310 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1893. 



August 1. 

 Rev. Henry C. McCook, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Eight persons present. 



A paper under the following title was presented for publication : — 

 " Certain Sand Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida. Part I," 

 by Clarence B. Moore. 



August 8. 

 Mr. Charles Morris in the chair. 

 Eleven persons present. 



August 15. 

 Mr. Uselma C. Smith in the chair. 



Twenty-two persons present. 



The Publication Committee reported in favor of publishing the 

 paper by Clarence B. Moore entitled " Certain Sand Mounds of the 

 St. John's River, Florida, Part I," as the first paper of Volume X 

 of the Journal of the Academy. 



Remarks on a New Species of Cyprcea. — Mr. John Ford, in pre- 

 senting the types of a new species of Cyprcua remarked that his 

 conclusions regarding their distinctive specific- character were based 

 upon the careful study of a large number of specimens of various 

 sizes and stages of growth, all of which could be readily separated 

 from any other species belonging to the genus. 



In the first description, published by him in The Nautilus, Feb., 

 1893, the shells were defined as a variety of C. cruenta Gmel., the 

 suggestion being made, however, that most students would have 

 given them specific standing. For this reason this change has since 

 been made, and any further reference to their previous varietal 

 standing is deemed unnecessary. It may be said, however, that 

 the shell appears to have been figured by Kiener 1 as a variety of 

 C. variolarla Lam. (C. cruenta Gmel.) and possibly by Sowerby, 2 

 and Melvill, 3 the two latter authors apparently differing in opinion 

 as to its relative varietal standing, the former referring it to 



1 Iconographie Coquilles Vivantes, page 57, pi. 27, fig. 2. 



2 Thesaurus Conchyliorum. Plale 23, fig. 190- 



3 1st Vol. 4th series of Memoirs and Proc. of the Manchester, (Engd.) Lit. 

 and Phil. Society, 18S7-8. 



