. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 204 NATURAL specimens are still worth ten guineas. The Ci/prwu kacodon, in the same collection, is unic|ue, and worth .£50; the C. princeps was valued at £60 ; and other examples have realised £iO at the Taukerville sale, and .£40 at the sale of Mr. Holford's collection ; Mr. Dennison, of Liverpool, had one which cost £35. The specimen of Cyprcea guttata in the British Museum is valued at £40 ; and the rare little Cyprcea barclayi, when fii-st brought to England, obtained £10 ; and Cyprcea guttata has realised sums varyin
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 204 NATURAL specimens are still worth ten guineas. The Ci/prwu kacodon, in the same collection, is unic|ue, and worth .£50; the C. princeps was valued at £60 ; and other examples have realised £iO at the Taukerville sale, and .£40 at the sale of Mr. Holford's collection ; Mr. Dennison, of Liverpool, had one which cost £35. The specimen of Cyprcea guttata in the British Museum is valued at £40 ; and the rare little Cyprcea barclayi, when fii-st brought to England, obtained £10 ; and Cyprcea guttata has realised sums varying from £12 to £30, within the last ten year.^, and as the specimens are generally in poor condition, it is certain that fine examples would still command a high price. The cabinet of Miss Saul, of Bow Lodge, is considered to be richer than any other in this grouj) of shells, and the late Mr. Gaskoin, who wrote a monograph of the genus Cyprcea had a very extensive series, which afterwards was united to the magnificent collection of the late Mr. Lombe Taylor, of Starston. (S. P. Woodward.) The Money Cowry {Cyprcea moneta) is a native of the Pacific and I'^astern seas. Many tons' weight of this little shell are annually imported into England, and again exported for barter with the native tribes of Western Africa. In the year 1848 sixty tons t'tlic Money Cowry were imported into Liverpool. Wilson says of ' '//'/â (( r/ iiwneta :â"The Cowry shells used as currency are procured u till' coast of Congo, and in the Philippine and Maldive Islands. ' ()f the latter, indeed, they still constitute the chief article of export. \t what remote date, or at what early stage of rudimentary civi- lisation, this singular representative shell-currency was introduced, it is perhaps vain to inquire, but the extensive area over which .E\ co«n\ it ^'^^ long been recognised proves its great antiquity. The Philippine Islands form, in part, the eastern boundary of the Southern
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