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the former. But there is no need of such a choice here, for both 

 quality and accurate data abound, as well as quantity, giving all that 

 the most thorough student might require. 



The purchase was made by the Ohio State University, principally 

 for .the shells, to place them in the room for the department of 

 zoology, and the fossils were a secondary consideration, hut when 

 Dr. Orton saw the fine number of specimens that were to be added 

 to the university collection as new species, as well as the great num- 

 ber of desirable duplicates, enabling numerous exchanges, he was 

 forced to remark, " Oh this makes us rich. This is material that 

 we had not counted upon." The assistant geologist has been busy 

 until the present time on the Lower Silurian specimens alone, or 

 only those found in the vicinity of Cincinnati, and in working over 

 them and cataloguing them for the museum he has entered over one 

 hundred species from that locality alone that had not formerly ap- 

 peared in the University collection. Of the Devonian fossils, found 

 near Columbus, there is an immense number; especially are the 

 fossil corals very fine and nicely cleaned, but it yet remains for 

 work in the near future to tell how many specimens may be found 

 among them that are new to the museum collection. 



There is the most complete set of carboniferous specimens, from 

 Carbon Hill, Hocking County, 0., that the world knows. It was 

 in this locality that Mr. Moores did most of his field work in palre- 

 ontology and made some of his most valuable discoveries. 



But the part of the collection with which Mr. Moores has more 

 recently done his entire scientific work is to be found now in the de- 

 partment of zoology. All possible varieties of shells from all over 

 the world have been collected, labelled and arranged bv this inde- 

 fatigable naturalist. These specimens vary from the beautiful pink 

 and green radiating " sun shell ""of the Atlantic coast to the plain 

 and lowly house of our ordinary, slowly plodding snail, or from the 

 thick, glossy and bright colored shell of the tropical region to that 

 of the more sombre hue of the arctics. 



We are indebted to the kindness of his daughter, Mrs. A. S. 

 Humphreys, for greater part of the above information.- C. W. J. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



PLANORBIS NAUTILKUS L. Referring to Mr. Walker's interest- 

 ing notes on this species in the February number of THE NAUTILUS, 

 I may say that a few were taken at Hamilton, Ontario, in 1889. In 



