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NOTES. 



DR. A. E. ORTMANN reports excellent collecting of Unionidce in 

 Wise Co., Va., and southward. Some very interesting systematic 

 observations have been made. 



MR. H. F. CARPENTER of Edgevvood, Providence, R. I., has just 

 returned from a four months' trip to South America. 



MR. C. W. JOHNSON is about to leave Boston for a collecting 

 campaign in northern Vermont in the interests of the New England 

 faunal collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



At the Natural History Museum on November 29th, Mr. Edgar 

 Albert Smith, I. S. 0., Assistant-Keeper in the Zoological Depart- 

 ment, was presented by the Director, Dr. L. Fletcher, F. R. S., on 

 behalf of a large number of subscribers with a silver tea and coffee 

 service, a drawing room clock and a pair of field glasses. Mr. Smith 

 has served the Trustees of the British Museum for 45 years, having 

 joined the staff in 18G7. The subscribers included, besides his col- 

 leagues on the Museum staff, many friends outside who are inter- 

 ested in mollusca, the group of animals to which Mr. Smith's 

 scientific work has mainly been devoted. The Museiims Journal. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



CATALOGUE OF THE BRITISH SPECIES OF PISIDIUM (recent and 

 fossil) in the collections of the British Museum, with notes on those 

 of Western Europe. By B. B. Woodward, F. L. S., etc. Printed 

 by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1913. Pp. ix + 

 144 ; 30 plates. " Of all the genera of British non-marine mollusca 

 none has presented more difficulties to the student than Pisidium. 

 The small size of the shells, their great variability, the lack in most 

 cases of any striking external characteristics, as well as the confusion 

 in which the subject has been left by the various authorities, have 

 all contributed to these difficulties, with the result that the genus has 



