60 THE NAUTILUS. 



Those interested must read the chapter for themselves and regret 

 its shortness and shortcomings, with the hope that the author may 

 give students the benefit of a more full and exact account of the re- 

 sults of his unusual opportunities in this direction. 



Anyone who has ever studied living squids cannot but delight in 

 his simile of the sheet-lightning of a setting thunder-storm for the 

 color-play of the chromatophores. At all events it bears the hall- 

 mark of genuine observation. F. N. BALCH. 



LOTORIUM FELIPPONEI n. sp. by H. von Ihering, Buenos Aires, 

 1908. A new species of the " Triton " pileare group is described 

 and figured in this paper, issued as a separate publication. It was 

 found at Maldanado, Uruguay, by Dr. Florentine Felippone, of 

 Montevideo. 



ERRATA In the June number, the following corrections should 

 be made. Page 15, line 19, for " [now Bergh] " read [non Bergh]. 



P. 16, line 9, for "now" read "non Coryphella bostoniensis 

 (Couth.)." 



MRS. GEORGE ANDREWS died at her home, Circle Park, Knox- 

 ville, Tenn., on Saturday, September 5th. Many conchologists, 

 especially those of us whose activity in the science dates back twenty 

 years or more, were friends or correspondents of Mrs. Andrews, and 

 will hear of her death with sorrow. A notice of Mrs. Andrews's life 

 will follow. 



MR. JAS. H. FERRISS is exploring the mountains of Arizona for 

 land shells, ferns, etc., intending to return about the first of No- 

 vember. 



DR. JOHN B. TRASK, a pioneer of science on the West Coast, is 

 the subject of an interesting article by Dr. R. E. C. Stearns (Science, 

 Aug. 21). Trask went to California in 1850 and was one of the 

 little coterie who founded the California Academy of Science. He 

 discovered many mollusks, among other scientific labors, Epiphrag- 

 mophora traski, and several other species bear his name. 



