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Gentlemen at our Albany Ind. He has
an immense amount of Louisville
fossils, some crayon loads.
One large specimen of slightly agglutin
cylindraceum about 2x2 feet he will
sell for $50.00 weighs about 120 pounds.
Another but small specimen he will
sell for $8.00. It is cradled out by acid
and it about 8x1 inches.
A fine naturally weathered specimen of
slightly agglutinatum he was one for $5.00
He can sell between 15 to 20 species
of cup corals at from 25c to 35c per
specimen.
He would be pleased to send any
material in effort not paying charge for
the returned specimens.
To remove the silicious matrix ad-
hern to shells he dips them into a
weak solution of nitric oxalic acid
when the scale can be picked away