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streams in the county large enough to require a ferry. As the 

 shells occur in the Kentucky River, it may be assumed that 

 Wetherby meant the Clay's Ferry of that stream. It is upon a 

 part of the river forming the border of Clark and Madison 

 counties. Richmond is the nearest large town. 



A letter-writers' controversy that raged for several days in a 

 New York newspaper brought out little known facts about the 

 spelling of the "Muscle" part of Muscle Shoals. Philologists 

 who contributed to Murray's exhaustive dictionary have mobi- 

 lized no less than 26 English spellings for the mollusk called 

 mussel. A writer of 1584 informed his readers that witches 

 "can saile in an egge shell, a cockle or muscle shell." A 

 traveler's book of 1681 reported that "The natives of Brasile 

 use muscle shells for spoons and knives." In Glover's History 

 of Derby (1829) mention is made of "a stratum of muscle 

 shells." The poet Browning, in 1873, said that: 



' ' Granite and muscle shell are ground alike 

 To glittering paste. ' ' 



Messrs. Wharton Huber and Fletcher Street sailed for Blue- 

 fields, Nicaragua, Feb. 28th. They are to collect zoological and 

 botanical specimens for the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. 



PUBLICATIONS KECEIVED. 



RECENT MOLLUSCA OF THE GULF OF MEXICO, AND PLEISTOCENE 

 AND PLIOCENE SPECIES FROM THE GULF STATES. Part 2. Scapho- 

 poda, Gastropoda, Amphineura, Cephalopoda. By Carlotta Joa- 

 quina Maury (Bull. Amer. Paleontology, Vol. 9, No. 38, pp. 

 34-142, 1922). A useful list with bibliography and distribu- 

 tion. We notice a few cases where the author has overlooked 

 some important changes in nomenclature. Siphonaria lineolata 

 is preoccupied and S. naufragum Stearns should be used instead. 

 In place of Oliva circinata Marr. C. sayana Ravenel should be 

 used (NAUTILUS, Vol. 28, p. 138, 1915). Scaphella junonia is 



