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I have determined to offer for sale, my Cabinet of Marine, Land and Fresh Water Shells, known as the "Jewett Collection," and desire to call your attention to the fact. The Cabinet was collected in part by my father, Col.E.Jewett; and to it he devoted the last fifteen years of his life. It comprises about 14,000 species and is peculiarly rich in New Zealand, Australia and Tasmanian land Shells, as well as those of the Pacific Islands generally. In the Marine Shells of the Southern coast of the Union and the Gulf of Mexico, it approaches completeness.
While Col.Jewett's travels and personal efforts, aided largely in building up the collection, his reputation as a keen collector, brought him in communication with the leading conchologists of the world; and he was thus enabled, by means of judicious exchanges, to bring it to a perfection rarely attainable in private collections. This characteristic of universality in its formation, renders the collection especially valuable as a medium of instruction in the science of Conchology in a College or other institution. Each species is accurately named, the locality noted and authority given.
The collection is considered by those acquainted with it and competent of forming an opinion, as one of the very choicest in the country. The Cabinet is, at present, at Lockport, N.Y.,
For further particulars, please address
Mrs. A.A. Boyce,
Santa Barbara,
California.
Santa Barbara, May, 1833