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lawyer, beiug admitted to the bar in 1856. As a member of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences he was especially interested in 

 conchology, his collection being notably rich in Volutidre and 

 Cyprseidse. 



The Boston Society of Natural History has purchased the Rev. 

 J. T. Gu lick's personal collection of Achatiuella of the Hawaiian 

 Islands. In his annual report, the curator, Prof. Alpheus Hyatt 

 says : " This accession makes the Society's collection the most com- 

 plete in existence, if to the list of species and the number of shells 

 we also add the facts that it is accurately labelled, contains seventy- 

 two originals of the species already described, has a full representa- 

 tion of a number of now extinct varieties and species, and was 

 collected so many years ago that it can be used in some localities to 

 show that new species have arisen upon Oahu within the past ten or 

 twenty years. There are at present under this roof about fourteen 

 or fifteen thousand shells of this one group, which many naturalists 

 consider to be but one genus. These practically all belong to the 

 Society, and there are also about six thousand more, the property of 

 Mr. Oleson, of Worcester, kiudly loaned to the curator for study ; in 

 all about twenty thousand shells." E. W. R. 



NEWSPAPER CONCHOLOGY. "One of the most beautiful shells 

 found along our coast is that of a large snail which climbs certain 

 trees and grows delicately fat on the young birds. The shell is as 

 thin as tissue paper, oddly curved and almost as transparent as the 

 finest glass. It belongs to the family of edible snails so prized as a 

 delicacy on the coast of France, and if properly prepared makes a 

 delicious dish. It is most abundant about New River inlet, where 

 the slight shake of a tree about sunset will bring a shower of them 

 to the ground. The breakage of a shell seems to be of little trouble 

 to the snail he repairs the damage and moves on." Jacksonville 

 (Fla.) Citizen. 



The JOURNAL DE CONCHYLIOLOGIE is to be published hereafter 

 under the direction of Messrs. H. Fischer, Ph. Dautzenberg and L. 

 Dolfus. We wish the new directors success equal to that enjoyed 

 or so many years by the late directors, Crosse and Fischer. 



