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They are station 4904, near Nagasaki, in 107 fathoms, sand and 

 shell, bottom temperature about 53 F., and station 4807, off 

 Hakodate, in 44 fathoms, gravel, temperature about 45 F., judging 

 from that at nearby stations. The fresh specimen is of a creamy 

 white, faintly pearly internally. I may add that the two species of 

 alleged Pholadomya, referred to in the text of the NAUTILUS article, 

 are now considered to belong to the genus Panacea (Dall, 1905) 

 with several others dredged in the deep waters of the Atlantic. 

 WM. H. DALL. 



MR. L. V. DALTON, in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society (London), Ixiv, Nov. 1908, p. 631, records Busycon canalicu- 

 latum (L.) from the Miocene of Burma. His figure will scarcely 

 convince skeptical American conchologists. From what we know 

 of the geological history of the shell in question and its allies, and 

 taking into consideration the fact that the veliger stage in Busycon 

 (Fulgur} is passed through inside the egg-capsule, and hence it has 

 no free swimming period, a record of its distribution half round the 

 earth needs better evidence than Mr. Dalton is satisfied with. 



SHELLS OF AROOSTOOK COUNTY, MAINE. Dr. V. Sterki has this 

 winter examined a part of my collection of small land shells, and 

 the result of his labor has been the identification of the following 

 additions to those already reported from Aroostook county, 

 Maine: 



Strobilops ajfinis Pils. 



Vertigo ovata Say. 



Vertigo nylanderi Sterki. 



Euconulus chersinus Say. 



All the above were collected in the town of Woodland. 

 OLOF O. NYLANDEB. 



The oyster is cool and clear and calm, 

 Admired by the many and not the few ; 



Yet, sorry to say, possesses a way 

 Of getting himself in a stew. 



