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Excerpt from The Conchologists' Exchange, Vol. 2: A Monthly Publication Designed for Conchologists and Scientists Generally; 1886-1890 One cannot recall without regret (regret that we were not present), the sale of the Pollock collection at Birch's this city, ten years since, when drawer after drawer of the finest Shells were sold for a mere song; the entire cabinet and library bringing less than We understand that numbers of these speci mens were secured for the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.