List of Dealers in Fossils, Minerals, &c.

British Natural History Society, for the distribution of Fossils and Recent Shells, London Agent for the, 30, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden.

Charlton, Mr., at the Geological Society’s apartments, Somerset House. For boards and tablets for fossils; prepared and backed paper for diagrams; cabinets for specimens, &c. An excellent and intelligent workman, and moderate in his charges.

Cuttell, Mr., 52, New Compton-street, Lapidary. Prepares fossil teeth, &c. for the microscope.

Darker, Mr., Lapidary, 9, Paradise-street, Lambeth. Fossil and recent objects for the microscope. Specimens of the infusorial earths, teeth of fishes and reptiles, marbles, &c.

Edwards, 40, High-street, Camden Town. For hoards for cabinets, to affix fossils, shells, &c. instead of trays.

McLellan, 107, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. Manufactures the trays for the British Museum. Wooden trays with black sides, 2 inches by 2, to 6 inches by 2, price 7s. per dozen. This price is much too high, except for public collections. Common card or pasteboard trays answer every purpose.

Simmons, Mr., 6, Francis-street, Newington Butts. Collector of fossils; especially of choice Chalk fossils and fossil Foraminifera.

Sowerby, Mr. G. B. (the eminent naturalist), 50, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. All kinds of minerals, fossils, and recent shells.

Tennant, Mr. J. Professor of Mineralogy and Geology to King’s College, 149, Strand. Every purchasable species of fossil, mineral, or shell may be obtained; as well as the various microscopic fossils, infusorial earths, slices of teeth, wood, marble, &c. The collections formed by Mr. Tennant for the student in Geology, PalÆontology, and Mineralogy are admirably calculated to afford that practical acquaintance with specimens, so indispensable to the acquisition of a knowledge of Geology. A series may be obtained, illustrative of the system of instruction suggested in these volumes, and arranged in a sequence corresponding to the order in which the fossils are described. The price of a mahogany cabinet with five trays, containing 200 specimens, illustrative of the elementary works on Geology, is five guineas: cabinets with fewer and less valuable specimens from two to three guineas. The following is an outline of the contents of the five guinea cabinet—

Minerals which are either the components of Rocks, or occasionally imbedded in them:—Quartz, Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Garnet, Zeolite, Hornblende, Augite, Asbestus, Felspar, Mica, Talc, Tourmaline, Calcareous Spar, Fluor, Selenite, Baryta, Strontia, Salt, Sulphur, Plumbago, Bitumen, &c.

Native Metals, or Metalliferous Minerals; these are found in masses or beds, in veins, and occasionally in the beds of rivers. Specimens of the following Metallic Ores are put in the Cabinet:—Iron, Manganese, Lead, Tin, Zinc, Copper, Antimony, Silver, Gold, Platina, &c.

Rocks; Granite, Gneiss, Mica-slate, Clay-slate, Porphyry, Serpentine, Sandstones, Limestones, Basalt, Lavas, &c.

Silurian Fossils from the Llandeilo, Wenlock, and Ludlow Rocks.

Secondary Fossils from the Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Lias, Oolite, Purbeck, Wealden, and Cretaceous Groups.

Tertiary Fossils from the Thanet Sands, Woolwich and Reading beds, Bracklesham, Barton, and London Clays, Isle of Wight fresh-water series, Crag, &c.

Mr. Tennant has also models of many unique and rare fossils; as for example, teeth, horn, claw-bones, &c. of the Iguanodon; lily encrinite; small models of the upright coal-trees, near Bolton; of the magnificent Plesiosaurus of Mr. Hawkins’s collection, now in the British Museum (price 4l. 4s.); Mr. Sopwith’s models of stratification, &c.

Topping, Mr. 1, York-place, Pentonville-hill; supplies boards and cases, and every kind of fossil infusoria, &c.; polished slices of fossil wood and teeth; and all kinds of microscopical objects, admirably prepared, and at moderate prices.

British Museum.—Models of some of the most remarkable fossils in the National Collection (a list of which is published in the "Synopsis of the British Museum ") may be purchased of the Formatore.

Microscopes.—A microscope is now an indispensable instrument for the collector of fossil remains; and, in fact, for the cultivator of any natural science. A microscope sufficient for every useful purpose may be obtained, at the price of from seven to twenty guineas, of—

Poulton, Mr. C., Wooburn, near Marlow, Bucks; beautiful preparations of minute fossil animal and vegetable structures for the microscope at 1s. 3d. per slide. Infusorial earths admirably prepared. Specimens of foraminifera, recent and fossil. Grignon sand with, foraminifera, &c.

Powell, Mr., 24, Clarendon-street, Clarendon-square.

Pritchard, Mr. Andrew, Fleet-street; the author of various useful works on microscopical subjects. Mr. Pritchard’s microscope, of from seven to ten guineas, has been purchased by several of my geological friends, and admirably answers the purpose of investigation.

Ross, Mr. 21, Featherstone-buildings, Holborn; justly celebrated for the perfection of his instruments.

Smith and Beck, Messrs. 6, Coleman-street, City.

BRIGHTON.

Nightingale, Mr. 52, Frederick-street, near the railway station Brighton A large assortment of Sussex chalk and other fossils. Mr. Nightingale is a first-rate artist in clearing chalk fishes and crustaceans.

Thatcher, Mr., West Cliff, King’s-road, has often very choice chalk fossils, admirably cleared, and at fair prices.

Most of the pebbles cut and set in brooches, and sold by the lapidaries and jewellers in this town, as Brighton common German moss-agates. The green brooches called Brighton aqua marines! are rolled fragments of bottle-glass. Occasionally good sections of the Choanites (see p. 234) may be obtained: inquire for "petrified sea-anemones."

CHIPPENHAM, WILTS.

Buy, William; for Oxford Clay fossils of the greatest variety and in the highest perfection. Especially celebrated for his discovery and admirable development of the soft parts of Belemnoteuthides, Belemnites with phragmocones, &c.

DOVER.

Griffiths, Paradise-street.

Moses, Stroud-street; has generally a large collection of Chalk and Galt fossils.

HASTINGS.

Bissenden, Thomas, West-street; Oliver, Elizabeth, 7, Parade; of whom Wealden fossils from the neighbouring cliffs may often be obtained.

RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT

Fowlstone, Mr., 4, Victoria Arcade.

SHEERNESS.

Hayes, Patrick, Sheppey-street, Blue Town. The usual Sheppey fossils. According to his own list, he has for sale,—petrified whelk-shells, cockles, clams, screws, Nautilus. Fruits, various; as beans, coffee, figs nuts. Crabs, lobsters, turtles. Fishes' heads, teeth, and spine-bones. His charge for perfect specimens is high; a Nautilus, cut in half and polished, presenting two perfect sections, 25s.; if imperfect, 1s. or 2s. A fish’s head, or lobster, 10s. to 15s.; imperfect examples, 6d. to 2s.; see p. 840.

VENTNOR, ISLE OF WIGHT.

Wheeler, Charles, Holder’s Sea-side Cottage. An excellent guide to the most interesting localities along the southern shore of the island. Collects and sells specimens.

WARMINSTER.

Baker, Mr.; dealer in fossils. The Warminster Greensand, and Chalk fossils.

WEYMOUTH.

Damon Mr. Robert, dealer in fossils; has always on sale a large and excellent collection of the organic remains from the neighbourhood of Weymouth, the Isle of Portland, and Lyme Regis, &c. A series of recent British shells, from 200 to 400 species, correctly named.

YORK.

British Natural History Society, for the distribution of Fossils and recent shells; conductor, &c. Mr. Charlesworth, Curator of the York Museum.

Notes on the Prices of Fossils.—A Short communication by the Author to Charlesworth’s London Geological Journal, No. I. p. 13, contains a list of the prices of several interesting fossils and collections of fossils.

Minerals.—A complete series of the minerals of Cumberland comprising specimens of great beauty and interest, can be obtained of John Cowper, Alston, Cumberland; he may be relied upon for his knowledge and attention, and his prices are moderate.