100 THE NAUTILUS. 



I am at a loss to account for the mental process which has 

 led Mr. Iredale to his deductions. PAUL BARTSCH. 



ERRATA. In the article: On the status of Chioraera, by H. P. 

 Kjerschow-Agersborg, on p. 55, second reference, for " Den. 

 drototidernes " read Dendronotidernes, and for "Psekke" read 

 Reekke. 



The second correction should also be made in the reference to 

 Bergh, 1902, p. 56. 



CONCERNING HELIX CALCAREA PFR. In his interesting notes 

 on Madeiran Land Shells in the October NAUTILUS, Dr. Cocke- 

 rell states that Helix calcarea " has been ignored since its publi- 

 cation by Pfeiffer in 1848 ". He is mistaken; for Lowe, as long 

 ago as 1854, reached Cockerell's conclusion regarding the shell 

 in his admirable List of the Land Shells of Madeira in Proc. 

 Zool. Soc., London, p. 171, where he says of it, under H. pisana 

 Mull. : " Var. albida decolorata (nee subfossilis) est H. calcarea 

 Pf. in Proceed. Zool. Soc., 1848, p. 110: Kust. M. et C. p. 275, 

 no. 757, t. 123, f. 3, 4. (Ex autopsia exempl. in Mus. Cum- 



On the same page Lowe names the type locality of his H. 

 uatulata "In insulis 'Salvages '."WILLIAM G. MAZYCK. 



The life story of Sir Marcus Samuel, who has purchased from 

 the Earl of Berkeley for the sum of $25,000,000 a parcel of the 

 fashionable residential section of London, known as Berkeley 

 Square, furnishes one of the real romances of the business world. 



Sir Marcus, in his early days, kept a little shop in one of the 

 poorer quarters of the British metropolis, where he made and 

 sold for a shilling or two ornamental boxes made of shells from 

 the seashore. Later he invested his savings in oil, made money 

 and started a company called the ' ' Shell, ' ' thus identifying his 

 big new venture with his original struggling business. Since 

 those days he has accumulated a fortune of many millions and 

 has been honored with a baronetcy. And all from selling shells 

 from the seashore mixed with an abundance of brains and 

 energy. Washington Evening Post. 



