Field Notebook: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New York
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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