THE NAUTILUS. 119 



The mussel also somewhat resembles P. randolphi Roper, from 

 Seatllc, Washington, but is much more oblique, the beaks ure larger, 

 and the surface stria? sre slighter, more shallow, and more distant. 



P. (furcfilum var.?) rhomb icum. Mussel smaller, more oblique, 

 rhombic in outlines; beaks small, color more yellow; the posterior 

 part of the right cardinal tooth is thin and plain and correspondingly 

 the space between the two left ones is quite narrow; ligament short 

 and slight. Long. 3, alt. 2.G, diam. 1.8 mm. (the largest specimen). 

 Also probably none of these are full-grown. Ilab.: with the preced- 

 ing, in the same lot. Apparently of the same group with P.fui-ctttuin, 

 to judge from the shape; more material will prove whether the two 

 are distinct or forms of one species. 



F. W. BRYANT. 



Mr. F. W. Bryant, of San Diego, Cal., while visiting Hawaii, 

 died of heart failure on October 23, 1912. Born in Ohio about 70 

 years ago, he was an old friend of the late Prof. A. G. Wetherby, 

 with whom he often collected. He described several species of 

 California!! land shells in THE NAUTILUS (vol. XIII, pages 122 

 and 113, 1900 and Vol. XVI, page 70, 1902). Pijramidula bryanti 

 Harper, was named in his honor. 



NOTES. 



LAMARCK'S COLLECTION OF SHELLS "We take the liberty of 

 quoting from a letter to one of the editors written by Mr. Charles 

 Hedley from Geneva, Oct. 18, '12. "I have just been through 

 Lamarck's types and have been rewarded for my trouble by recover- 

 ing two or three lost species. The Lamarckian collection was as 

 you know bequeathed by Delessert to the Geneva Museum. It is in 

 excellent preservation, kept locked up apart from the general collec- 

 tion in four cabinets. The shells are gummed on the usual tablets 

 and in the case of the bivalves the original label in Lamarck's writing 

 is pasted to the under surface of the tablets. Each tablet has a 

 colored margin to indicate geographical division ; thus Australasia 

 dark blue, Indian ocean yellow. " There is also a copy of the 



