Jowmal 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 DathoUte, from Bergeman HiU, New 
York. Also an extensive assortment of Carbonates, Sulphates, Cupreous Sul- 
phates, Phosphates and Arseniates of Lead, and Cupreous Sihcates of Zinc from 
Cimiberland and Lead-MUs. To faoiKtate 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. 
ROCK-SPECIMENS. 
Collections of British Rocks, named and arranged, and contain. 
ing 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 himdred genera, and upwards of 
10,000 specimens, from which selections may be made. Among them are to be 
fomid many rare species, too numerous to mention in detail. 
Collections from £3 to £40. 
Collections of British Shells, carefaUy named from Forbes and Hanley's British 
Mollusca, from 10s. to £2. 
Standard works on Natural History, Conchology, a/nd Mineralogy, Geological Maps, 
Diagrams, Ha/mmers, Glass-capped Boxes, and Tubes are also kept on hand. 
GLASS-CAPPED CIRCULAR BOXES, of various diameters and depths, for 
preserving and displaying in Cabinets dehcate Fossils, Minerals, Recent 
Shells, Eggs, &c., can now be purchased of 
JAMES GREGORY, 3, King William-street, Strand. 
JOHN GRAY, 13, Upper King-street, Holbom. 
GEORGE KNIGHT, 2, Foster-lane, Cheapside. 
ROBERT HENSON, 113a, Strand. 
CAROLINE SOWERBY, 61, Great Russell-strcet, Bloomsbury. 
JAMES TENNANT, 149, Strand. 
BRYCE M. WRIGHT, 36, Great RusseU-street, Bloomsbury. 
G. B. SOWERBY, 391, Strand. 
The application of these boxes to Natm'al Histoiy purposes may be seen in the 
Museums of Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, and Liverpool. 
A lithographed sheet, showing sizes and prices, may bo had by post. 
EDWARD CHARLESWORTH. 
BiiiTiSH Natukal Histoky Society, Yokk. 
