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THE NATURALISTS’ JOURNAL. 
November 13th. Very mild ; 58° in the shade, and butter¬ 
flies out. Some weeks back I met with a beautiful specimen 
of the Large Egger Moth, also a caterpillar of the Great Goat 
Moth, both of which are rare here. 
The fossiliferous remains of extinct animals which I mentioned 
in my previous notes, belong in all probability to the mammoth, 
mastodon, elk, ox, and some others. The antlers and the horn 
cores are of huge proportion. I will not venture to give an 
opinion as to the time they have been buried thirty feet below 
the surface, but I have no doubt they were deposited during 
the glacial, or ice age. I believe some remains somewhat 
similar have been found in the cement workings in Bedford¬ 
shire. It may not be generally known that the manufacture of 
very good cement is quite a new industry in this locality. 
Rambler. 
THE PRACTICAL NATURALIST. 
THE CONCHOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND ARRANGING 
LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS. 
By H. D urrant. 
Old collectors will find nothing here to interest them, let 
them pass on and read the advertisement sheet; young collectors 
will be more disposed to stop and listen, and indeed it is for 
these I write. On first commencing to make a collection of 
natural objects, the tyro is generally quite at sea and more 
especially so in the preservation and arrangement of his 
treasures. If they are objects of a perishable nature his time 
will be lost in the collecting thereof, and assuredly his temper 
will not be very much improved. Shells however are so easily 
preserved chat the subject scarcely requires an article all to itself, 
but still, as the Editor wishes to make this department of the 
Natuaralists’ Journal as complete and as successful as 
possible, I bow to the chair and submit to his injunctions to 
scribble these few lines. 
The first thing we look to, then, is our apparatus, and of this 
you can have so much and of so wondrous construction, withal, 
as to fairly require the services of a handcart, or you may walk 
out by the side of a common or garden walking stick, with your 
apparatus all stowed away in your coat tail pocket. 
